Posted: 9:13 AM Does this sound like you? Two cups of coffee in the morning, a coffee break at 11 or so, another cup in the afternoon and a cup after dinner? That might be enough to interfere with sleep or even give some people the jitters, but it’s nowhere near an overdose. It may also be nothing compared to what some teenagers are consuming to deal with schoolwork or job pressures.
Posted: 9:41 AM Parents of students at Piedmont High School in Piedmont, California, received a letter from the principal last week alerting them to the existence of an extracurricular game among male varsity athletes involving the receipt of "score points" in exchange for sexual activities with female students.
Posted: 9:17 AM Republican Mitt Romney entered Monday night's debate on foreign policy with the goal of presenting himself as a competent, plausible alternative to President Barack Obama as commander in chief.
Posted: 3:16 PM The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it's investigating reports of five deaths and a non-fatal heart attack linked to highly caffeinated Monster Energy Drinks.
Posted: 3:11 PM It's a landslide for President Barack Obama - at least among people too young to vote.
Posted: 10:48 AM McDonald’s Canada is at it again, demystifying their french fry recipe “from the farm to all the way to the fryer.”
Posted: 10:29 AM The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen recalled 23 spray-on products Friday saying there was a risk they could catch fire on one's skin, after reports of five people being burned in the US and Canada.
Posted: 10:27 AM FedEx expects to ship 280 million packages between Thanksgiving and Christmas, up 13 percent from a year ago, thanks to consumers' growing fondness for shopping online.
Updated: 10:16 AM The State Fair of Texas - marked this year by the loss of the towering, cowboy-hat-wearing Big Tex in a fire - may surpass the all-time high spent in previous years on food and amusement rides.
Updated: 12:22 PM When the phrase "work week" is heard on sorority row, I want to cry. Besides recruitment, work week is the hardest task of a sweet, little, sorority girl’s life.
Posted: 8:26 PM President Barack Obama isn't talking about it. Neither is Mitt Romney. But come January, 163 million workers will feel a big tax bite regardless of who wins the election.
Posted: 10:38 AM The Texas unemployment rate has fallen sharply to 6.8 percent in September, down from 7.1 percent in the largest one-month drop in nearly 30 years.
Posted: 1:51 PM It's not only the schools: Some doctors are taking issue with Flamin' Hot Cheetos because they are leading to unnecessary emergency room visits.
Posted: 1:28 PM Some antidepressants are linked to a slight increased risk of bleeding stroke, according to a new analysis.
Posted: 12:04 PM An 80-year-old Connecticut woman has been charged with larceny and breach of peace after tearing down political signs that included an image of President Barack Obama with an Adolph Hitler-style mustache.
Posted: 10:09 AM Now that the dust has settled in the New Mexico desert where supersonic skydiver "Fearless Felix" Baumgartner landed safely on his feet, researchers are exhilarated over the possibility his exploit could someday help save the lives of pilots and space travelers in a disaster.
Posted: 9:58 AM Newsweek plans to end its print publication after 80 years and will shift to an online-only format starting in early 2013. Job cuts are expected.
Posted: 9:56 AM It's the latest snapshot of the growing burden of student debt and it's another discouraging one.
Posted: 9:51 AM The Alamo is under new management, and lawmakers want to know if the most iconic landmark in Texas is still in good hands.
Posted: 8:52 AM It's official: A giant, marine reptile that roamed the seas roughly 150 million years ago is a new species, researchers say.
Updated: 9:47 AM This week I’m bringing a little Mexicano flavor to our bebida y tapa (drink and appetizer in Spanish, learning new things here people!) with Beerita’s and Spicy Chicken Roll Ups.
Posted: 2:06 PM Canadian authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 15-year-old Amanda Todd, who made a heartbreaking video chronicling years of bullying in school and online.
Posted: 9:51 AM A previous owner of McDonald's restaurants in North Dakota is about $10,000 richer after selling a 20-year-old container of McJordan barbecue sauce to a buyer in Chicago.
Updated: 9:38 AM More than 1,000 puppeteers and public broadcasting supporters have signed on for a march on the National Mall in Washington three days before the election.
