BERN, Switzerland (AP) — The first thing that hits you at the World Cheese Awards is the smell. As the 37th edition — part competition, part a celebration of cheese — kicked off in Switzerland on Thursday, some visitors might wish the offerings had more holes. With descriptions of ...
Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November. More than 1 billion pounds (454 million kilograms) of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the Department of Energy. Yours doesn’t have to go to waste. Experts told us your pumpkins can ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sherry Jenkins is a Halloween person by default. She lives in Blairstown, New Jersey, a rural town where much of the original “Friday the 13th” horror movie was filmed. That date is, of course, a huge draw for tourists, but the town and its residents are all in on ...
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 McFadden (Poisoned Pen) 6. “Alchemised” by SenLinYu (Del Rey) 7. “Red Rising (deluxe ed.)” by Pierce Brown (Del Rey) 8. “Twice” by Mitch Albom (Harper) 9. “Lights Out (collector’s ed.)” by Navessa Allen (Slowburn) 10. “The Picasso Heist” by Patterson/Roughan (Little, ...
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 ...
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 ...
