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When poverty or social mores forced a woman to abandon her infant at London's Foundling Hospital during the mid-18th century, a piece of fabric left with the child signaled the mother's intention to reclaim her baby.

One of the largest Czech festivals in the U.S. is taking place this weekend in a North Texas town still recovering from a tornado.

Saws and sledgehammers joined beer and barbecues - under covered porches - as a fixture of the first Memorial Day weekend at the Jersey shore since Superstorm Sandy roared through.

One patient with a history of substance abuse and suicidal thoughts was left alone in a waiting room inside the Atlanta VA Medical Center, where he obtained drugs from a hospital visitor and later died of an overdose.

St. John Baptist Church and the South Carolina Department of Social Services are teaming up to hand out free coupons to low-income people age 60 and older.

As spring turns into summer, millions of Americans will rush outdoors to light up a grill in celebration.

Nearby U.S. soybean futures fell on Friday for the first time in seven sessions and spot corn futures eased after two days of gains as investors squared positions ahead of the three-day U.S. Memorial Day holiday weekend.

A long-growing backlog of U.S. military veterans' disability claims, which has stoked congressional anger, has dipped in recent weeks, however tentatively.

A new children's book purports to "educate" the "next generation" about "God's plan" for families -- a plan that, according to author Amber Dee Parker, calls for heterosexual-only family units, reports The Advocate.com in a May 24 article.

Though the calendar says late May, the weather will feel more like late March or early April for people vacationing at the beach in New England, the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic this Memorial Day weekend.

Available daily: Carrot sticks, fruit, low-fat white milk, fat-free white milk and fat-free chocolate milk Irons Junior High School's lunch menu for the week of May 27 is as follows: Monday, May 27: No school Tuesday, May 28: Ham and cheese melt, steamed broccoli and fajita salad Wednesday, May 29: Hamburger on wheat bun and baked potato sticks ... (more)

Whether it's a special occasion or a Saturday night, for many Americans, dining out is one of life's great pleasures.

Calorie counting has long been touted as an effective tool for losing pounds or maintaining a healthy weight.

That was the message Thursday from the fast food chain's chief executive Don Thompson, who defended his company from attacks by the watchdog group, Corporate Accountability International, before a shareholders' meeting.

Flooding from the Cedar River will keep a state park in northeast Iowa closed through the Memorial Day holiday weekend.

Teens underestimated the calories in fast-food meals by 34%; parents of school-age children by 23%; adults by 20%, says lead researcher Jason Block of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.

When the terrorists struck on 9/11, Barrett Austin was in Mrs. Spearman's second-grade class here.

The protesters said Thursday they want Wendy's to sign an agreement to safeguard working conditions for Florida tomato pickers.

George Zimmerman's defense attorneys on Thursday released photos and text messages from 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's cellphone ahead of a hearing that will determine whether they can be used at Zimmerman's murder trial.

While some fast-food chains are required to provide calorie and other nutritional information to help customers make informed choices, kids who eat fast food at least twice a week are 50 percent less likely to use this information than kids who eat fast food less often, according to a new U.S. study.