Scientists have discovered a protein that acts like a “master switch” determining whether white blood cells will boost or dampen inflammation, a discovery that could help researchers find new drugs, or possibly even a cure, for rheumatoid arthritis. Many patients with rheumatoid arthritis are treated with a class of medications called tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors made by a number ... Read More »

To celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s enduring and powerful message of peace and acceptance, here are some of his wise words. Which quote is most powerful for you? We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends ... Read More »

Robert Pattinson presented the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film last night. But it wasn’t Denmark’s In a Better World that had people buzzing after the Twilight Saga star left the stage. Robert showed up to the event with ginger hair, a result, he said, of having to “keep switching” up his look between filming Water for Elephants ... Read More »

In the wake of his thinly veiled references to New York Jets coach Rex Ryan and his wife’s foot fetish video controversy, New England Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker was benched for the opening series by coach Bill Belichick. During a press conference, Welker made multiple references to feet. “I don’t feel anything,” Welker said. “I was just ready for the ... Read More »

Teresa Scanlan of Nebraska will spend the next year as Miss America after besting 52 other pageant hopefuls at Saturday’s event in Las Vegas. The 17-year-old Gering resident and Scottsbluff High School student played the piano during the competition. Her platform issue was tackling eating disorders. She hopes to attend law school, become a judge and eventually a politician, according ... Read More »

There’s now one very lucky little girl with a new guardian angel — massacre victim Christina Taylor Green, whose organs the child received in a lifesaving transplant. “This is exactly what Christina would have wanted, to be able to help someone else,” said her aunt, Kim Green. The organs were donated to a stricken young girl from Boston. “Christina will ... Read More »

Martin Luther King Jr. could hardly believe his eyes when he left the segregated South as a teenage college student to work on a tobacco farm in Connecticut. “On our way here we saw some things I had never anticipated to see,” he wrote his father in June 1944. “After we passed Washington there was no discrimination at all. The ... Read More »