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Summer is the season to be outside; it's a great time to work out, play, and relax in the sunshine. However, it's also the time of year when overheating, heat stroke, and heat exhaustion can take their tolls. Any of those can lead to injuries and potentially can be fatal, especially if body temperature exceeds 106 degrees F (41 C). If you are able to recognize the warning signs and take preventative measures, then you can reduce the risk while enjoying the weather. To start with it's a good idea to follow these steps to prevent overheating: Drink plenty of water & fluids Use shaded and cooled areas throughout the day Take breaks to allow yourself to cool down & regulate your body...

Lane County is releasing criminals both young and old because of budget cuts. Earlier this week, the county released 100 adult inmates from its jail in Eugene. And now, The Register-Guard newspaper reported (http://is.gd/IYcmMw ), the county is set to free half the teenagers in its youth detention facility before their scheduled release dates. Sixteen county employees worked their last day at the Juvenile Justice Center on Friday. They are the latest to lose their jobs in budget reductions that will...

The process for injured Mississippi workers getting insurance payments will become more restrictive. Dyslexic students will be able to transfer to other public or private schools and have the state pay for it. And AT&T will be relieved of obligations to hook up phone service to certain customers. Those are among the new Mississippi laws that come into force Sunday, with the start of the state's 2012-2013 budget year. Gov. Phil Bryant signed more than 400 bills passed by the 2012 Legislature. Some became law with his signature. Others pertaining to changes in voting and elections await...

By Associated Press Comments Brighton Township- Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a man at a Livingston County gun club. WHMI-FM and WDIV-TV report that the shooting occurred about 2 p.m. at the Livingston Conservation & Sports Association in Brighton Township, northwest of Detroit. Livingston County Sheriff Bob Bezotte says a man told investigators that two friends were at the club when a gun one was using jammed. As the man worked to unjam the gun, it fired, striking his friend in the head. The victim died at the scene. No charges have been filed. Tweet Email Print Share LinkedIn Tumblr StumbleUpon Reddit Del.icio.us Digg A A A A --> Join the Conversation...

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By The Detroit News Comments Lance Parrish returns to the town where he helped the Tigers to a world championship in 1984 when he is a featured guest at the 25th Annual Fr. Vincent Welch Memorial Dinner, set for 6 p.m. July 17 at the American Polish Cultural Center in Troy. Parrish was a dynamic, game-breaking catcher for the Tigers during their 1980s heyday, when they fashioned the best record in baseball. He will receive the 2012 Hank Aguirre Memorial Award for his baseball legacy and for his commitment to the community at-large. Parrish, 56, was an eight-time All-Star during his 19 seasons in the big leagues. He won three Gold Gloves for his defense, and six Silver Sluggers as the top...

LUSAKA – Former U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Lusaka Saturday. Bush is traveling to Zambia and Botswana this week to...

By Mattias Karen Associated Press Comments Philipp Kohlschreiber, right, shakes hands with Lukas Rosol of the after defeating him during their third-round match at Wimbledon on Saturday. (Julian Finney/Getty Images) Wimbledon, England- Two days after his stunning upset of Rafael Nadal, Lukas Rosol returned to reality. Gone was the Centre Court crowd, the massive TV audience and the unique atmosphere of playing on tennis' biggest stage. Gone, also, was the level of tennis that turned the previously little-known Rosol into an overnight sensation. The 26-year-old Czech player, who looked like a star in the making when he overpowered Nadal in a five-set victory in the second round, on Saturday...

By Steven Wine Associated Press Comments Serena Williams celebrates a point against Zheng Jie during a third-round match at Wimbledon on Saturday. (Anja Niedringhaus/Associated Press) Wimbledon, England- While watching Serena Williams come from behind at Wimbledon, older sister Venus sat in the front row stifling a yawn. Nothing to worry about. Venus was correct - barely. Serena hit a Wimbledon-record 23 aces, held every service game and narrowly escaped an upset bid by Zheng Jie, winning 6-7 (5), 6-2, 9-7 in the third round Saturday. Williams, who erased all six break points she faced, served three times to stay in the match and held each time at love. She was pushed to deuce serving in the...

Ian O'Riordan, in Helsinki ATHLETICS:�A rainy night in Helsinki, not ideal conditions for championship performances, but no excuses from Paul Hession after his 200 metres final at European Championships. It wasn't just the track being slippery when wet but running in lane one was always going to present an added challenge - and so it proved as Hession came home eighth, his 21.27 seconds some distance off his season best. Yet again the tight bend proved treacherous - more so given the rain - and Hession again stepped wide, but...

By Doug Ferguson Associated Press Comments A worker uses a chainsaw to clear a tree that fell onto the 14th fairway at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., on Saturday. (Patrick Semansky/Associated Press) Bethesda, Md.- Tiger Woods stepped out of the clubhouse at Congressional and into a strange new world of quiet Saturday. No one called out his name. No one pushed against the ropes and held out a cap for him to sign. No one was there. The third round of the AT&T National was closed to spectators and volunteers for safety reasons after a powerful wind storm left large trees upended across the golf course. Mark Russell, the PGA Tour's vice president of rules and competition, could not...

By Steven Wine Associated Press Comments Wimbledon, England- While watching Serena Williams come from behind at Wimbledon, older sister Venus sat in the front row stifling a yawn. Nothing to worry about. Venus was correct - barely. Serena hit a Wimbledon-record 23 aces, held every service game and narrowly escaped an upset bid by Zheng Jie, winning 6-7 (5), 6-2, 9-7 in the third round Saturday. Williams, who erased all six break points she faced, served three times to stay in the match and held each time at love. She was pushed to deuce serving in the final game but closed out the victory with a volley winner, then hopped in glee on the Centre Court grass. "I just wanted to get through that...

He was the scientist behind Europe’s largest stem cell clinic, a centre that promised miracle treatments for incurable illnesses from Parkinson’s disease to cerebral palsy. Dr Cornelis Kleinbloesem, right, has been accused of spending funds that belonged to patients and investors in his clinic. He is understood to have bought a £320,000 yacht, top, and expensive cars sit on the drive of his luxurious home, above Photo: DPA By Robert Mendick, Chief reporter 6:27PM BST 30 Jun 2012 Except that the XCell-Center, founded and run by Dr Cornelis Kleinbloesem, was charging patients — many of them British — tens of thousands of pounds for treatments that were clinically...

By Ian Deitch Associated Press Comments Jerusalem- Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who clung throughout his life to the belief that Israel should hang on to territory and never trust an Arab regime, has died. He was 96 years old. Israeli media said he died at a nursing home in Herzliya Saturday, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement mourning Shamir's death. Shamir served as prime minister for seven years, from 1983-84 and 1986-92, leading his party to election victories twice, despite lacking much of the outward charm and charisma that characterizes many modern politicians. Barely over five feet tall and built like a block of granite, Shamir...

By Mattias Karen Associated Press Comments Wimbledon, England- Two days after his stunning upset of Rafael Nadal, Lukas Rosol returned to reality. Gone was the Centre Court crowd, the massive TV audience and the unique atmosphere of playing on tennis' biggest stage. Gone, also, was the level of tennis that turned the previously little-known Rosol into an overnight sensation. The 26-year-old Czech player, who looked like a star in the making when he overpowered Nadal in a five-set victory in the second round, on Saturday again looked very much like a player ranked 100th and making his first Wimbledon appearance. He lost in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (6) to Philipp Kohlschreiber, a...

By Associated Press Comments Key West, Fla.- Endurance swimmer Penny Palfrey crossed the halfway mark Saturday as she pushed through the Florida Straits, enduring jellyfish stings but otherwise encountering perfect conditions in her attempt to become the first woman to swim unassisted more than 100 miles from Cuba to Florida. A GPS tracking device on Palfrey's support boat a few meters away from the swimmer shows she reached the halfway point near midday, according to her website. Palfrey was swimming steady and strong and reported no physical complaints. She had finished 69 miles around 3 p.m. Saturday, breaking her personal best when she swam 67 miles between Little Cayman and Grand Cayman...

Posted: June 30, 2012 Sleep apnea in and of itself is a hassle for sufferers, but the condition is often co-morbid with others, such as obesity or diabetes. But sleep apnea that is present along with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, or PCOS, can present additional problems for those affected by the disorders. A study scheduled to be presented at The Endocrine Society’s 94th Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas explored the co-existence of sleep apnea and PCOS, and found a link to prediabetes. Sleep apnea is defined as experiencing breathing interruptions during sleep, which can inhibit a sufferer’s ability to achieve a full night’s sleep, as well as affecting the sleep of those who...

Comments Grand Rapids- A memorial to Michigan soldiers, sailors and airmen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is being sculpted in a West Michigan studio, despite low donations. Only $50,000 of about $400,000 needed for the Michigan Fallen Warrior Memorial has been raised, The Grand Rapids Press reported Saturday. The bronze, larger-than-life-sized memorial features three soldiers and is being sculpted by artist Mic Carlson in his Grand Rapids studio. Carlson is getting paid as donations from the project trickle in, according to the newspaper. The work debuted last year at ArtPrize, a competition that draws artists from around the world to downtown Grand...

A Pittsburgh boy has learned the hard way that a challenge sweeping the Internet is risky business. The 12-year-old, who's identity has not been released, sustained second-degree burns recently after his twin brother and a friend, on a dare, put salt in the form of a cross on his back and pressed ice on top of it. The boys were taking...

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By Jessica Gresko Associated Press Comments Zoom A tree toppled by severe storms sits atop a car in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood on Saturday. (Jessica Gresko / Associated Press) Washington- Violent storms swept across the eastern U.S., killing at least 12 people and knocking out power to millions of people on a day that temperatures across the region are expected to reach triple-digits. The Mid-Atlantic region had already been experiencing 100-degree temperatures before Friday evening's violent storms. More than 3 million are without power - and without air conditioning - as crews work to clear downed tree limbs and restore electricity. The storms were blamed for the deaths of six...

A terrible headache probably isn't the sensation people are hoping for when they turn on a porn video. But unfortunately for a 24-year-old bachelor in India, that's exactly what has happened for the last two years whenever he tried to watch an X-rated movie. According to a case study on the man,...

Philip Reid, at Royal Portrush As wet and miserable as Saturday's third round of the Irish Open was from a meteorological point, P�draig Harrington - for one - ensured the massive crowds had sufficient reasons to keep their vocal chords active. He produced two birdies in his closing five holes in shooting a 72, for 10-under-par 206, which left him just two shots adrift of 54-hole leader Jamie Donaldson. The dark clouds which swept in off the north Atlantic, dousing the links for much of the morning and into the afternoon, made life extremely difficult for players and spectators alike. And,...

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Donegal 0-12 Tyrone 0-10:�A superb injury time save from Donegal goalkeeper Paul Durcan after Martin Penrose shot through traffic saw the Ulster champions return to this year's final after an absorbing encounter. The superb conditioning of Jim...

All Ireland SHC qualifiers:�Limerick and Wexford both advanced to the next round of the qualifiers, with victories over Antrim and Carlow respectively, despite giving vastly contrasting performances. Limerick defeated Antrim by 8-26 to 1-15 at the...

A leading Kiwi eye surgeon will be awarded rare honorary residency of the Cook Islands for voluntary work over the past 20 years. Auckland Eye consultant Dr Paul Rosser has visited the islands...

News that New Zealand teenager Emily Longley's killer is to appeal against his conviction came as no surprise to her grieving family. Emily's father, Mark Longley, of Whakatane, said he had been warned to expect the appeal from her killer Elliot Turner, 20. That...

The Unites States media went into a frenzy when their Supreme Court decided by a 5-4 vote this week that the Democratic Party's health reforms were lawful. Now known as Obamacare, the reforms were passed two years ago by both Houses of Congress and signed into law by their president. In this country, although it's one of our favourite pastimes to bag the public system, most of us, when we have the misfortune to use it, are pleasantly surprised at how good it really is. It's barbaric that the world's richest country doesn't have a public health system available to all its citizens. Having only private health insurance without any public alternative is mystifying when these...

STRUGGLING solarium operators are flooding online trading sites with unwanted sunbeds, prompting calls for a government buyback of the machines in a bid to prevent dangerous in-home tanning. The powerful units are being sold for as little as $200 as the industry faces collapse due to tough regulations restricting the use of solariums and growing public awareness of the cancer-causing risk of the machines. For people under the age of 35, using sunbeds - which emit ultraviolet radiation through fluorescent lamps - increases their risk of forming a melanoma by 98 per cent. There are fears that a rise in the popularity of in-home sunbeds will...

Tennis:�Four-time Wimbledon Champion Serena Williams is through to the fourth round following an epic battle with China's Jie Zheng, a three set tussle before the American squeezed home 6-7, 6-2, 9-7. Her victory was underpinned by her serve, a fact illustrated in Williams' setting a new tournament record of 23 aces. Her opponent managed one. Zheng, produced a superb performance but the handicap of not...

Mississippi soon could become the only U.S. state without an abortion clinic as a new law takes effect this weekend. Critics say it would force women in one of the country's poorest states to drive hours to obtain a constitutionally protected procedure or carry unwanted pregnancies to term. Top officials say limiting abortions is exactly what they have in mind. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant says he wants Mississippi to be "abortion-free." The law takes effect Sunday. Abortion rights supporters...

By Doug Ferguson Associated Press Comments Bethesda, Md.- Even with Tiger Woods in the hunt, Saturday figures to be awfully quiet at Congressional for the third round of the AT&T National. Because of a powerful wind storm that uprooted dozens of trees, including a 75-foot tree that crashed across the 14th fairway, the tournament was closed to spectators and volunteers for safety reasons. Mark Russell, the PGA Tour's vice president of rules and competition, could not remember another time when a tour event did not allow fans. "It's too dangerous out here," Russell said. "There's a lot of hanging limbs. There's a lot of debris. It's like a tornado came through here. It's just not safe." The...

WRIGHT CITY • The seasoned traveler approaches an occupied picnic table at one of Missouri's busiest rest areas. She is 80, has gray hair and wears a T-shirt with a bear on it. A faint accent is barely heard over the growl of westbound traffic on Interstate 70. "Excuse me, please, may I?" says Eleonore Brammer, placing a seat cushion on a bench. She pulls rye bread and a slice of ham out of a sack, then apologizes for using her finger to spread mustard. The knife is in her pickup, along with her walker. Brammer rides alone in a brown 1992 Ford F-150 with a small camper shell on the back where she sleeps. She often sings songs she learned before fleeing East Germany many years ago, like the...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi could soon become the only state without an abortion clinic because of a new law taking effect this weekend. Critics say the law would force women to drive hours across the state line to obtain a constitutionally protected procedure, or could even force some to carry unwanted pregnancies to term. Top officials, including the governor, say limiting the number of abortions is exactly what they have in mind. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant frequently says he wants Mississippi to be "abortion-free." "If it closes that clinic, then so be it," Bryant said as in April as he signed the law, which takes effect Sunday. Abortion rights supporters have sued, asking a judge...

By Associated Press Comments London- Police say a hawk being used to patrol skies and deter pigeons from the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships has been stolen. London police said Saturday that Rufus, the Harrier hawk, was stolen with its cage between Thursday night and Friday morning from a car parked on a private driveway in the southeastern suburb of Wimbledon. The company that owns the hawk had left a rear window of the car open for ventilation, police say. The hawk, a family pet, flies above the tennis lawns every day, scaring away smaller birds such as pigeons that could distract the players and bother the audience. Hawks have been used to clear the skies above Wimbledon during the...

NEW YORK Peter Greenberg wants you to travel like a local, not a tourist, and he's written a new series of guidebooks to help. The "Like a Local" series is debuting with books on New Orleans, the Caribbean, Miami and the Keys, Buenos Aires, and Cuba. E-book versions are out this month, and the next five titles in the series — New York, London, Peru, Washington, D.C., and the "Great Cities of Europe" — are due in April 2013. What makes the "Like a Local" books different from traditional guidebooks, says Greenberg, who is travel editor for CBS News, is that they rely on recommendations from people who live in those cities about where to go and what to do and see. "How many of my...

Over aromatic plates of Dosa (fermented lentil crepes served with chili based sambas), a typically Rajastani breakfast, Balandu Singh decides to share a secret. The warden of India's Rathambore National Park, which was once a royal hunting preserve and is now home to 40 protected tigers, plus a wealth of other mammals, birds and reptiles, Singh leans back in his chair and toys with his prodigious mustache. "As far as we know," he says, "this has never happened before in nature." Aglow with excitement, he tells us about a male tiger who has been tracked raising his cubs after their mother died unexpectedly. "He's taken them on. He's teaching them to be tigers." And with that, he grins...

ANDERS MEANDERS Finding Amtrak station is trip in itself Have you ever taken an Amtrak train trip out of Austin? Were you even aware we had an Amtrak station? And, if so, can you find it? I went off looking for it last week so I could get tickets for an upcoming Colorado train trip, and I had one heck of a time locating it. After much Googling and some false starts and growling about poor signage, I can tell you how to get there: From Congress Avenue, drive west on Cesar Chavez Street. Just after you pass under Lamar Boulevard, a little street called B.R. Reynolds Drive pops up on your right. Turn onto it, drive up a hill and you'll come to a little street that jogs off to the left with a...

AMARILLO They rumble through the Texas Panhandle by the thousands to get to New Mexico and Colorado, and now, recreational vehicles have their own museum, right off Interstate 27. Jack Sisemore and his son, Trent, opened the RV Museum this spring behind their Amarillo RV dealership, Sisemore Traveland, at 4341 Canyon Drive. It showcases RVs they have bought and lovingly restored over the years, just because they wanted to. The museum's free, and they won't even try to talk you into buying an RV while you're there. (They didn't me, anyway.) Inside a 6,000-square-foot metal building, the RVs are staged with picnic tables and other camping paraphernalia, so that the museum has the surreal feel...

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Patrick Somerville's "The Cradle" (2009) was a fine first novel telling two touching stories of familial love. But "This Bright River" is stylistically superior to and more ambitious in its portrayal of family love, pain and redemption. Ben Hanson and Lauren Sheehan, both in their early 30s, try to rebuild their broken lives after returning to St. Helens, Wis., where they grew up. Ben is a nerdy rebel. Imaginative, intelligent, but mostly directionless, he has trouble with drugs and alcohol and doesn't understand the power of money. He squandered a million-dollar...

Following a brief appearance in a club hurling game in Kildare, ex-Cavan footballer Seanie Johnston is now eligible to face Meath in the Leinster senior football...

By Jessica Gresko Associated Press Comments Washington- Violent storms are being blamed for the deaths of at least nine people and widespread power outages. Many in the eastern U.S. are facing triple-digit temperatures without electricity - and without air conditioning. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said six deaths had been blamed on the storm in that state. Another was killed by a falling tree in Maryland, while two others were killed by a falling tree in New Jersey. In addition to the heat, officials say cell phone coverage is spotty. Many residents were asked to conserve water because sewage stations had been without power for a time. And authorities cautioned people to drive carefully...

By Lauren Abdel-Razzaq The Detroit News Comments Purchase Image Sen. Debbie Stabenow spoke to about a dozen people at Eastern Market, Saturday. (Lauren Abdel-Razzaq / The Detroit News) Detroit -A discount food program being used at Detroit's Eastern Market may soon be used as a nationwide model to promote healthier eating in low-income communities. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, announced Saturday that legislators are examining the Double Up Food Bucks program at the market for use in other cities. The program allows Bridge Card users to get a dollar-for-dollar match for funds spent on buying fresh produce at Eastern Market. The program, in its fourth year, also benefits the farmers and...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott now says Florida will do nothing to comply with President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and will not expand its Medicaid program. The announcement is a marked changed after the governor recently said he would follow the law if it were upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. "We're not going to implement Obamacare in Florida, we're not going to expand Medicaid because we're going to do the right thing," Scott said Friday night during an interview on Fox News. He also said the Medicaid expansion would cost Florida taxpayers $1.9 billion a year, but it's unclear how he arrived at that figure. Emails sent to Scott's...

EIGHT out of 10 suffer from allergies with a wide variety of causes including food, pets, dust, humid weather, etc. Most of the sufferers are women and their allergy is usually triggered by food, fatigue, stress, headaches and other discomforts. Whether you call it food allergy or food sensitivity, the "attack" is usually caused by cross contamination. But if you're under stress, it can also trigger allergy or rash-like patches on skin....

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. • CNN says it has seen emails showing Penn State university former president Graham Spanier agreed not to take allegations of sex abuse against...

With the health law upheld by the Supreme Court, the state that boasts the largest number of uninsured is bent on losing that distinction. Peter Lee, charged with creating California's online state insurance market, says his goal is to make shopping for health insurance as easy "as buying a book on Amazon or shoes on Zappos." At a time when only 14 states and the District of Columbia have even authorized the legal framework for the state-based insurance markets called for in the law, California is sprinting towards the law’s October 2013 deadline to begin enrolling the uninsured. Along the way, state officials are betting they’ll become a national role...