Dancing video game helps kids keep weight off

West Virginia, which has the worst childhood obesity problem in the United States, is stepping up plans to use Konami’s “Dance Dance Revolution” to battle the bulge in its schools.
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Man files lawsuit to take his wife’s name

Mike Buday isn’t married to his last name. In fact, he and his fiancee decided before they wed that he would take hers. But Buday was stunned to learn that he couldn’t simply become Mike Bijon when they married in 2005.

As in most other states, that would require some bureaucratic paperwork well beyond what a woman must go through to change her name when marrying. Read more

Man gets letter postmarked 1954

Man gets letter postmarked 1954

A western Pennsylvania man is trying to solve a mystery that recently landed in his mailbox: a letter mailed more than 50 years ago and addressed to a Frederick Zane Yost.

The letter, with a 3-cent stamp and postmarked Oct. 26, 1954, was encased in a large Postal Service window envelope. There is a return address — in nearby Richland Township — but no sender’s name. Read more

Man’s wallet returned after 62 years

Ray Heilwagen has his wallet back, 62 years after he lost it in France during World War II. Late last year, Heilwagen received a call from Stephen Breitenstein of Palatine, Ill.

“He said, ‘Did you lose a billfold?’ and I remembered I did,” Heilwagen told the Hannibal Courier-Post. “Then he said, ‘I found it and will send it to you.’

“I could hardly believe it.” Read more