( Baylor University ) Counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations -- with lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes -- than do those that rely on large companies with "absentee" owners, according to a national study by sociologists at LSU and Baylor University.

Longtime UNM community member Richard E. Greenleaf died Nov. 8, 2011 after a three-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, and he was commemorated in a ceremony Friday in the Alumni Memorial Chapel.

A $759,000 contract for chip-sealing Casa Grande streets as part of the 2012 pavement maintenance program is on the agenda when the City Council meets Monday night.

Student Harpsichord Recital Graduate student Nicholas Lockey will give a Harpsichord recital titled "Intersection" in Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall on Tuesday, February 7 at 8:00PM. Joined by John Burkhalter playing the Recorders, the recital will include works by Gibbons, Vivaldi, and Froberger. Nicholas is in the sixth year of his Ph.D. studies in the Musicology Program at Princeton, where he ...

A couple was hospitalized after their home was set ablaze Sunday by a spark from a cigar, according to a county fire official. County Fire Chief Jim Cox said the city and county fire departments were called to the home at 111 Concord Road in the early afternoon. Waco Volunteer Fire Department and the Richmond Fire Department also responded.

A Richmond country club is no longer offering dining to members, but remains available for catered events and will be open on certain holidays. Arlington Country Club, which has been a staple of Eastern Kentucky University for the past 40 years, laid off all dining staff late last week, according to Tom Coffey of the EKU Foundation.

Send calendar listings to community@seacoastonline.com . Please keep them brief and to the point. n Red Cross Blood Drive: 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 7, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Epping.

Stanford police are warning students to take safety precautions after two women were assaulted on Sunday.

DEARBORN — University of Michigan-Dearborn students now have the opportunity to minor in Arab American studies. The 15-credit minor, launched with the winter 2012 semester, provides students in any major the opportunity to examine the historical, political, economic, literary, artistic, cultural and psychological forces that have shaped and continue to shape the lives and communities of Arab ...

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