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Apparently it’s quite simple: exercise reduces a woman’s risk of breast cancer.

As we head deeper into September, two things have become pretty clear about 2017 box office numbers: one, Hollywood desperately needs to bounce back a little bit from the doldrums of August, and two, whoever decided to hedge their studio’s bets with a September release date for a movie about a killer clown is looking like a [profanity] genius right about now. We’ll get to all of that in a moment, but first, here are the box office numbers as of Sunday afternoon:

Investigators are reportedly looking at whether the pilot made the right decisions prior to the helicopter crash that killed Montgomery Gentry singer Troy Gentry.

Don Williams, the honey-voiced country star known as the "Gentle Giant," has died after a brief illness. He was 78 years old.

Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry was killed in a helicopter crash at the Flying W Airport in Medford, N.J., on Friday (Sept. 8).

“On a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of risk to consumers, this is a 10,” according to one fraud analyst.

Hurricane Irma may do damage to Florida, but it can't destroy the human spirit.

Check out live webcam feeds from areas that are in or are close to being in the direct path of Hurricane Irma.

Stephen King adaptations are a dime a dozen these days (almost literally; rights to his books are famously cheap), but a good Stephen King adaptation, like a properly cooked steak or a movie where Harrison Ford is actually awake, is exceedingly rare. Of the two adaptations of beloved King novels released this year, the idea that IT might be the superior of the pair seemed laughable a few months ago. IT is better than The Dark Tower in every conceivable way, but beyond the inevitable comparison, it’s just really good. Scary good, even.

Mike Leach gave some incredibly memorable press conference quotes while at Texas Tech, and he's still in peak form at Washington State.