Family Life Wire

Environmental groups fighting fracking say Gov. Andrew Cuomo's order for a new public health study is a sign he may be backing off his plans to allow the hotly debated extraction process. Read more »

Maria Ybarra's trailer is one of two left on the property that for over two decades was home to Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez and farmworkers like Ybarra who made up his movement. Read more »

Health officials say there may be hundreds or even thousands of people exposed to a rare form of fungal meningitis, leaving those who received steroid shots linked to the outbreak to anxiously wait. Read more »

When Patti Dittburner thinks about the Stonewall Jackson Hotel in San Benito, she envisions a project to revive that city's decaying landmark to the glamour of its glory days more than 50 years ago. Read more »

How old is too old to sob like a little girl at "E.T. — the Extra-Terrestrial"? Not 40, apparently. Read more »

What do such disparate cultural icons as the Chrysler Building, the Dunkin' Donuts logo and Big Bird have in common? Read more »

After Hy Eisman completed Army basic training after the end of World War II, he was sent to Camp Pickett, Va., where he was assigned to a hospital unit and drew cartoons for the base newspaper. Read more »

Old Pueblo Vapor Lounge is the latest local business to offer an electronic alternative to conventional cigarettes. Read more »

By the time Michael Chai spotted the other boat bearing down on his craft, it was too late to shout a warning to the captain. Read more »

Daredevil stuntman David Blaine lit up New York's Pier 54 on Friday for his latest high voltage feat. Read more »

Adonne Khare's carbon pencil on paper drawing "Elephants" isn't just a massive display of the lumbering yet beautiful mammals. It's a long look — spanning across a 13-foot-by-8-foot canvas... Read more »

Apple's new maps app came out the day I started a 2,243-mile road trip through four states. As complaints about it trickled in and Apple's CEO apologized, I was left wondering whether people were... Read more »

A week after her annual steroid shot for back pain, Janet Russell began getting unbearable headaches. A fever followed. Doctors admitted her to the hospital, but couldn't say what was wrong. Read more »

A giant Elvis and a child in a wheelchair are among the new shapes set to take part in an annual hot-air balloon festival in New Mexico. Read more »

Tourism officials want to attract visitors to what they're calling undiscovered South Carolina — rural areas away from such well-known tourist destinations as Charleston, Myrtle Beach and... Read more »

A deadly meningitis outbreak rose to 47 cases in seven states Friday, as clinics scrambled to notify patients across the country that the shots they got for back pain may have been contaminated... Read more »

For the first time, a woman is running for the leadership of the political party of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful Islamist group. Sabah el-Saqari says she wants to increase female... Read more »

It'll be springtime for Mel Brooks when the American Film Institute presents him with its highest honor, the Life Achievement Award. Read more »

Leona Lewis understands that One Direction fans are protective of their lads. Read more »

The fungus blamed for causing a meningitis outbreak in several states is mostly everywhere. It floats in the air, indoors and outdoors — and only very rarely makes people sick. Read more »

Mitt Romney's Medicare plan won't try to control costs by limiting the payments that future retirees would use to buy private health insurance, aides say. Budget experts are questioning how the... Read more »

Olive Garden is tossing out its famous "When You're Here, You're Family" slogan to cater to a more modern lifestyle. Read more »

Four patients of Minnesota pain clinics that used a steroid linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak showed symptoms of the disease and were told to be tested, the group's CEO said Friday. Read more »

Kansas can continue to limit pain and suffering compensation awards in personal injury lawsuits to $250,000, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday, upholding a lower court decision that slashed... Read more »

A huge prisoner-of-war camp in what was then Manchuria was set up to provide skilled workers at a factory complex that made tools and machine and airplane parts for Japan during World War II. Read more »