Last summer, Patty Richard received bad news: A close friend had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Richard left Joplin to be with her friend. “I went through the whole thing with her,” she said. “That’s when I found out about the risks of dense breasts.”

St. John Medical Center has announced that it will become the first and only hospital in Oklahoma to become a certified member of the MD Anderson Cancer Network.

“It is more likely than not the case that all of Valle’s Internet communications about the kidnapping are fantasy role-play.” – Manhattan Federal Judge Paul Gardephe, writing in a 120-page opinion on the case of the “cannibal cop.” Gilberto Valle was convicted last year of planning to kill and eat his estranged wife and other women, but the conviction was overturned today, citing lack of evidence.

According to the National Summer Learning Association, the break from school often means the loss of reading skills, which means remediating those skills when they return to school in the fall.

General Motors issued a new round of recalls for faulty ignition switches this week, but the company says the problem is different than the ignition switch defect that sparked recalls in February. At the same time, Chrysler is recalling vehicles for a similar ignition switch defect.

Panicked residents looked for a safe place to hide Tuesday as Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia separatists fought an hours-long gunbattle in the center of Donetsk, the largest city in eastern Ukraine. Rebels captured the Interior Ministry headquarters there a day after the president said they weren’t serious about peace and ended a cease-fire.

Republicans called it a win for religious freedom. The decision of the Supreme Court, they said, is further evidence the country’s new health care law is deeply flawed.

Israel on Tuesday mourned the deaths of three teenagers who had been kidnapped over two weeks ago, as the air force targeted dozens of locations in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said, in a surge of violence that followed the discovery of the teens’ bodies.

A widely publicized adoption case involving a Carthage couple and a Guatemalan mother living in Carthage illegally has ended after more than six years at the U.S. Supreme Court.

He is a traveler, but he is far from weary.