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A Christchurch family are devastated their 20-year-old cat was handed to the SPCA and killed before they had a chance to save it.
The Clarke family of Halswell had Krumpet for 20 years.
Last Tuesday, father Gwyn Clarke was shocked to come home from work and find a note in his letterbox saying their female ginger cat [...]

Fewer young people are involved in bullying, hooked on tobacco or spending as much time in couch-potato behaviour compared with a few years ago, says a new report on the physical and emotional health of Canadian youth. But while there’s reason for optimism, says the Public Health Agency of Canada’s report released Wednesday, certain [...]

The mother of an 11-year-old girl who died of untreated diabetes said Wednesday that she did not know her daughter was terminally ill as she prayed for her to get better.
Madeline Neumann died Sunday from an undiagnosed and treatable form of diabetes.
Her mother, Leilani Neumann, told The Associated Press she never expected her daughter, whom [...]

Dear Readers: If you’re working on a lifestyle change, like losing weight or quitting smoking, there are things you can do to improve your chances. Changing even minor things about ourselves can be difficult, so making a big change can seem impossible. Here are a few hints to [...]

At 8 or 9 years old, the typical American schoolgirl is perfecting her cursive handwriting style. She’s picking out nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in sentences, memorizing multiplication tables and learning to read a thermometer.
She’s a little girl with a lot to learn.
And yet, in increasing numbers, when girls this age run across the playground [...]

With millions of Latter-day Saints worldwide watching and listening live, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley was eulogized Saturday his red chair on the Conference Center dais empty and his casket resting in front of the pulpit handcrafted from a tree he planted decades ago.
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Utah’s current 70-cents-per-pack cigarette tax should be increased by more than 70 percent, with the $25 million or so increase in funds going to various health-improvement programs, including cancer screening and smoking cessation programs, a Utah legislator says.
Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, introduced a bill Wednesday [...]

The 10 children taken into care yesterday included one less than a year old. They were all found in overcrowded conditions, with 25 people crammed into a four-bed house. But after medical tests yesterday they were found to be in good health.Police say intelligence led them to raid 17 addresses in Slough in Berkshire, from [...]

When I rang the hospital, the receptionist asked if I could come in to meet the consultant. They were reviewing medical procedures, she said. I was welcome to bring my husband. “Would you like to spend an afternoon at the hospital reviewing medical procedures?” I asked Jeremy. “No, thank you,” he said.The consultant seemed even [...]

“We did everything together: shopping, hairdressers, you name it, we did it as a family unit. Garry loved doing jobs around the house with his daughter Amy. When they did the gardening, Amy and himself, he would call her his own ‘Charlie Dimmock’. They were like a double act.”The light has gone out of our [...]