Building Strength and Muscle without Illegal Substances (Carteret County News-Times)

(ARA) - Every week the media comes out with a new story of another amateur or professional athlete using steroids. For athletes and health fanatics it seems they are willing to do whatever they believe is necessary to get results, and ignore the risk involved in using illegal substances.

$150 Million Anti-Violence Plan Announced; Funding Called Into Question (NBC 5 Chicago)

Gov. Rod Blagojevich doesn't have the financing set yet, but Tuesday he announced a $150 million plan to curb youth violence in Chicago.

Muscle-car designer makes U-turn (Los Angeles Times)

After more than a dozen years of dreaming up sports cars, Jason Hill opens his own firm specializing in bold, energy-efficient concepts. For the son of a General Motors designer -- born and raised in Detroit in the final years of the "big, bigger and biggest" age of American cars -- creating a vehicle that doesn't even have a combustion engine would seem an unlikely fate.

Sweet connections: Pies, cobblers, other desserts among Midwest's creative contributions (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Most people think the West was won by gun-slinging sheriffs, the prairies tamed by sweat, muscle and sodbusting farmers. Uh-uh. It was pie. Pie, cake, cobblers, the occasional kolache or schaum torte.

Simple Solutions (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

How to do it: Lie on your back, feet flat and hip-width apart, arms relaxed and knees bent. Squeeze your buttocks as you lift your hips, creating a straight line from the knees to the shoulders. Hold for a slow count of two, then lower slowly. Build up to 10 to 12 repetitions.

Sweet connections: Pies, cobblers, other desserts among Midwest's creative contributions (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)

Most people think the West was won by gun-slinging sheriffs, the prairies tamed by sweat, muscle and sodbusting farmers.

QUESTION: (ThirdAge)

How Do I Cure Back Pain? I've been told that I am suffering with non-specific low back pain. I have had this now for several weeks after I felt my back go after lifting a cooker. Why am I not getting better and what is the best treatment?

AL team notes (USA Today)

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Fitness author pushes slow burn sessions for toning (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

Fitness author Jorge Cruise believes that just a few minutes per week of properly applied resistance exercise can firm muscles, build lean muscle and trim inches off the waist.

Gov. wants to spend $150 million on anti-violence programs (The Pantagraph)

CHICAGO -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich's $150 million plan to curb youth violence after a rash of Chicago shootings relies on something the Democrat hasn't done before: Getting lawmakers to pass a capital bill so he can pay for his proposal.

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