NEW YORK -- For much of the country, it's Girl Scout cookie time again. And this year, all those cookies, not just the Thin Mints and a few others, will come nearly free of harmful trans fats.

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that those found to have been responsible for allowing substandard living conditions for soldier outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center will be "held accountable."

NEW YORK -- New Yorkers are used to seeing rats where they catch their trains -- not where they buy their burritos.