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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California (search), the land of body worshippers and vegetarians, is getting alarmingly fat, with more than half of all adults overweight, according to a study released Tuesday. The study estimates that overweight and inactive Californians cost $21.7 billion a year in medical bills, injuries and lost productivity. …

MANSFIELD TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Three people died in a fiery crash on the New Jersey Turnpike (search) early Friday morning, and traffic remained snarled during the morning commute. The collisions of three tractor-trailers, a commuter van and a car in Burlington County at about 1:05 a.m. closed northbound lanes of …

Participants in the Minuteman Project (search) have been patrolling a stretch of the southeastern Arizona border since earlier this month, but they would like to organize patrols in other high-traffic smuggling areas. The volunteers, some of whom are armed, began spreading out earlier this month along a 23-mile stretch of …