Health

LIVE: Getting Dirty on the Morning Show

FARGO — It’s wet outside. It’s muddy. What can you do, besides complain about it? Try celebrating it instead. That’s the plan for Saturday at the First Avenue Market in downtown Fargo, as they celebrate International Mud Day. Mud Day’s grown at lot since it was first started in 2009 as a way for children to connect with the earth…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Lia

FARGO — Lia is a super-chatty and charming kitty who came to Homeward Animal Shelter by way of the pound about a week ago. They think she’s about seven years old, and as Heather Klefstad of Homeward says,  it’s unclear why a cat who’s so beautiful and well-behaved, not to mention affectionate, wouldn’t be a cat someone was looking for….

LIVE: Men’s Health Awareness Month

FARGO — It’s Men’s Health Awareness Month and it’s time to tackle one of the toughest topics out there: mental health. It’s a critical component of anyone’s health, but men can face special challenges in pursuing improved mental health. Stereotypical, old-fashioned ideas about masculinity might make men inclined to suffer in silence. In fact, mental health professionals say, it takes…

LIVE: All-Star Week and 40 Years of the Celebrity Golf Tournament

FARGO — We’ve been following Roger Maris All-Star Week all week long. But for one man, this year’s All-Star week comes with special significance. That’s because the annual Celebrity Golf Tournament turns forty years old this week. Roger Maris Junior was there for the first one. They started it the year after his dad, baseball legend Roger Maris, was diagnosed…

FDA: Dollar Tree left lead-tainted applesauce pouches on store shelves for weeks after recall

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Government officials say Dollar Tree stores failed to effectively recall lead-tainted applesauce pouches linked to illness in more than 500 children. Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to Dollar Tree officials and placed the Ecuadorian distributor of WanaBana apple cinnamon pouches under multiple import alerts. The FDA says pouches remained on some Dollar Tree…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Willow

FARGO — Willow here is just about five weeks old but she’s already had some hard knocks in life. The little brown medium-hair tabby came in to her rescue over memorial day weekend, when someone came in with her to a local coffee shop looking for someone to rehome her, essentially abandoning her. Not only that, but Willow should not…