One third of adults in the United States are obese, so, it is clear that the problem is an epidemic. But, a major medical group is now classifying obesity as a disease.

Three full-time staff positions and nearly $70,000 in funding for part-timers have been cut to make way to hire a new chief of staff for Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua Starr, the Gazette says.

Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy "Mars Attacks!," died Wednesday.

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the famed Italian fashion designers, were convicted Wednesday of withholding more than $1 billion in income tax.

Issuing an appeal for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time."

Police say three pedestrians were hurt in a crash near Union Station in northwest Washington Wednesday.

President Barack Obama says lives have been saved by sweeping surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency.

ABC7's Adam Caskey previews the PVDA Ride for Life. The annual horse show and family event is celebrating it's 10th anniversary this year.