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Diet, Diet on the Wall, Which Is the Healthiest of Them All? 09/11/2014 12:00am • You may have heard the headlines that screamed out this past week about a study from New Orleans on diet choices. Come on, don't laugh: New Orleans just has a lot of people who need to be on a diet -- so does every city. Even the ones with the lowest obesity rates have rates that are too high for in Phillies hitless in last 5 innings, beaten by Bucs 09/10/2014 11:52pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Once the Philadelphia bats went silent, the Phillies were doomed.Pitcher Jerome Williams got a two-run single in the fourth inning that put the Phillies ahead, but that was their last hit Wednesday night in a 6-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates."We just couldn't get anything goin Text of Obama's address on Islamic State strategy 09/10/2014 09:15pm • The Associated Press Text of President Barack Obama's address Wednesday night on the Islamic State strategy, as prepared for delivery and provided by the White House:___My fellow Americans - tonight, I want to speak to you about what the United States will do with our friends and allies to degrade Athletics C John Jaso still out with concussion 09/10/2014 09:10pm • CHICAGO (AP) -- Oakland Athletics catcher John Jaso remains out indefinitely with a concussion after visiting a specialist.Manager Bob Melvin was hoping Jaso would be cleared to return after seeing Dr. Micky Collins in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. But the doctor wants Jaso to try a different routine.Mel Hall of Famer Bart Starr recovering from stroke 09/10/2014 05:50pm • GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr is recovering from a mild stroke.Starr's family said Wednesday in a statement released by the Green Bay Packers that Starr had the stroke last week. The statement said the 80-year-old Starr is "very functional" and making progress every day Farm-to-belly: A farmer, chef and doctor discuss the future of food 09/10/2014 05:34pm • WASHINGTON -- Chef Spike Gjerde's 14-ounce dry-aged ribeye has been "a mainstay" on Woodberry Kitchen's menu over the years. The meat, which hails from a farm in Baltimore County, is prepared in a cast iron skillet and is basted with butter, garlic and herbs. Gjerde calls the ribeye "beautiful Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 09/10/2014 05:00pm • The Associated Press Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:___Sept. 8The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, on World Health Organization hurting:Were it not for horribly misguided Islamic religious fanatics in northern Nigeria and tribal Pakistan, the Wor Clusters of childrens' respiratory virus in Va. 09/10/2014 03:29pm • WASHINGTON -- Kids in the D.C. region and elsewhere in the U.S. are coming down with serious respiratory illnesses. Viruses, including one uncommon strain that health workers are watching closely, are to blame. "They're basically very bad cold viruses, and they affect the lungs of children," sa Just Landed app tells when to leave for airport 09/10/2014 09:38am • Data Doctors Bidvoy: Find the market price to buy or sell 09/10/2014 09:35am • Data Doctors How to change Facebook Autoplay video 09/10/2014 09:32am • Data Doctors With surge in Liberia, Ebola case toll above 4,200 09/10/2014 01:30am • SARAH DiLORENZO Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- A surge in Ebola infections in Liberia is driving a spiraling outbreak in West Africa that is increasingly putting health workers at risk as they struggle to treat an overwhelming number of patients.A higher proportion of health workers has bee To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate? 09/10/2014 12:00am • For the vast majority of parents, vaccinating their children is a given. But for some parents, vaccines represent a threat to their child's health and safety. And that threat becomes real for an even smaller number -- the parents of the one child in approximately one million who does have a severe Mets 3B Wright done for season with sore shoulder 09/09/2014 11:12pm • HOWIE RUMBERG AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Mets third baseman David Wright will sit out the rest of the season because of a nagging injury to his left shoulder.Wright was examined Tuesday by doctors at the Hospital for Special Surgery, where he had an MRI that showed persistent inflammation in Ebola is surging in places it had been beaten back 09/09/2014 08:30pm • SARAH DiLORENZO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there.The Macenta region, right on the Liberian border, had been one of the first places where the outbrea