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It's the season when yoga classes are cancelled and gyms go on holiday schedules, so to avoid the fitness consequences of all those Christmas parties, experts suggest making a workout plan and sticking to it.

A U.S. judge jailed a Mexican truck driver for 15 years and 8 months on Monday for his role in a conspiracy to smuggle drugs through a sophisticated tunnel to California from Mexico.

A quick transfer from one hospital to another with more sophisticated facilities can be a lifesaver for heart attack patients -- but quick transfers are a rarity in the U.S., researchers said Monday.

The racist tram woman who went on an obscene rant on a South London tram has been arrested, according to the British Transport Police.

As a third man, Zach Tomaselli, comes forward with details of sexual abuse by the former Syracuse head assistant coach, a phone conversation between first victim Bobby Davis and Fine's wife Laurie has come to light, revealing she knew of the abuse but felt powerless to stop it. Downplaying Davis' molestation as male companionship, the conversation paints a chilling picture of Fine's abuse.

Sarah Burton, Victoria Beckham and Stella McCartney proved to be the night's biggest winners at the British Fashion Awards.

Two brave Bronx firefighters came to the rescue of a teenage girl on Saturday after a mugger robbed the girl of a gold chain.

Police in riot gear closed in before dawn Monday on anti-Wall Street activists who defied a midnight deadline to vacate an 8-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall, but the police later pulled back.

Police in riot gear closed in before dawn Monday on anti-Wall Street activists who defied a midnight deadline to vacate an 8-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall, but the police later pulled back.

Christopher Valdez's 28-year-old mother and her boyfriend were charged on Sunday in connection with his death. Valdez died on Friday on his fourth birthday.

An ex-con was taken into custody after robbing two elderly men in the Stuyvesant Town section of Manhattan.

A Long Island man is suing a fertility clinic that impregnated his ex-girlfriend through in-vitro fertilization with sperm he alleges was stolen from him.

The American Library Association has denounced the dismantling the Occupy Wall Street library.

The mother of a 16-year-old teenager, who has been accused of participating in three killings associated with a job ad on Ohio's Craigslist, says her son is innocent and was manipulated by a pastor.

A woman from the Brownsville section of Brooklyn was allegedly stabbed by her own son on Sunday in front of her granddaughter, 5, and grandson, 1.

A power outage on Sunday left one woman dead after the backup generator failed to kick in at the Eastchester Rehab and Health Care Center in Pelham

A member of the New York City Police Department returning from the Dominican Republic cut his Thanksgiving vacation short on board his flight home Sunday. Officer Anibal Mercado, an 18-year veteran of the NYPD, subdued an unruly passenger on a Jet Blue flight 30,000 feet in the air after the man began verbally abusing two flight attendants and attacked another.

Your favorite food cart may soon get a letter grade to tell you just how clean it is. Queens State Senator Jose Peralta is planning to introduce a bill this week that will propose just that, according to various published reports.

Approximately 25 volunteers braved the rain and cold temperatures of winter in Kansas City, on Saturday, to help search the old Sam's Town Casino property and find new clues to help solve the mystery of Lisa Irwin's disappearance. Though the team of volunteers returned without significant discoveries, that of an old well, Kansas City Police believe, is worth investigation.

Quill.com will sell Dunder Mifflin branded paper thanks for a licensing deal from NBC, which will get six percent of all revenues for parent company NBC Universal, owned by Comcast Corp. The paper, priced higher than private label paper, will come with popular slogans from The Office including Our motto is, Quabity First and Get Your Scrant on.

Casey Anthony signs up for on-line Spanish classes.

In a tragic incident, Timothy Bolognani, 49, accidentally shot and killed his friend, Benjamin Birch, 39, while the two were out hunting for deer, in Vermont on Saturday.

A bar in south London has installed the world's first hands free urine-controlled video game.

From an aspiring Devon model to a renowned fashionista and style icon; Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is a well-known name in the fashion world.

In what must be termed a desperate attempt to find Michelle Parker, a 33-year-old mother of three who has been missing since Nov. 17, Orlando State police raided the residence of Parker's ex-fiancé's (Dale Smith) father. The raid was announced in an ABC report.

Grant Smith, 47, from Cottonwood Heights, Utah, was arrested for watching child pornography, onboard a domestic flight.

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters who have camped outside Los Angeles City Hall for weeks faced a midnight eviction deadline on Sunday with plans to throw a party they hoped might forestall a raid.

Retired Chinese basketball superstar Yao Ming venturing into a new world, has launched a wine collection in his own name in Shanghai.

Tributes are pouring in for Angie Dowds, the popular trainer, who jumped to her death last week at Beachy Head near Eastbourne, East Sussex, a notorious suicide spot.