(CNN) -- American fitness guru Jack LaLanne died Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay, California, according to his long-time agent, Rick Hersh. He was 96.
The cause, said Hersh, was respiratory failure due to pneumonia. LaLanne had been ill for the past week. His wife, Elaine, was at his side, along with his family and friends, Hersh said. No funeral arrangements were announced, but his agent said plans were being made.
LaLanne spent decades talking about the healthful benefits of exercise and fitness. He opened his own health spa in California in 1936, years before the fitness craze swept the United States. LaLanne even designed the world's first leg-extension machine, along with several other pieces of fitness equipment now standard in the fitness industry.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The leading professional group for doctors who implant defibrillators said it was cooperating in a Justice Department investigation into proper use of the devices. The Heart Rhythm Society said in a statement on Friday that it was providing expertise to officials conducting a civil investigation into implanted defibrillators, which correct dangerous heart rhythms using electrical shocks. A spokeswoman for the group declined to give details. The announcement comes two weeks after a medical journal article suggested one in five heart defibrillators may be implanted for questionable reasons. The devices are not recommended for patients who have recently had a heart attack or bypass surgery, or those with short life expectancies.
On an 18-hour flight from California to Singapore a few years ago, Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, had little time for small talk with a colleague. Glued to his business class seat, Mr. Cook had his nose in spreadsheets, preparing for a thorough review of Apple's Asian operations. In Silicon Valley, Mr. Jobs is also known for relentlessness. Yet on many levels, he and Mr. Cook are opposites. While Mr. Jobs is mercurial and prone to outbursts, Mr. Cook, who was raised in a small town in Alabama, is polite and soft-spoken. He is often described as a "Southern gentleman." While Mr. Jobs obsesses over every last detail of Apple's products, Mr. Cook obsesses over the less glamorous minutiae of Apple's operations.
There was one Monster of the Midway in the NFC Championship Game and his name was Aaron Rodgers.
He wasn't even at his best and, still, he was better than the first, the second and the third quarterback used in vain by the Chicago Bears against their bitter rivals.
Rodgers ran for a score and made a TD-saving tackle in leading the Green Bay Packers into the Super Bowl with a bone-jarring 21-14 victory Sunday over Chicago."It's an incredible feeling," Rodgers said. "I'm at a loss for words."
Rodgers played well enough to keep the Bears off balance all afternoon, Green Bay punter Tim Masthay kept Devin Hester under wraps and the Packers' superb defense took care of the rest in knocking the Bears out of the playoffs.
More than 100 prison inmates had to be temporarily moved after a fire broke out this afternoon at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, authorities said.
The fire started late this afternoon in one of the cottages at the facility, said Matt Schuman, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. No injuries have been reported.
hree police officers -- two St. Petersburg, Florida, officers and a deputy U.S. marshal -- were shot and wounded while serving an arrest warrant on a St. Petersburg home, authorities said.
All three officers were taken to a local hospital after the incident, which occurred just before 7 a.m., St. Petersburg police spokesman Mike Puetz said.
MOSCOW - An explosion rocked an international terminal of Moscow's busiest airport on Monday afternoon in what Russian officials described as an apparent terrorist attack. The Health Ministry reported that at least 30 people had been killed and 130 injured, according to Russian state media.
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Though Minnesota state lawmakers appear likely to insist that a roof be part of any public deal for a new Vikings stadium, the team is sticking with its offer to pay about a third of the bill -- minus whatever a roof would cost.
Vikings vice president and stadium point man Lester Bagley said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Vikings would prefer an outdoor stadium, but understood that might not win legislative approval when lawmakers in February take up the team's request for a stadium funded in part by taxpayers.
An effort by Johnson & Johnson to buy back defective Motrin pills from store shelves - described as a "phantom recall" by some members of Congress - has come under fire in a lawsuit filed by the state of Oregon against the company.
CLINTON TWP. - A search for a missing 16-year-old girl that lasted more than three hours led police to arrest a 21-year old Pennsylvania man on Jan. 6, police said today.
The search began around 8:35 p.m. Dec. 30 when Patrolman Andrew McCluskey was dispatched to a township home on the report of a missing girl. Throughout the night, McCluskey checked with the girl's friends and continued to check whether she'd returned home. Among those contacted was Samuel Scott, of Tatamy, Pa. Police said he told them he hadn't seen the girl in more than a month but that he'd be willing to help in the search. Around midnight, Scott called police and reported he'd found her at a truck stop in Bloomsbury.
Police said McCluskey met the girl, Scott and several "young adults" at a car outside the girl's home. The girl was unresponsive, and reeked of alcohol and vomit, according to police. Clinton rescue squad responded and took the unresponsive girl to Hunterdon Medical Center for treatment.
Police said that an investigation revealed that during the search the group, including the girl, had been in Scott's truck driving around and drinking rum.
Scott was charged with obstruction of justice and released.
Tucson, Arizona (CNN) -- In between consoling those touched by Saturday's Arizona shooting and warning the nation against politicizing the tragedy, President Barack Obama delivered some good news in his address at a Tucson memorial event on Wednesday.
Floodwaters peaked here on Thursday, swamping tens of thousands of homes and businesses as locals began to count the cost of an ongoing natural disaster that has inundated vast swaths of the country's northeast and killed at least 25 people.
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The New York Jets are appealing the $100,000 fine handed down by the NFL last week for the Sal Alosi tripping incident, a team spokesman said Wednesday.
The NFL fined the Jets last Thursday for violating league rules when Alosi, a strength and conditioning coach, tripped Miami's Nolan Carroll on the sideline during a punt return in the Jets-Dolphins game on Dec. 12. The league said Alosi instructed inactive players to stand in a wall in a prohibited area on the sideline to deter opposing teams' players during special-teams plays, which is a violation of NFL policy.
Alosi was suspended until the end of the season by the Jets for the trip.
Jets spokesman Bruce Speight said Wednesday that the team's appeal was a "typical course of action" and added that any further conversations about the appeals process will remain between the team and the NFL.
Most Americans have taken the leap and tossed out their old boxy televisions in favor of sleek flat-panel displays.
After a period of strong growth, sales of televisions are slowing. To counter this, TV makers are trying to persuade consumers to buy new sets by promoting new technologies. At this week's Consumer Electronics Show, which opens Thursday, every TV maker will be crowing about things like 3-D and Internet connections - features that have not generated much excitement so far.
Through 106 years of traffic and floods and other elements of the weather.
And now, after a rehabilitation project, one of New Jersey's oldest and most unique spans has had its life extended even more.
"This bridge has always been safe, but it really was starting to show its age," said Frank G. McCartney, executive director of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, which paid for the $8 million project through tolls at some of its other Delaware River crossings. "There was so much corrosion that it looked like rust was the bridge's official color."
(CNN) -- Authorities in Chandler, Arizona, said they believe the gunman who held hostages at a restaurant is the same man who fled into a mall after opening fire on members of a crime task force.
The man who surrendered at the Baja Fresh restaurant is not the federal fugitive that U.S. marshals thought they might have spotted earlier outside the Chandler Fashion Center, said Chandler Police Sgt. Joe Favazzo.
Thousands of mourners thronged to the funeral in Lahore of the governor, Salman Taseer, a prominent voice for secularism who had recently become the focus of religious fury for speaking out against the nation's strict blasphemy laws.
Many of the nation's top politicians, including Mr. Taseer's chief rival in Punjab and the leader of the opposition, Nawaz Sharif, did not attend the services. Neither did President Asif Ali Zardari, a friend and ally of Mr. Taseer, but out concern for his own security.
Government ministers and party officials indicated that they were dropping the campaign to change the blasphemy laws that Mr. Taseer had championed. No senior official would be drawn to comment on the religious extremist aspect of the killing at the funeral. Those who did comment, indicated a shift in the government position, by suggesting the killing was a political murder and a conspiracy, rather than a religiously motivated attack.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureishi avoided all comment and merely expressed his condolences to the family when approached by journalists. The Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, went as far as to say he would shoot any blasphemer himself.
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Eric S on 24 Jan 11(CNN) -- American fitness guru Jack LaLanne died Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay, California, according to his long-time agent, Rick Hersh. He was 96. The cause, said Hersh, was respiratory failure due to pneumonia. LaLanne had been ill for the past week. His wife, Elaine, was at his side, along with his family and friends, Hersh said. No funeral arrangements were announced, but his agent said plans were being made. LaLanne spent decades talking about the healthful benefits of exercise and fitness. He opened his own health spa in California in 1936, years before the fitness craze swept the United States. LaLanne even designed the world's first leg-extension machine, along with several other pieces of fitness equipment now standard in the fitness industry.
