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Beyonce Knowles, famously of Destiny's Child, released a workout video last Tuesday in support of Michelle Obamas campaign against childhood obesity.

The video features the famous signer dancing to high-energy songs in combination with traditional exercises like running and jumping rope.

According to the Huffington Post, the video, which is set in a school cafeteria, is a remix of Knowles racier song "Get Me Bodied". The song was rewritten with new lyrics encouraging children to exercise. The video was produced to put a new twist on traditional exercise videos and in an effort to make children to work.

"What we want to do is make it fun," Beyoncé said in a preview video released earlier this month.

Knowles initiative supports Michelle Obamas "Let's Move" campaign, however according to The Washington Post, a White House spokesman said the first lady wasn't directly involved but added, "a great example of how people can get involved...and bring this message to more and more young people."

Fittingly, according to the New York Times, The video ends on a patriotic note. Before the cool down, the final dance is "wave the American flag."

Divers have recovered bundles of cocaine in Heron Lake in northern New Mexico where a small plane crashed last week.

According to MSNBC, Police Lieutenant Eric Garcia said the number of people aboard the aircraft was not immediately known but there were no signs that anybody had survived the crash. The Star Tribune further reported that only "fragmented pieces of human remains" have been found.

According to the Star Tribune, witnesses reported the crash about 100 miles north of Santa Fe, at about 10:30 a.m. Since the crash winds and currents have caused the debris to spread, but more then 20 packages of cocaine have been recovered.

The Southwest has been notorious for dealing with air trafficking issues. In April 2010, in eastern New Mexico, state police found more than 400 pounds of marijuana inside a plane which were valued at more then $500,000.

"I won't say it's keeping us super busy," state police Chief Robert Shilling said, "and we're interdicting a plane a week, but ... air smuggling in New Mexico always has been and will continue to be an issue for law enforcement."

Two men who were missing for more than a week were found dead in the mountains of Grand Tetons National Park under 13 feet of snow and debris on April 24.

The two men, Gregory Seftick, 31, and Walker Kuhl, 30, were buried by the avalanche on April 16 below Nez Perce peak in Garnet Canyon Meadows. Rescue efforts to save the men were delayed due to poor weather conditions which dumped an additional three feet of snow in the area. The men were found both still in their sleeping bags in their tent.

"This time of year the snow pack changes every day," park public affairs officer Jackie Skaggs told the Star Tribune, "The conditions were ripe to go, for whatever reason. And the two young men were in the wrong place at the wrong time."

According to CBS Minnesota the two men planned to climb Grand Teton, which is outside Jackson Hole, and then ski down. When Kuhl failed to return on Sunday, his girlfriend called police, and a search started.

"He was fit, young, strong and experienced," David Francis a family friend Seftick's told the Star Tribune, "and he'd been in the Tetons before. He'd done winter mountain skiing before. What appears to have happened is that they pitched their tent in an unfortunate location."

Behind the prestine and profitable Yankee Stadium promises of three public baseball fields remain merely muddy eyesores as thier construction continues to be put off.

After the construction of Yankee Stadium in 2009, officials promised nearby residents three new public baseball playing fields to replace ones that were bulldozed over to make room for the new stadium in 2006.

The fields that were in Macombs Dam Park were the only regulation baseball diamonds nearby. The diamonds were home to youth leagues, neighboorhood pickup games and nearby high schools.

"We've gone five years now with no ball fields here," Sean Sullivan, 55, the principal of All Hallows and a coach of its baseball team, told the New York Times, "They took the parks away from my kids, and now our team is a bunch of gypsies."

While the stadium was built in record time, building replacement parks for the community seems to be at a stand still, causing some to question the cities priorities.

Meanwhile city officials assure the public that the rebuilding of city parklands is a priority and that a finished product will be seen in the not-so-distant future.

"When people look back they don't say. 'Did it take longer than we thought?' " Adrian Benepe, the city's parks commissioner told the New York Times, "They say, 'Did it deliver what it promised?"

"The Yankees haven't necessarily sat by idly," agrees reporter Jamie Insalaco,"they provided money for buses for at least one year and yes, most of the projects are finished, but it's hard to accept the cold irony of taking away the kids place to play baseball in favor of a new Yankee Stadium and not expediting the construction of the new park."

While those nearby are affected by the loss in parkland, the new stadium has proven to be a great source of revenue for the lucrative baseball franchise and most seem to be in support the construction of the stadium overall.

"I'm not saying the Yankees don't do things for the community," Insalaco said, "but its time to step up. They have the means, they just need to act. "

Rates of animal cruelty and neglect in rural areas outside of San Fransisco triple in some areas according to an article by the New York Times.

While accounts of animal abuse and neglect are what experts consider to be very low within the city, people who live outside city limits don't have the same access to affordable places to spay and neuter their animals, which could be part of the problem.

"The number of animals destroyed each year reveals the disparity," according to an analysis by the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, "dogs and cats are up to 30 times more likely to be euthanize in surrounding and outlying counties than in San Francisco."

Experts also point to so-called 'backyard breeders' who breed animals for profit with little regard for their well fare or living conditions.

While steps can be taken to rescue endangered animals little is often done to rep-remand those who abuse their animals due to fear that they will refuse release of their animals if they were to be punished, or worse, kill them.

California is no stranger to issues surrounding animal cruelty and recently faced Proposition 2, which, according to the Los Angeles Times required, "that confined cattle, pigs and chickens have enough space to lie down, stand up, turn around freely and extend their limbs. Because there are few veal producers in the state and the largest pork producer here has already said it would eliminate small crates, the initiative would apply to the 19 million laying hens in California."

While no solution is currently in motion experts agree that something must be done.

There is no evidence linking enhanced cognitive development in babies and educational videos according to a new study released in March by the Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

The study published in the journal Pediatrics, monitored over 800 children from birth until the age of three. Children from the age of six months to a year watched approximately 0.9 hours of TV per day. The number of viewing hours increased steadily as the child aged: 1.2 hours at one year, and 1.4 hours at two years.

The 872 children were administered two I.Q. tests by staff at Harvard Medical school in order to test their cognitive development including vocabulary and reasoning ability.

In contrast to claims made by distributors of baby educational videos the study suggested that the children who spent more time viewing TV had lower language and visual motor skills at age three.

"There's still more evidence of harm then benefit," Marie Evens Schmidt, a developmental psychologist instructor at Harvard Medical School told CNN.com, "as far as TV viewing in infancy is concerned."

Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett has a lot on her plate. Positioning herself as a global ambassador, Blanchett lends her time, financial support and celebrity to promoting her latest philanthropic project, Clean For LIfe.

Clean for Life works to ensure the availability of clean water to people around the world.

"It's an initiative to help people whose futures are being dominated by simple, basic problems," Blanchett told Marie Claire Magazine, "It helps the people in Asia who experience water shortages or are forced to consume contaminated water."

"With the current state of affairs, correcting measures still can be taken to avoid the crisis to be worsening," the World Water Council announced, "There is a increasing awareness that our freshwater resources are limited and need to be protected both in terms of quantity and quality."

Cate has personally donated three million liters of clean water to those in need, which was matched by P&G's Children's Safe Drinking Water Program.

The actress has paired with PUR, a product which turns dirty and potentially contaminated water into clean, drinkable water in efforts to find a solution to the global water shortage which impacts less-fortunate nations.

"At the moment there are 1 in 8 people who have no access to clear drinking water (about a billion people worldwide!)," Blanchett told Marie Claire Magazine, "which can make you feel quite overwhelmed. But the positive thing is that this genius technology already exists and it's easy for each of us to make a difference."

Astronomer Adam Frank has spent most of his life looking upwards towards the sky in search of far away galaxies and supernovas. But recently he's begun to look inwards, in search of common ground that could help link together both science and religion.

According to Frank, the endless debates that pit scripture against scientific evidence has only been a hindrance to civilization. Moreover, Frank emphasizes religion's place within the scientific community.

"I consider myself an evangelist of science," Frank told the Rochester City Newspaper, "I love science and the perspective it brings. Once you're trained in science you see everything through that filter. The sense that there is more, that there is a sacred quality to experience, came to me through science."

Frank explains how both supporters of science and supporters of religion have to learn to respect each other without discrediting each other. While Frank supports aspects of the new atheists perspective, he still acknowledges the 50,000 years we've spent encountering questions that still have no explanation through science.

"If you look at the world's mythological heritage you'll find every scientific possibility for cosmology, "Frank told the City Newspaper," [including] the universe is infinite or it got started from nothing."

While Frank doesn't affiliate with any particular organized religion, he recognizes the gaps that are present when one is eliminated.

"Religion is irrational," agrees Johnathan Lanman in an article published by the San Fransisco Chronicle, "But so is atheism."

According to Frank both science and religion must find a way to co-exist if we are to have a future on this planet. In places where one is not supposed to exist, you can find the other.

"You look at pictures from the Hubble telescope and get a feeling of awe," Frank told the City Newspaper, "Scientists say don't try and connect it to anything spiritual. But Rudolf Otto, one of the great scholars of religion at the turn of the last century, identified awe as defining what he would call the experience of the holy or sacred. He said that's what you could point to if you want to understand religious feeling. That's exactly what happens when you encounter the scientific narratives."

Prosecutors in Santa Ana, California have filed four felony charges against a professional clown who is charged with raping a 12-year-old girl nine years ago, according the Star Tribune.

On Monday, Jose Guadalupe Jimenez, 41 was arraigned on charges of sexual assault of a child and forcible lewd act on a child under 14, reported The Orange County Register.

The Orange County Register reports that Jimenez worked as a clown for nine years under the name "El Tin Larin". Prosecutors say he was dressed in his clown costume in January 2002, when he abducted a 12-year-old girl outside a Taco Bell in Fullerton, CA.

According to the District Attorney's office, Jimenez pulled the girl into his car where he raped her. He then drove to a hotel, where the girl escaped to a nearby gas station, said prosecutors.

It wasn't until last year when Jimenez was arrested for another crime in Anaheim, CA that police were able to collect DNA and match it to the 2002 clown rape case, which he was arrested for last Friday.