Like air, food, and water, the sun is something most people take for granted. However, a lack of exposure to sunlight can not only make you cold - it can also cause you psychological distress due to your body's need for an essential vitamin that the sun is usually responsible for providing. That vitamin is vitamin D.
Vitamin D deficiency, usually caused by a lack of exposure to sunlight, is thought to play an essential part in a person's mental health and has been linked to disorders like seasonal affective disorder, or SAD. Read More...
Updated: 1:02 p.m. Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), a two-time presidential candidate who was the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday over money spent to keep his mistress in hiding during his 2008 presidential campaign.
Edwards was charged with one count of conspiracy, four counts of illegal campaign contributions and one count of false statements. The indictment, handed down in the Middle District Court of North Carolina on Friday, was the culmination of a two-year federal investigation into alleged campaign finance violations. Read More...
ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. (AP) — Jeff Akin had to bite his tongue.
He was chatting with a neighbor about efforts to protect and grow the area’s red wolf population. The endangered wolves are equipped with bright orange radio collars to help locals distinguish the federally protected species from invasive, prolific coyotes.
“If I see one of those wolves with a collar on, I’m going to shoot it in the gut, so it runs off and dies,” Akin says the neighbor told him. Read More...
