Lack of exercise, expensive fresh produce and a lack of local food resources have all been cited as potential contributors to the obesity epidemic in the United States. While all of those are legitimate concerns, a new study suggests the price of American foods is the biggest contributor to growing waistlines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate about …

13,000 surgical students around the globe were watching yesterday as a British surgeon removed a tumour from the liver and bowel of a patient in the world’s first operation streamed live using the Google Glass device.

One person is dead and three others are hurt after a shooting in the east end. Shots rang out outside a home on Walpole Ave near Greenwood Ave and Gerrard St E. just before 9 p.m. Saturday. A man in his 20s was pronounced dead on scene and three other men in their 20s ended up in hospital. One of …

Adhering to a low carbohydrate vegan diet helps lower the risk of heart disease by 10 percent in addition to over four pounds of weight loss, a new study suggests. “We killed two birds with one stone – or, rather, with one diet,” said Dr. David Jenkins, the director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Modification Centre and a Nutritional …

Wiz Khalifa has been arrested in Texas for possession of marijuana. TMZ reports the rapper was flying from El Paso to Dallas when the transportation security administration (TSA) stopped him. They are said to have discovered a “green leafy substance” during a check of his luggage and person before handing Wiz over to local police.

Belgium launched a nationwide manhunt Sunday for a lone suspect in a shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum as the toll in the attack rose to four dead. The attack, which came on the eve of national and European Parliament elections, led officials to immediately raise anti-terror measures and increase the protection for Jewish sites. Video of the attack …

The president and founder of Cathedral Bible College in Myrtle Beach is accused of making international students work long hours with little pay by threatening their legal status.

More than one-third of hospitals statewide lost money in 2013. More than half of the state’s hospitals had profit margins lower than 4 percent for the year, the threshold for sustainability, according to the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. It’s a trend that likely will continue statewide through 2014 and beyond, and, with that, the Corbett administration should abandon …

Authorities said an argument preceded the shooting death of a 25-year-old Indiana man who was camping in a parking lot near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. One person is in custody. Max Levine, 25, of Kokomo, was shot early Saturday morning in Coke Lot 1C, Speedway Police Lt. Trent Theobald said in a news release. He told The Indianapolis Star that …

Three people were killed and a fourth person was wounded in a shooting at an oceanfront motel in Myrtle Beach, one of South Carolina’s most popular tourist destinations. The shootings took place around 11 p.m. Saturday in front of crowds of tourists at the Bermuda Sands Motel along the beach’s new boardwalk, Myrtle Beach Police Capt. David Knipes said.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) issued a call to action to his fellow lawmakers Sunday and said Congress needs to bring back gun control measures following the tragic shootings in Isla Vista, Calif. Blumenthal called for a renewed push to pass gun control legislation during an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”