By Alan Mozes
HealthDay Reporter

(HealthDay News) -- Although students who get free or discounted lunches through federal programs are more likely to be obese than students who don't, kids in states that set higher standards for these meals are less likely to suffer that fate, new research finds.

"Students who participate in the school lunch program tend to be more obese in general, not because of the program itself but because they usually come from lower-income households where obesity is more of a problem," explained study author Daniel Taber, a research scientist with the Health Policy Center of the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

MONTGOMERY, AL (WBRC)- The man suspected of robbing more than a dozen places across Alabama has been captured.

Andre Lavelle Webster is suspected of committing robberies in several cities along I-65 as far south as Dothan and as far north as Huntsville. Authorities arrested him in Montgomery, according to Clanton Police Chief Brian Stilwell.

Clanton police officers began looking for him after a masked man robbed the Inn of Clanton and an Exxon gas station in their area.

The serial robbery suspect always wore a white mask, perhaps a shirt covering his face, a gray hoodie, gloves and a black bag that he used to stash the money. Clanton Stillwell said he used a large, revolver-style weapon. He was also described by some victims as being very polite and encouraging when they complied with his demands.