Soon after New York passed the Marriage Equality Act on June 24 last year, Katie Marks and Dese’Rae Stage began planning their wedding day. A licensed masseuse and a photographer , both 28, the couple had been dating since 2008 and were already planning to get married. On July 30, the first Saturday that gay marriages could be performed in New York City, Katie in a magenta dress and Des in skinny jeans and pink Chuck Taylors joined 23 other couples at the Pop Up Chapel , a one-day wedding event in Central Park, as part of New York City’s first wave of legally married gay couples. By January, though, things had started to come apart. Des and Katie have since separated and moved out of their Washington Heights apartment. They're now one of the first married gay couples — if not the very first — in New York to divorce. Be careful what you wish for.........

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The Obamas gave an interview recalling the first time they went out for dinner as a promotion for a competition the president's campaign is running, offering winners the chance to dine with him and his wife.

The interview coincides with a competition his Obama For America campaign have launched which offers winners the opportunity to have 'dinner with President Obama, along with a guest of your choice and four other supporters.'

The winners will each receive round-trip tickets for them and a guest from within the fifty U.S. States, DC, or Puerto Rico to a destination to be determined by the sponsor.

They will stay in a hotel and have dinner with the president and his wife at an undisclosed location - the competition states that the package is worth about $4,800.

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STRESSFUL lifestyles could be the key trigger for incurable Alzheimer’s disease, scientists believe.

Even the trauma of bereavement or moving home could bring on dementia .

Scientists funded by the Alzheimer’s Society

are investigating the link and hope their findings could lead to new drug treatments to fight the disease.

A study at the University of Kuopio in Finland has found that the long-term effects of stress may be the biggest cause of the disease.

When stressed, our blood pressure rises as our heart beats faster and levels of the hormone cortisol in the bloodstream also increase.

Experts believe once cortisol enters the brain it starts to kill off cells there, leading to Alzheimer’s.

The Finnish scientists found that patients with high blood pressure and high cortisol levels were more than three times as likely to develop Alzheimer’s than those without these conditions.

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A Lowell man is free following his arrest on charges he threw hot French fries at his young stepdaughter.

As a condition of his release, 26-year-old James Hackett must stay away from the girl.

Police say Hackett and his wife began arguing after leaving a McDonald’s. When his stepdaughter chimed in, Hackett allegedly threw the fries in her face.

She was not seriously hurt.

Hackett, who will be back in court in August, pleaded not guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon: French fries.

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Chew on this: Two 8th grade students on a Canadian school trip were fooled into eating moose droppings by a chaperone and the teachers and principal didn't do anything to stop it.

That stinky scenario happened last month in Grand Marais, Manitoba, and now the career of school principal Bob Kovachik may be in the proverbial toilet, while the other staff members have been disciplined.

The incident happened on the recent two-day canoe trip. Karen Eyolfson, whose 13-year-old son was one of the students who ingested the moose waste, said her son took a bite after a parent chaperone told him, facetiously, that the animal feces were chocolate-covered almonds.

She claims that Kovachick and two other staff members stood by as her son chewed the moose droppings while his classmates laughed at him.

Another student, who only wanted to be known as "Brook," said she was duped into eating moose droppings and was humiliated by the prank.

Kovachick has not commented on the incident, but he has been put on leave and will not return to the Walter Whyte School in the fall.

Both student who chewed the moose droppings have seen a doctor as a precaution.