The creators of the "Got Milk?" campaign are getting ready to make a big push to keep chocolate milk on children's minds and on school lunch menus, a plan that has some educators and obesity activists none too pleased. ...more

November 9, 2009

Descendants of American Indian leader Geronimo are suing the federal government, Yale University and a secret society, seeking custody of the Apache chief's remains. ...more

February 18, 2009

Here are the contestants for 2009 Florida Strawberry Festival queen: KAITLIN MACKENZIE ALLEN, daughter of Kenneth and Rhonda Allen. She is a junior at Plant City High School. She plans to attend the University of Florida or the University of Central Florida for pre-veterinarian studies. She is active with FFA. ...more

January 14, 2009

"How To Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth)," by Henry Alford (Twelve Books, $24) ...more

January 11, 2009

CHICAGO (AP) — Unique brain wave patterns, spotted for the first time in autistic children, may help explain why they have so much trouble communicating. ...more

December 1, 2008

I know how to get to paradise in this life. It lies atop a hill about 60 miles north of Rome where a gentleman-cardinal built a garden in the 16th century. His architects created it from water and stone, green leaves and vine. But the result is more than the sum of its parts. Villa Lante embodies the humanist ideals of the Italian Renaissance. ...more

October 19, 2008

All he wanted to do was watch baseball and drink beer all day. Sounds like a reasonable request. ...more

October 17, 2008

Drink a milkshake and the pleasure center in your brain gets a hit of happy - unless you're overweight. ...more

October 17, 2008

Rushing from school to soccer practice to piano lessons to science club meetings is no new thing for many Bay area parents. ...more

October 8, 2008

Rushing from school to soccer practice to piano lessons to science club meetings is no new thing for many Bay area parents. But there is a new wave of research that many might find surprising. Two studies into the lives of middle-class children buck conventional wisdom and conclude that they are not the overscheduled, frazzled generation that many believe them to be. In fact, it might be the parents who are overloaded, one researcher suggests. ...more

October 7, 2008