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As of Friday on the grounds of the University Of Michigan campus smoking will be banned. Smoking will only be allowed on perimeter sidewalks along public thoroughfares, and inside personal vehicles.  It will be enforced by voluntary compliance and peer support...

Alcohol poisoning is the predominant reason boys visit the Emergency Room twice as much during the 4th Of July Weekend.  It appears to be a high risk period for them.  The statistics were pretty striking for the holiday weekend period studied...

On this weeks Faith Hope And Love Songs I'll be talking with Gretchen Rubin, author of the #1 New York Times Best Selling Book, The Happiness Project. This was a fun read for me.  If you're already happy, somehow Gretchen Rubin can show you little ways that you can be happier...

Instead of making your waistline shrink, over years, diet soda can actually make your waistline swell!  Researchers from the American Diabetes Association along with the Texas Health Science Center, have found some pretty startling research on the correlation of diet soda and larger waistlines...

“Indoor tanning is out,” says the Canadian Dermatology Association, who’ve placed tanning beds squarely in their crosshairs with a new web PSA that shows young women singing their skin with a clothes iron, toaster and waffle iron. Ouch. The CDA hopes these exaggerated examples of frying one’s skin hammers home the dangers of tanning. According to their website:

Amber DeVoe moved from Zeeland to Boston soon after she graduated.  That was about 4 months ago.  None of Amber's friends have heard from her.  Amber's employer hasn't heard from her either.  The last date anyone has had contact with Amber was June 20th...

President Obama received a 1,500 word email from a teen who lost her daddy in the 9-1-1 attacks.  She told the President about how Justin's Never Say Never documentary really helped her get through it all.  The Prez picked up the phone, made a call and Bieber To The Rescue...

There's no chance it will strike Earth, NASA says, but a bus-sized asteroid is whizzing by Earth today just 7,600 miles away -- a close call on the cosmic scale. It's called asteroid "2011 MD" and it's nearest Earth just after noon, about 1 p.m., according to NASA estimates.

Apple is poised to launch a new iPhone product this fall, and the tech blogs are chomping at the bit. I must confess, I'm as curious as anyone else about the next big thing, and the new iPhone which will likely release this fall has the world's attention for a few reasons.

Laura Ling, the name may sound familiar.  She was the journalist who was taken captive by North Korea a few years ago.  She and Euna Lee stepped into some uncharted territory near North Korea and China.  She and Euna were arrested, put in jail, tried and sentenced to 12 years hard labor in a North Korean prison camp...

I know you thought this was a National Enquirer headline, right?  Well, it's not.  It's real,  And it's right here in Rockford, Michigan.  Okay the dog still sleeps in the bed, but the guy wears shoes to bed now.  Believe it or not?

Although my grandmother was killed by a drunk driver I still can feel for this girl.  She has got some demons that she is battling .  Anyone who has ever dealt with addiction knows how difficult it is to beat.  I am guessing she thinks she can handle it...