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Parents of incredibly obese children should lose custody for not controlling their kids' weight, a new commentary suggests.

If Republican Jeff Stone has anything to do with it, that's exactly what will happen. Stone has asked fellow members of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to support a motion to bring together officials from 13 counties to discuss the idea.

A violent storm struck Chicago and its suburbs Monday morning, resulting in power-outage for over 800,000 ComEd customers.

Tea Party sweetheart Michelle Bachmann has topped longtime Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney in a recent 2012 presidential election poll of the state of Iowa.

Authorities are puzzled as to how a stun gun made its way onto a JetBlue flight on Friday night.

According to the National Retail Federation, certain mainstays in the technology industry experienced the largest growth among all retailers in 2010.

The nation was shocked by the Casey Anthony verdict in which the jury said Casey was not guilty of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter. She was found guilty only in four counts relating to the lies she told the investigators.

City got you down? Need to get out for some fresh air? Here are 8 weekend escapes within 3 hours of NYC that will have you feeling refreshed and relaxed by Monday.

Today is the Fourth of July, which marks the celebration of the United States' 236th birthday. This day marks the attainment of freedom from the Great Britain and the emergence of a sovereign country.

The 4th of July, American Independence Day, celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, which declared US Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. But technically speaking, July 4th doesn't qualify to be the US Independence day.

Today, the Liberty Bell that hangs at the Liberty Bell Center on Market Street in Philadelphia will be symbolically tapped as per the tradition on every Independence Day.

The West Nile virus is back in the US in 2011.

Coney Island's famous hot dog eating contest will add the first ever women's only table this year.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has backtracked on one of the core tenets of his presidential campaign: that President Barack Obama has made a struggling U.S. economy even worse.

The stars of Jackass' released an official tribute video to their friend Ryan Dunn who recently passed away.

In the most memorable Fourth of July recall, here is the transcript, the significance and media excerpts of interpretations of President John F. Kennedy's 1962 speech in the Independence Hall.

At 89, she has power no less than a healthy young man's. In an amusing event, an 89-year-old woman caused dent to the car of two people who stole her friend's purse.

TMZ is reporting that the crash site where Ryan Dunn died last week has been vandalized.

Lawmakers called on federal agencies Tuesday to investigate the natural gas industry, responding to revelations that companies may have exaggerated potential profits and downplayed the risk and expense of harvesting natural gas.

Prankster Johnny Knoxville paid a touching tribute to his Ryan Dunn in his blog and said his world got 134 percent less funny without the Jackass star.

FBR Capital Markets remains positive on the Marcellus Shale as a catalyst for banks in Western Pennsylvania, following a recent investor field trip. Meanwhile, the brokerage upgraded its rating on shares of First Commonwealth Financial Corp. (FCF) to "outperform" from "market perform".