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Studies more firmly tie sugary drinks to obesity

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 21st

By MARILYNN MARCHIONEAP Chief Medical Writer New research powerfully strengthens the case against soda and other sugary drinks as culprits in the obesity epidemic. A huge, decades-long study involving more than 33,000 Americans has yielded the first clear proof that drinking sugary beverages

Review: iPhone evolves into jewel-like '5'

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 21st

By PETER SVENSSONAP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) - If you run your finger over one of the joints where plastic and metal meet on the rim of the iPhone 5, you feel just the slightest hint of the seam. The materials have been machined to blend into one another with astonishing, jewel-like

Recalls this week: Water bottles, elevators

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 21st

By The Associated Press A line of children's water bottles sold at H&M stores that pose a choking hazard are among this week's recalled products. Other recalls include utility vehicles with potential fuel leak problems and residential elevators with faulty doors. Here's a more

Asian energy boom threatens Montana ranches

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 21st

By MATTHEW BROWNAssociated Press ROUNDUP, Mont. (AP) - The big mining companies first came knocking on Ellen Pfister's door in the 1970s, ready to tap the huge coal deposits beneath her family's eastern Montana ranch. Pfister and others successfully fended them off, and as the coal

Romneys paid $1.94 million federal taxes for 2011

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 21st

By TOM RAUMAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney, one of the wealthiest candidates ever to seek the presidency, paid nearly $2 million in federal taxes on $13.7 million in income that he and his wife reported last year, his U.S. returns showed Friday. That came to an effective tax rate

Romneys paid $1.94 million federal taxes for 2011

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 21st

Philly developer ticks off city by cleaning up lot

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 21st

By JOANN LOVIGLIOAssociated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) - There's a lot of trouble brewing next to a coffee house in a fast-developing neighborhood. Ori Feibush, a real estate developer, has turned a trash-strewn city-owned lot - vacant for roughly 30 years - into a welcoming spot for customers

Obama declares Chimney Rock a national monument

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 21st

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) - A dramatic rock formation in southwestern Colorado that was home to ancestors of the Pueblo Indians 1,000 years ago now has protection as a national monument - a potential boost for tourism in a state key to the presidential election. President Barack Obama signed a

Obama declares Chimney Rock a national monument

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 21st

DC sets bar for firing teachers over performance

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 21st

By BEN NUCKOLSAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Tough new teacher evaluations led to a strike this month in Chicago, but in the District of Columbia, such evaluations are "business as usual." Comprehensive teacher evaluations that take into account student performance are a central part of