METEPEC, Mexico (AP) — The first time he met a pope, Mexican craftsman Hilario Hernandez could not believe his luck. He did not travel to the Vatican as a guest, but as the guardian of the fragile ceramic piece he had created as a gift for Benedict XVI. “No one really planned to take me ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A baby elephant at the Oregon Zoo had more tricks than treats to show when handlers gave it a small pumpkin to play with during an annual fall event where giant elephants smash half-ton pumpkins. Weighing just 775 pounds, eight-month-old Asian elephant Tula-Tu is about ...
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Remain” by Sparks/Shyamalan (Random House) 2. “Gone Before Goodbye” by Witherspoon/Coben (Grand Central) 3. “Always Remember” by Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life) 4. “The Secret of Secrets” by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 5. “The Intruder” by Freida ...
NEW YORK (AP) — With Halloween on the horizon, Chicago Costume is stuffed. Packaged costumes, including superheros and Japanese animation characters in both kid and adult sizes, dangle near colorful wigs and bottles of fake blood. Downstairs, vintage clothes from the 1970s beg for one more ...
(AP) — My beets were slow to grow this year, so I bought a bunch at the farmers’ market. I was taken aback when the seller chopped off the vegetable’s foliage and attempted to discard it after handing me a sad sack of leafless roots. “Wait! I’ll take those, please,” I blurted, ...
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Alchemised” by SenLinYu (Del Rey) 2. “The Secret of Secrets” by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 3. “Tourist Season” by Brynne Weaver (Slowburn) 4. “The Primal of Blood and Bone” by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Blue Box) 5. “One Dark Window (deluxe ed.)” by ...