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Melissa McCarthy has lost 45 pounds.

The 'Identity Thief' star has reportedly been following a new diet and fitness regime in a bid to improve her health for the sake of her daughters, Vivian, seven, and Georgette, four, with husband Ben Falcone, 41.

A source close to the actress said: "She's been making small changes and seeing big results. It's given her a real confidence boost.

"She has been on a high protein, low carb diet."

But the 44-year-old actress has no desire to shed too much weight, as she wants to maintain her curves.

The insider also told Star magazine: "Melissa knows that fans love her big and beautiful, and she's not obsessed with dieting. She's looking for a happy medium.

"Melissa realised she wasn't being as healthy as she could be. She wants to set a good example for her kids and she wants to be around to become a grandmother too."

The former 'Gilmore Girls' star previously insisted she didn't feel any pressure about her appearance in Hollywood.

Earlier this year, she said: "I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.'"

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We have new information that can help explain the death of an entire San Carlos Park family. Maria Navas and her three young girls were murdered in their home back in June.

Deputies say the girls' father, Sonny Enrique Medina, shot them all before killing himself.

The final report is difficult to read due to the tragic details. Investigators say Maria Navas was looking to leave her husband, and he was determined to keep the family together.

It was a night that started out with fun - but ended in immense tragedy.

We were first on scene in early June - learning the family of five was found dead.

Shortly after, we discovered a 911 call, phoned in moments after Enrique Medina killed his family.

"I messed up...I just want my brother," Medina told dispatchers.

Detectives say there were signs the oldest child, just 10, was trying to defend herself.

Investigators found her little sisters, just 5 and 2, in the bed, covered with a blanket.

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Central Point, Ore. -- It's a chilling case of a domestic violence homicide that shattered a family.

A husband allegedly shot and killed his wife while family members said two children and a teenager were inside the home.

The suspect, 42-year-old Wade Phillips, is now in jail and charged with murder. Now, the kids are left with just memories of their mom Cynthia, who friends called Cindy.

Tammi Pitzen is the Executive Director of Jackson County's Children's Advocacy Center. She said children who experience a traumatic event like this is something they'll never get over.

"We often underestimate the effects domestic violence can have on children. It is a very very serious threat to their emotional stability as well as their physical safety," Pitzen said.

She said while every child responds to traumatic events differently kids in these types of situations often suffer from post traumatic stress.

"Some of the things kids might experience is the same types of trauma responses we see in war vets," she said.

And the effects are long lasting, and wide ranging. Pitzen said experiencing domestic violence can impact all areas of a child's life from school performance to relationships.

Therapy and support from family can help, but Pitzen said it never fully makes the pain go away it just makes it easier to live with.

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Trapped between two municipalities, two sewer authorities, the state Department of Environmental Protection and Pucketa Creek, about 35 property owners in northern Murrysville may see a resolution to their long-standing sanitary sewer problems, if the various agencies work together.

At last weeks council meeting, chief administrator Jim Morrison told council that some properties along Pucketa Creek on Greensburg Road/Route 366 have a problem because they cannot tap into the nearby sanitary sewer line, which is across the creek in Washington Township.

The sewer line is owned by the Municipal Authority of Washington Township, and sewerage is pumped to the Kiski treatment plant in Vandergrift. Murrysville residents are served by the Franklin Township Municipal Sewer Authority and there is no service agreement that allows Washington Township to serve Murrysville.

As a result, homeowners with failing septic systems have nowhere to turn.

Unable to sell his house because the septic system was discharging sewerage in the creek, Jim Copal of Greensburg Road said he appealed to the DEP for assistance. Last month, the agency consented to allow Mr. Copal to connect to the sewer line, provided both sewer authorities and both municipal governments agree.

In a letter dated Oct. 3, Jack Crislip, a clean water specialist for the DEP, acknowledged that all four of the responsible entities have preliminarily agreed to allow Mr. Copal to connect to the Washington authoritys sewer. However, DEP recommended that the municipalities revise their respective Act 537 plans to address the needs of all homes in the Pucketa Creek watershed. All municipalities in the state are required to submit an Act 537 plan to the state DEP, defining how the municipality handles sewage within its borders. The municipality is responsible to ensure that no sewage facilities, public or private, pollute any waters.

As part of the process, DEP has recommended that a study be done todetermine the capacity of the Kiski treatment plant,identify homes with malfunctions,perform a cost analysis of an alternative solution and do an environmental impact assessment.

Mr. Morrison estimated that the cost of the study would be between $25,000 and $50,000.

There has been an ongoing, and at times contentious, dialogue among Murrysville, Franklin and Washiington authorities about the Pucketa Creek watershed. To service homes in this area, the Franklin authority historically preferred to build a new 3-mile-long gravity feed line that would connect to the New Kensington treatment plant. According to Franklin authority manager James Brucker, reaching an agreement between the two sewer authorities is the problem.

Ive tried. I spent probably $20,000 in attorneys fees to get this done, Mr. Brucker said. Ive offered them anything they want, with one caveat: that if we ever get a line in to service the area, then those customers would come back into our system. The hang up is in Washington Township.

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The University of Minnesotas Amundson Hall addition allows some much-needed elbow room for the growing Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department and for a fancy electron microscope described by the U of M as the first of its kind in the world.

But the project itself didnt leave much wiggle room for construction crews, who squeezed the 40,000-square-foot addition known as the Gore Annex into a tight location at 421 Washington Ave. SE on the busy campus in Minneapolis.

If you look at the building, we are 20 feet from the next building over, said Jeff Schott, a professor in the U of Ms Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and the U of Ms construction point person for the project. It was like building in a phone booth.

U of M officials led a tour of the newly completed building addition Wednesday. Construction started in March 2013.

The $30 million project included $23 million for the Gore Annex, which has two floors below ground and four above ground, and $7 million worth of improvements to the 65-year-old Amundson Hall.

A high point is the FEI Tecnai Femto ultrafast electron microscope, which will enable researchers to learn more about materials at the atomic and molecular scale. The research has applications for everything from energy and medicine to digital technologies, the U of M said.

It allows us to make movies of the materials at the atomic levels, at the time scales we need, explained David Flannigan, an assistant professor in the U of Ms Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.

Research in the labs could benefit construction, health care, digital technologies and other industries, Flannigan said. Literally, there are experiments that have never been done before that we will be able to do now, he said.

The project will also allow for growth in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department, which has seen a 30 percent increase in undergraduate enrollment in recent years.

From a design and construction standpoint, the project presented some challenges, including the constrained site next to the Green Line light rail and existing buildings, and a need to avoid vibration that would throw the research activities for a loop.

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