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Kimberly Whaley spent the past 13 years looking after her kids more than herself.

After she and her husband decided four kids were enough, she knew she had to make a change.

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“We decided our family was complete, so I couldn’t use that as an excuse any more,” said Whaley, 31, of Cordova.

She started attending Erica Hill’s Fusion Fitness dance classes in Bartlett, and enjoyed the fun workout, but it was Hill’s suggestion that Whaley try out Bootcamp that put Whaley in the fast lane of fitness.

“I thought about it for a few weeks, going back and forth, and then I told myself, ‘You know what, just go ahead and pay for it,’ because if I paid for it, I knew I would go,” Whaley said.

Since January, the occupational therapist has lost more than 20 inches, including 41/2 in her waist, two in her hips and six from her shoulders.

“That was measuring me in March and two months later in May.

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Evidence “strongly suggests” that a UN peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, according to a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians.

The study is the strongest argument yet that newly arrived Nepalese peacekeepers at a base near the town of Mirebalais brought with them the cholera, which spread through the waterways of the Artibonite region and elsewhere in the Caribbean country.

The disease has killed more than 5,500 people and affected more than 363,000 others since it was discovered in October, according to the Haitian government. Read more…

Victor Rodriguez was recovering from liver surgery Wednesday, two weeks after a parasailing accident that killed his wife, Crystal, and left him with extensive internal injuries.

Rodriguez’s condition is listed as serious and he will be in an Orlando, Fla., hospital for several weeks, according to family members.

“Vic has had many injuries, but he is doing as well as can be expected,” said Ruben Rodriguez, Victor Rodriguez’s father. “Right now, he’s leaning on his faith and all the support he’s gotten.”

The Roseville couple, both 22, were on their honeymoon in the Bahamas when on June 16 the day before they were to return home they went parasailing. Their harness snapped, and they plunged into the water.

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The first of three U.S. Appeals courts has now weighed in on the constitutionality of law year’s health overhaul, and the news couldn’t have been much better for backers of the Affordable Care Act.

The three-judge panel in the 6th Circuit, in separate opinions written by judges appointed by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush, ruled that “the minimum coverage provision” of the law (also known as the individual mandate) “is a valid exercise of legislative power by Congress under the Commerce Clause.”

As a result, the court in Cincinnati upheld the lower court ruling also finding the coverage requirement constitutionally acceptable in the case brought by the Thomas More Law Center in Michigan.

“The minimum coverage provision regulates activity that is decided economic,” wrote Circuit Judge Boyce Martin, the Carter appointee.

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