No need to knead
For physician Jeffrey Hertzberg and baker Zoe Francois, the journey to no-knead bread began innocently enough. While their toddlers learned to play the xylophone in a Minneapolis music class, Hertzberg began telling Francois about his no-knead, 5-min...
 4.9K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 105.0 Five Yankees opt to become free agents
NEW YORK World Series MVP Hideki Matsui became a free agent Monday along with New York Yankees teammates Johnny Damon, Eric Hinske, Jose Molina and Xavier Nady. Matsui and Damon both said after the Yankees six-game victory over Philadelphia last w...
2.0K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 164.0 Abdul-Jabbar being treated for rare form of leukemia
NEW YORK Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is being treated for a rare form of leukemia, and the basketball great said his prognosis is encouraging. The NBA s all-time leading scorer was diagnosed last December with chronic myeloid leukemia, he told The Associa...
3.4K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 82.0 NBA: Nash has 20 assists in win
PHILADELPHIA Jason Richardson scored 29 points, Steve Nash added 21 points and tied his season-high with 20 assists and the Phoenix Suns beat the Philadelphia 76ers 119-115 on Monday night. The Suns eclipsed the 100-point barrier for the eighth str...
3.6K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 171.0 U.S. troops likely for Afghanistan in January
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there. The White House emphasized that the president hasn t made a deci...
3.3K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 135.0 Women of the Year:
NEW YORK Even for a venue as grand as New York s Carnegie Hall, there was a pretty dazzling concentration of star power at Glamour magazine s Women of the Year awards. Pop star Rihanna was there, in the most body-hugging of gowns. Tennis star Seren...
4.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 129.0 Navajo Code Talkers will take their place in NYC vet parade
NEW YORK The famed Navajo Code Talkers, the elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code stymied the Japanese in World War II, fear their legacy will die with them. Only about 50 of the 400 Code Talkers are believed to be still alive, most living in t...
5.7K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 210.0 Hockey greats join Hall of Fame
TORONTO Steve Yzerman has one regret when looking back on his Hall of Fame career: He wishes he didn t return to ice four years ago after the NHL lockout. I really debated should I come back, is this the right thing or not? the former Red Wings ca...
3.4K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 177.0 NFL: Saints and Colts stay perfect for season
The New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts keep finding ways to win. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers finally learned how Sunday. The Saints and Colts each improved to 8-0 with come-from-behind victories. The Bucs are a meager 1-7 but they gained a glimme...
7.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 219.0 Officials: Woman had 20 dogs buried in yard
SELDEN, N.Y. (AP) Authorities in New York say a woman who had about 20 dead dogs buried in her backyard on Long Island faces a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge. Suffolk County SPCA official Roy Gross said five dogs were found in small cages withou...
0.8K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 82.0 Al-Qaida training sites are harder to locate
WASHINGTON (AP) Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to...
1.5K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 82.0 Sports Shorts: Sooners fall from football rankings
NEW YORK Over the past decade, Oklahoma has rarely been out of the AP Top 25 and Stanford has rarely been in. On Sunday, the Sooners and Cardinal sort of swapped places. Oklahoma dropped out of the college football poll for the first time since 200...
3.3K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 82.0 Beasts of the East? Try the Nasty North
The toughest divisions to make a living in the NFL these days are not the NFC or AFC East. This popular notion has gone the way of the efficient offense in Washington and Buffalo. It s disappeared. To find the most competitive climate in pro football...
5.9K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 122.0 Ramirez stays with Dodgers
NEW YORK ” Manny Ramirez decided to stay with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday, and baseball s trade market sprang to life with a pair of swaps two days after the World Series. Rather than become a free agent, Ramirez exercised his $20 m...
4.4K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 82.0 NYC woman sentenced in dad s killing
NEW YORK (AP) A New York City woman convicted of killing her father and mutilating his body has been sentenced to five to 15 years in prison. After Friday s sentencing, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown called the crime deeply disturbing and s...
1.1K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 129.0 Researching how best to evade deer
GLENVILLE, N.Y. ” Covered in his old forest camouflage, Steve Balser proved he s nearly invisible to humans. His hunting partner walked within 25 feet and didn t see him. I m just not that sure about deer, Balser said. His suspicions are back...
4.6K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 105.0 Iran covered up rape of detainees
Iran covered up rape of detainees CAIRO (AP) An international human rights group said Friday it has documented three cases of sexual assault against detainees arrested during Iran s postelection turmoil, including one that was supported by an offic...
3.2K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 82.0 NJ jurors convict Florida man in 'fat defense' trial
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) ” A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man s defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway. Edward A...
3.4K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 135.0 Sports Briefs: Woods holds share of lead with Watney
SHANGHAI Tiger Woods has shot another 5-under 67 in the HSBC Champions, this one giving him a share of the 36-hole lead with Nick Watney in the final World Golf Championship of the year. Woods overcame mild frustration early in his round Friday by ...
6.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 188.0 Jerseys put to good use
SEATTLE Rich Stearns works and lives just outside Seattle. He grew up in New York state. He lived in Philadelphia for 10 years. So he was torn as a fan watching the Yankees and Phillies in the just-completed World Series. He couldn t wait for someo...
4.6K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 159.0 | 
