Seasoning Mixes Recalled For Salmonella Risk (Eyewitness News Memphis)
A Southern grocery chain has recalled four kinds of seasoning mixes that may be contaminated with salmonella.
Seniors Pinched by New Charges for Home Care Help (The Memphis Daily News)
WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) - Rising property taxes, failing eyesight and even a tumble that cracked her tailbone haven't forced 89-year-old Angeline DiBene....
Better health, take charge: Diet can interact with medicine -- for better or worse (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
What you should knowA healthful diet -- lots of vegetables, fruit, whole grains and protein -- will provide most of the essential vitamins, protein and minerals your body requires. Our body often absorbs nutrients better if we eat them rather than take pills.A daily multivitamin or supplements may be required for some people to ensure they get needed nutrients.Sometimes food and diet supplements ...
In Haiti, 'hoping for God to help' in earthquake's aftermath (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
The 2-year-old girl wore a pink Minnie Mouse dress, plastic flip-flops and a stare that could crumble concrete. Next to the makeshift shelter where she lived in a sprawling tent city, she gazed up at a visitor intently, silently as her grandmother spoke of making do without enough food.In the three weeks since I returned from Haiti, I've thought often of that girl, whose name is Junia, and ...
Letters: Misery not in Memphians' nature (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Mayor A C Wharton's response to the Forbes article was right on (March 2 article, "Wharton: Memphis not miserable / Mayor posts Web site rebuttal, cites crime stats, resourceful citizens"). There is something in our souls that makes us Memphians. I suppose you just have to live here to understand what a unique character this town possesses. I have often heard it said that there is a thin line ...