The Centers for Disease Control reports that the number one cause of death by injury in the US is now poisoning, especially drug poisoning. The report also says 9 out of every 10 poisoning deaths are now attributed to drugs.

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Following a massive attack waged Thursday on several government and entertainment industry websites, hacktivists with Anonymous continued their assault over the weekend, momentarily taking CBS.com offline.

The next target very well might be Facebook.

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A US marine accused of killing unarmed women and children reached a plea agreement that will see him serve three months in prison for dereliction of duty, the Associated Press reports. Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich led the Marine squad that carried out the November 2005 slaughter in Haditha, which claimed the lives of 24 Iraqi civilians. Prosecutors said he lost control after seeing the body of his friend blown apart by a roadside bomb. The primary issue of the court martial was to determine if Wuterich had operated within military combat rules, or if he had disregarded them, by indiscriminately firing at civilians. Wuterich was charged with nine counts of manslaughter, though in accordance with the plea, those charges will be dropped. Of the eight Marines charged in the 2005 killings, no one has been convicted. The 2005 Haditha murders further polarized Iraqi public opinion over the US mission in Iraq in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The massacre is said to be the primary reason Iraqi authorities refused to give US troops legal immunity from their court system.

Junk food in schools is a hot topic for parents. Now, a newly released national study shows that junk food in middle school does not lead to weight gain in children.

The study looked at 20,000 children from kindergarten to 8th grade. It compared students with access to junk food at school to those without, and concluded that there was no difference in weight gain.

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