If you live in California, Oregon, Arizona, or Texas, and have ground beef in your freezer, you might want to give it a look to make sure that it's safe to eat.

A Modesto-based beef company has recalled one million pounds of its ground beef product after seven people have fallen ill with a rare strain of the E. coli bacterium.

As Meg Whitman aggressively steps up her Latino outreach efforts, some of the state’s Latinos aren’t merely letting her slip by in capturing one of the most influential and powerful voting blocs. 

Based on a phone survey of 400,000 individuals, the CDC is warning that "obesity has become a major problem, both for individuals and for the health care system." 

If there ever was bipartisan common ground, you'd think it would exist safe from government data mining. In theory, it would seem that limited-government conservatives would oppose "Big Brother" just as much as liberal, civil libertarians. They probably do, but you wouldn't know it the way privacy-invading legislation is routinely passed with little debate on Capitol Hill.