Forget pretty ponies or science homework, Kate Hudson reveals in the new Elle that something else was on her teenage mind. "When I was a teenager, like, when I turned 16, I loved...

    Tim Duncan scores 19 points and grabs nine rebounds as San Antonio Spurs holds off Miami, 91-84, despite Dwyane Wade's eighth double-double of the season.

    Monica Wright scored 22 points and the No. 15 Cavaliers use a big second half to put away St. Francis (Pa.), 82-66, at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville.

    Carmelo Anthony scores 21 points despite suffering a "probable" fracture in his right hand in Denver's 135-115 victory over Indiana.

    Suns guard Jason Richardson is facing charges of driving under the influence in an American Indian tribal community near Phoenix.

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More Americans are burdened by chronic illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure, often having more than three at a time, and this has helped fuel a big rise in out-of-pocket medical expenses, a study released on Tuesday showed.

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Deep discounts failed to coax consumers to shop in December, but are sure to sap margins and will likely lead to a number of profit warnings when retailers report sales for the all-important holiday month this week.

    With sagging oil prices putting pressure on its own budget, the government of Venezuela has ended its three-year-old, $100 million program providing home heating-oil assistance for poor Americans in 23 states.

    JetBlue Airways and two officials with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration have paid $240,000 to settle charges that they illegally discriminated against an Iraqi-born U.S. resident who was barred from a flight until he covered his T-shirt, which carried an Arabic phrase, his attorney...

    With demand falling, the automaker will halt production at its Japanese factories for 11 days.

    Whether you prefer cutting-edge medicine or time-tested practices, these books cover the gamut of health care advances past, present and future.

    Trapped in a body that can't walk, a woman learns to appreciate reality.

    A seemingly meager diet of gruel, onions and bread may be a sufficient diet after all, researchers say.

    Richard Sault Jr. came into the world on Dec. 23 weighing a whopping 14.2 pounds.

    National health spending grew in 2007 at the lowest rate in nine years, mainly because prescription drug spending increased at the slowest pace since 1963.

    For the second time in a row, the Washington Post has selected KentuckyPipes Output ONLINE VIDEO: School's back in session in Southern Illinois. www.thesouthern.com.

    CARBONDALE — Carbondale Community Arts (CCA) announced the awarding of 11 grants in seven Southern Illinois Counties. The Southern Arts Fund is a re-granting program of the Illinois Arts Council through the Illinois Arts Council’s Community Arts Access Program.

    Louisville's WAVE-3 has won the 2008 Media Eclipse Award for local television for its 30-minute documentary on the 30th anniversary of the Affirmed-Alydar rivalry, it was announced yesterday.

    The Portland firehouse cost the city about $1.9 million to build, with $2.5 million for the Spring Street station. That money was appropriated in this year's capital projects budget.

    Kentucky ranks sixth in the nation in the rate of children who are neglected or abused, and seventh in the rate of children who die each year for those reasons, according to statistics from the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services.

    Researchers said that especially with young patients who were overweight but not yet obese, doctors might be missing a good chance to intervene.

    A new study reports that the heart attack victims who gasp are more likely to survive — especially if they are given chest compressions right away.

    Teenagers often use social networking sites like MySpace to post intimate personal information they come to regret.

    Shirley O. Corriher, a biochemist turned folksy food scientist, helps answer some kitchen curiosities.

    Over 1,500 US and international medical practices --"more than we ever dreamed," says Dr. Ed Wagner -- have adopted the Chronic Care Model. With Robert Wood Johnson Foundation support, he and Group Health colleagues developed this framework to redesign daily medical practice. The Chronic Care Model spurred the Medical Home to renew primary care. Now the largest roundup of evidence on the Model confirms that it really works, helping people stay healthier and get better care.

    AFP - England international striker Jermain Defoe is set to leave Portsmouth and rejoin Harry Redknapp at Tottenham, the London club said on Tuesday.

    AFP - Sir Alex Ferguson may have said it was "not realistic" for Manchester United to win a unique European and domestic quadruple but he still believes his squad can compete on four fronts.

    AP - The Texas Longhorns will be No. 1 on at least one ballot. It belongs to coach Mack Brown. Brown said he made up his mind after Colt McCoy hit Quan Cosby for a 26-yard touchdown with 16 seconds to play, lifting the third-ranked Longhorns to a 24-21 Fiesta Bowl victory over No. 10 Ohio State on Monday night. The stunning strike capped an 11-play, 78-yard drive that took only 1:42.

    This could be a Celtic slump. The team could be road-weary. Certainly, opponents are devising strategies to counteract the Boston stars, both the established and emerging ones.

    When, where: Tonight, 7, at Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte. TV, radio: CSN, WEEI (850 AM) Scoring: Gerald Wallace 16.9, Boris Diaw 15.6, Emeka Okafor, 13.8. Rebounding: Okafor 11, Wallace 7.7, Diaw, 7.5.

    The Chinese government has intensified its campaign against sexually-explicit Internet material by instructing companies including Google to curb the readily availability of pornography.

    After a tough 2008,the chip maker hopes to plant its Athlon Neo processor in a new class of laptops that splits the difference between netbooks and ultraportables.

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    AMD will launch mobile chips on Tuesday that it hopes will make thin laptops cheaper.

    Lawyers for exiled film director Roman Polanski are asking that a judge outside of Los Angeles be assigned to decide its motion to dismiss a 30-year-old sex offense case against him, claiming prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.

    AP - Although he calls himself a senator, Roland Burris has found little support among fellow Democrats in his effort to take the Senate seat to which embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appointed him.

    AP - Sponsors of California's voter-approved gay marriage ban accused Attorney General Jerry Brown on Monday of advancing a far-fetched legal theory to justify overturning it.

    Congressional leaders from both parties were optimistic Monday after meeting with President-elect Barack Obama to discuss his package of tax cuts and spending proposals aimed at reviving the beleaguered economy.

    A former South Carolina state trooper pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to using excessive force when he repeatedly kicked an arrested man in the head and neck following a high speed chase.

    Ukraine's gas company Naftogaz says Russia's Gazprom has slashed natural gas shipments to Europe by about two-thirds, while Balkan nations report a complete shut off of Russian gas.

    Joe Biden is heading to Southwest Asia just days before becoming vice president, a visit that signals the new administration's plans to make the troubled region an immediate priority.

    U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday will designate nine sites in three areas of the central Pacific as marine national monuments, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Monday.

    As the Israeli military surrounded densely populated Gaza City on Tuesday, it says it has killed 130 Hamas fighters since beginning a ground offensive over the weekend.

    Anti-Israel protests have sprung up across the world in response to the Israel's three-day attack on Gaza, aimed at rooting out Hamas militants responsible for earlier rocket attacks. Many world governments have condemned Israel's actions.