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How A Family-Owned Costume Shop Is Slashing Costs To Save Halloween

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 ...

How to cook, freeze or pickle plant scraps instead of throwing them away

(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, ...

Best Sellers By The Associated Press

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 ...

When food banks need bread, 900 home bakers answer the call

(AP) — On a recent Saturday near Seattle, Cheryl Ewaldsen pulled three golden loaves of wheat bread out of her kitchen oven. The fragrant, oat-topped bread was destined not for her table, but for a local food bank, to be distributed to families increasingly struggling with hunger and the ...

Datebook

AUTUMN AT Epworth — A Walk in the Park will take place noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 19 at 215 N. Main St., Bethesda. The event aims to raise funds for park improvements and is hosted by the Epworth Park Foundation. Twelve cottages will be open to tour with artists displaying their wares, baked goods, ...