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In this undated image released by Beef Products Inc., boneless lean beef trimmings are shown before packaging. The debate over “pink slime” in chopped beef is hitting critical mass. The term, adopted by opponents of “lean finely textured beef,” describes the processed trimmings cleansed with ammonia and commonly mixed into ground meat. Federal regulators say it meets standards for food safety. Critics liken it to pet food _ and their battle has suddenly gone viral amid new media attention and a snowballing online petition. (AP Photo/Beef Products Inc.)

Maker of 'pink slime' continues to struggle

The beef-processing company that makes the product that critics call "pink slime" continues to struggle more than a year after the initial stories on the lean bits of beef that Beef Products Inc. produced. The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/15YXsIh ) the Dakota Dunes, S.D., based company lost 80 percent ...

  • Updated: 1:28 p.m. Sunday, May 19, 2013

SC colleges look at on-campus tobacco bans

Campus-wide bans against smokers could spread to several South Carolina universities. The State newspaper of Columbia reports (http://bit.ly/110zJ7i) that at least 10 South Carolina colleges have gone tobacco free and at least five others are considering it in the country's fifth-largest tobacco-growing state. University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides ...

  • Updated: 12:08 p.m. Sunday, May 19, 2013

Mass. husband, wife thrive coaching college teams

As the final seconds of the first half ticked off during the Atlantic 10 tournament semifinal against George Washington last month, University of Massachusetts women's lacrosse coach Angela McMahon didn't like what she had seen. Her top-seeded and heavily favored Minutewomen were ahead 5-4, but they were lacking energy and ...

  • Updated: 3:51 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013

Adopted Russian orphan triumphs over challenges

Sophie snaps her fingers and, with her classmates, bounces, twirls and kicks to the tune of West Side Story's "America" blaring through the dance studio sound system. The 10-year-old, adopted from Russia by U.S. parents nearly nine years ago, is a bright-eyed, carefree fourth-grader who wakes up with a song ...

  • Updated: 1:59 p.m. Saturday, May 18, 2013
In this Friday, May 17, 2013 photo, Palestinian refugee Sulaiman al-Namodi, 92, sits outside of his house in Gezirat al-Fadel village, Sharqiya, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) east of Cairo, Egypt. As Palestinians around the world recently marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel's 1948 creation, the refugees in Gezirat al-Fadel say they have it worse than others who fled to Jordan, Syria or Lebanon. Unlike the millions who live in refugee camps in those countries, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) does not have offices in Egypt and so does not offer Palestinians in Gezirat al-Fadel assistance. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten

In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old and his family walked west for several hundred miles, crossing the Sinai Peninsula before settling in an area around 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Cairo. They ...

  • Updated: 1:48 p.m. Saturday, May 18, 2013
Julie Martin, granddaughter of Martin's Pastry Shoppe founders Lloyd and Lois Martin, sits behind the wheel of a 1950s Dodge, Wednesday May 8, 2013 in Chambersburg, Pa. the Dodge was originally used to deliver the products to farmer's markets. The business that grew out of a garage on Edgar Avenue today employs more than 500 people and makes the No. 1 branded roll in the country, sought after by celebrity chefs and sold up and down the East Coast and internationally.(AP Photo/Public Opinion, Markell DeLoatch)

In Pa., how a potato roll became famous

Inside the new visitor's center at Martin's Famous Pastry Shoppe in Chambersburg is a glimpse into how it all started. There's the garage that Lloyd and Lois Martin converted into a bakery to start their business. Then there's the 1954 Dodge Coronet that they stuffed with baked goods and took ...

  • Updated: 11:20 a.m. Saturday, May 18, 2013
File-This June 20, 1964 file photo shows Ken Venturi making the final putt on the 18th green during the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. The former U.S. Open champion has died just 12 days after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. He was 82. His son, Matt Venturi, says he died Friday May 17, 2013 in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia and an intestinal infection. (AP Photo/File)

Venturi, US Open champion and CBS analyst, dies

Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82. His son, Matt Venturi, said he died in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for ...

  • Updated: 10:14 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
Exercise rider Jennifer Patterson gallops Preakness Stakes favorite and Kentucky Derby winner Orb at Pimlico Race Course Friday, May 17, 2013 in Baltimore. The Preakness Stakes horse race is scheduled for Saturday. (AP Photo/Garry Jones)

Orb favored to take Preakness, set up Triple try

Everything's a go for Orb. The Kentucky Derby winner was in a playful mood the day before the Preakness, making faces for photographers between nibbles of grass outside his stall at Pimlico Race Course. "He's really settled in well. He seems to be energetic about what he's doing so I ...

  • Updated: 3:21 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013

2 Minnesota babies sickened by recalled tahini

State health officials say two Minnesota babies have gotten sick from bacteria matched to a recalled sesame paste product. The Minnesota Department of Health said Friday neither child required hospitalization. Both are less than 1-year-old and are recovering. Krinos Foods, in New York, recently voluntarily recalled its Tahini sesame paste ...

  • Updated: 12:11 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2009, file photo, bottles of Heinz organic tomato ketchup are on display inside Costco in Mountain View, Calif. The organic industry is gaining clout on Capitol Hill, prompted by rising consumer demand and its entry into traditional farm states. But that isn’t going over well with everyone in Congress. Tensions between conventional and organic agriculture boiled over this week during a late-night House Agriculture Committee debate on a sweeping farm bill that has for decades propped up traditional crops and largely ignored organics. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Rising consumer demands aids organic industry sway

The organic food industry is gaining influence on Capitol Hill, prompted by its entry into traditional farm states and by increasing consumer demand. That's not going over well with everyone in Congress. Tensions between conventional and organic agriculture boiled over this week during a late-night House Agriculture Committee debate on ...

  • Updated: 12:13 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
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