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The owners of a suburban Phoenix restaurant planned to reopen Tuesday night after it temporarily shut its doors following an embarrassing reality TV experience.

Hannah Aldridge has music running through her veins. Learn more about her before she performs May 30.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is learning to eat lean and mean this week. The freshman lawmaker is taking the 'SNAP' challenge, living off the equivalent of what Connecticut families receive in food stamps.

After yet another weekend filled with flood warnings and event cancellations throughout the metro area, Alpharetta is in for some sunny skies early this week and this Memorial Day weekend, though rain will be likely on Wednesday.

Federal and state officials are looking into so-called "pension advances," deals they say are digging retirees and military veterans deep into debt, while also putting individual investors at risk.

Lake Winnepesaukah is putting the final touches on its new water park SoakYa in time for a Memorial Day opening at 1 p.m. The park was originally scheduled to open Friday, May 24.

A glass microscope slide with a trace of the late Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi's blood is among an array of memorabilia due to be sold at auction Tuesday in England.

Jurors will begin deliberations Tuesday to determine whether the death penalty should be an option for sentencing Jodi Arias, convicted of murdering her lover in 2008.

"Beautiful Creatures" is a Southern Gothic "Romeo and Juliet" set in a South Carolina town so small there isn't even a Starbucks -- just 12 churches, one library where books are banned and people who are "too stupid to leave or too stuck to move." The type of place where saying "Bless your heart" actually means "fuck you." Based on the first ... (more)

Residents of a western Mexico area who endured months besieged by a drug cartel cheered the arrival of hundreds of Mexican soldiers Monday.

People who falsely claim they have received a military medal in order to obtain money or government benefits could face up to a year in jail under legislation that easily passed the House Monday.

More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for injuries or illness stemming from sexual abuse in the military, and 4,000 sought disability benefits, underscoring the staggering long-term impact of a crisis that has roiled the Pentagon and been condemned by President Barack Obama as ""shameful and disgraceful." A Department of Veterans Affairs ... (more)

The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects.

Reno police are searching for leads in the stabbing death of a boy during a fight near a fast-food restaurant.

More than six months after superstorm Sandy caused unprecedented damage to the Jersey Shore, the beaches will be open in time for Memorial Day weekend.

If you love food and exploring new places to eat, or want to find out what eateries are coming and going, we have latest restaurant and other "foodie" news from throughout the Milwaukee area.

Jodi Arias returns to court Monday for the continuation of the penalty phase of her trial after being convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of her one-time lover as jurors consider a sentence of life in prison or execution.

BOULDER, Colo. - Ethan Welty is thinking ahead to harvest time as he cycles through tidy Boulder streets pointing out apple, plum and mulberry trees on public and private land.

Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.

In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown.