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Gov. Cuomo and some of the state’s most powerful unions will kick off the new year with a massive rally Monday to push for a $15-an-hour statewide minimum wage. “Raising the minimum wage to $15 statewide would be a huge step forward in helping to lift over 2 million...

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger hands the ball to a fan after the Steelers defeated the Cleveland Browns 28-12 in an NFL football game, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, in Cleveland.

At the beginning e-cigarettes looked like traditional cigarettes but designs are evolving.

The OFCC also released its top 10 films of 2015: “Spotlight”, “Mad Max: Fury Road“, “Brooklyn”, “Ex Machina”, “The Big Short”, “Carol“, “The Revenant”, “Inside Out”,...

“It’s really hard to tell somebody what they can and can’t do with their own personal property, but at the same time you do have people who are searching for guns that are supposedly off-record”, said Davis.

He assumed it came from outside, but after they lifted up the mattress, they discovered dozens of bed bugs.

The Change4Life campaign follows revelations that four-to-10 year olds consume an estimated 5,500 sugar cubes a year (22kg), weighing the same as an average five-year-old.

A baby girl and her brother are born three minutes apart at a San Diego hospital – just before and after the New Year, making them born in different years.

OR pharmacists have gotten approval from state officials to prescribe birth control pills to qualifying women.

The 8-week-old kitten that was dyed indigo was found with 20 deep puncture wounds and dropped off at a San Jose rescue shelter. Following the rescue, Smurf was given the gift of love and attention, and the kitten’s story is bringing the problem of animal abuse to light,...

Some opposition to the order believe homeless people have a right to choose to freeze and die in the street if it is their wish.

Naturally, for new mothers, there are apps that will help with caring for an infant. The app that is able to tell what your baby’s crying means was developed by a team of Taiwanese researchers.

The new law prohibiting people under 21 from buying cigarettes also includes statewide restrictions on using e-cigarettes in restaurants and other places that already ban smoking.

The study, using mice, found that refined sugar and fructose, in particular, had an effect on a metabolic process called 12-LOX. High fructose diets spurred the processed known as 12-LOX, which contributes to the spread of cancer cells.

Trainers say people are excited to get in the gym in January, but the problem is, most of those same people will be gone in just a few months. “Everyone’s New Year’s resolution is to work out and go to the gym but no one follows through with it”.