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RUSH researchers recently discovered that a muscle-building supplement called beta-hydroxy beta-methylbutyrate, also called HMB, may help protect memory, reduce plaques and ultimately help prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease. HMB is not a prescription drug or a steroid, but an over-the-counter supplement that is available in sports and fitness stores. Bodybuilders regularly use HMB to increase exercise-induced gains in muscle size and strength while improving exercise performance. HMB is considered safe even after long-term use, with no known side effects. "This may be one of the safest and the easiest approaches to halt disease progression and protect memory in Alzheimer's...

<p>PORT ROYAL, Va. (AP) _ He left $100 bills in his wake and, when this bank robber reached his getaway car, he found the keys had been locked inside.</p> <p>It didn't get any better Wednesday for the masked man who entered the Union Bank & Trust in Caroline County. After he fled his locked car on foot, the frustrated suspect was run down by two civilians and inadvertently shot himself in the leg.</p>

News Man threatens ridge occupants, then rams house with his pickup By DANNY BERNARDINI - Staff WriterPARADISE - After forcing entrance to a home and threatening lives, a Paradise man drove his truck into a PG&E gas meter attempting to blow up the house on Sunday.Paradise police Sgt. Mark Tange said before entering the home the man drove his truck through the locked gate of the Kibler Street home. Once inside the yard, Tange said the suspect used two knives to threaten the lives of the six occupants, one of them his ex-wife.When the family convinced the man to leave...

Burglars nabbed by college student, cops say Two burglars looking for money to buy drugs instead found themselves staring down the barrels of two guns after they were ambushed during a break-in, authorities said. Jacob A. McKissick, 26, of Seward, and Tara Ann Resch, 23, of the 300 block of Cypress Avenue, Johnstown, were captured by a gun-toting relative and his friend, authorities said. The pair forced their way into the Aaron and Jessica Stuart residence in the 600 block of Fairfield Avenue, Lower Yoder Township, around 6 p.m. Tuesday, cops said. Thinking no one was home, they forced the...

Groups Decry Commercial Turkey FarmsBy DAVID CRARY GARDINER, N.Y. (AP) - Dismayed by the practices of large commercial turkey farms, animal-welfare groups are intensifying their appeals to consumers to reconsider their Thanksgiving menus.Options can range from vegetarian meals - including turkey-shaped tofu loaves - to free-range turkeys that roam pastures of small, family run operations like Four Winds Farm in the Catskills town of Gardiner.``Our turkeys have only one bad day,'' said Polly Armour, referring to the pre-Thanksgiving slaughter that she and her husband, Jay, perform with a razor-sharp knife at a barn on their 24-acre organic farm.``The rest of...

HOUSTON (AP) - The co-pilot of a single-engine aircraft plunged from the plane as it made a steep turn 9,000 feet over the Houston area. The 45-year-old Houston man apparently jumped or fell from the plane Sunday afternoon near Prairie View, about 20 miles northwest of Houston, federal and local authorities told the Houston Chronicle for Monday editions. An instructor pilot, the only other person on board, was concentrating on a steep turning maneuver when he heard a thump and saw the co-pilot's feet and legs leaving the airplane, Waller County Sheriff's Lt. John Kremmer told the Chronicle. Kremmer said...

Posted Oct. 18, 2002 Alleged disc thieves ’round at a bad timeBrothers arrived at Appleton shop probed by policeBy John Lee Post-Crescent staff writerAPPLETON — Sometimes, when you least expect it, it drops into your hands. Appleton police officers executing a search warrant at a DVD-CD resale shop Thursday morning had to interrupt their inventory when two men came in with a truck full of DVDs that allegedly were stolen from area Wal-Mart stores. By the time Disc Go Round would normally close in the evening, police had identified and hauled out about 15 boxes of DVDs and CDs, plus...

MIAMI (Reuters) - A man dubbed by authorities as the "bumbling bank robber" had his two gold teeth knocked out as he ran into traffic and was hit by a van while fleeing a heist, FBI ( news - web sites) agents in Miami said. The suspect, who also may have shot himself accidentally, escaped in a waiting get-away car but police recovered his teeth from the street and held them as evidence, the FBI said on Tuesday. The suspect walked into a Wachovia Bank branch in North Miami Beach on Monday, pulled a gun from his pocket as he...