Adolescents with type 2 diabetes have diminished cognitive performance and brain abnormalities, study finds (source: Science Daily)

DETROIT (AP) Pavel Datsyuk and Todd Bertuzzi scored shootout goals to give the Detroit Red Wings their 19th consecutive home victory, 2-1 over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night. […]

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) With some help from Blake Griffin, Chris Paul came up huge when the Los Angeles Clippers needed it most. […]

Jeremy Lin’s joyride rolled onward as the Knicks defeated the Lakers at Madison Square Garden for their fourth straight victory. […]

Asian-Americans, some of them newly minted basketball fans, gathered Friday at Gatsby’s bar to watch Jeremy Lin’s performance. […]

Lost amid the unadulterated giddiness in the Garden over Jeremy Lin was the reality that Kobe Bryant’s disappointing game will be his only visit to the area this year. […]

NEWPORT NEWS — Seventh-grader Davonte Brown struggles to break away from Facebook long enough to take a single bite of dinner. […]

 The Newport News Police Department will put extra patrols on the street this weekend to focus on stopping drunken drivers. […]

Former Virginia Tech quarterback among people charged.— Former Virginia Tech football star Maurice DeShazo was among 15 men charged last week with soliciting prostitution following a Newport News police sting. […]

For most of three quarters on Friday, the Washington Wizards played with enough ambition and resolve that on other nights may have been sufficient to produce a victory. The opponent in this case, though, was reigning Eastern Conference champion Miami, so an incomplete performance instead yielded a 106-89 loss before a Verizon Center crowd of 20,282 that booe […]

President Obama will send Congress a 2013 spending plan that would raise taxes on the rich and pump nearly $500 billion into new transportation projects over the next decade, launching an election-year debate over the budget that promises starkly different visions for managing government debt and the sluggish economy. Read full article >> […]

On Friday, the Republican presidential race shrank to the size of a hotel ballroom. Three top contenders made pitches to conservative activists gathered in Washington — each man hoping that a speech could unite a movement that months of campaigning had not. Read full article >> […]