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By Associated Press Comments Eau Claire, Mich.- There was a big upset at the annual International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship in southwestern Michigan. For the first time in 20 years, the winner was not named Krause or Lessard. Ronn Matt of Chicago won the competition Saturday afternoon by spitting a pit 69 feet at Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm near Eau Claire, just north of the Indiana border. Members of the Krause and Lessard families have dominated the event since 1992. Brian "Young Gun" Krause of Dimondale holds the world record of more than 93 feet, and has won the past two years. But Krause finished fifth Saturday with a spit of 52 feet, 10 inches. Owner Herb Teichman launched the...

Some women like reading men's health and fitness magazines. They're drawn to the funny, self-deprecating tone, the functional workout tips and the emphasis on sweat, competition and strength training. Yes, women's magazines have these elements but on a vastly diminished scale. They're fluffier, in part because beauty products and clothes are considered health-related, but also because women are still plagued by the irrational fear of "bulking up." We won't get huge without...

Email Print Order Reprint Share This Share Text tool name tool goes here By Martha Quillin - By Martha Quillin The News and Observer Tags: | | CARY -- In his professional career, David White sought out capital investors who wanted to put their money where it would serve them later in life. In his retirement, he’s Hospice of Wake County’s most prolific volunteer fundraiser, looking for donors to invest in a place that serves people at the end of life. Similar jobs, different dividends....

Burmese officials, facing criticism from human rights groups, released up to 20 student leaders after briefly holding them ahead of the anniversary of a deadly 1962 military attack on students in Rangoon. Burma's political activists said the arrests are “a misunderstanding” and called on the military-backed civilian government to show greater confidence in student leaders. The student leaders, freed late Saturday, had been arrested a day earlier and held at undisclosed locations just as they were preparing to mark the 50th anniversary of an army attack on Rangoon University. Police detained the...

When Max Timmons began looking at colleges, he boiled down his requirements. "I wanted a good school in a big city with public transportation and lots of cheap Asian food nearby," he said. The food preference was not just because Timmons, 18, expected to crave Moo Goo Gai Pan in the middle of the night. The recent St. Paul Central graduate is gluten-intolerant; his celiac disease was diagnosed when he was 13. Timmons gravitates to Asian food because it is likely to be free of wheat and other grains that he avoids. When Timmons' mother and brother also learned that they have celiac disease, the whole family altered their dining habits. They order gluten-free pizza delivered from...

By Debra J. Saundersdailynews.comPosted: 07/07/2012 11:49:52 AM PDTJuly 7, 2012 9:4 PM GMTUpdated: 07/07/2012 02:03:23 PM PDT JOHN Burton has achieved the impossible. As the author of the 2004 bill that led to California's foie gras ban,...

By Ben Boychuk and Joel Mathisdailynews.comPosted: 07/07/2012 11:49:50 AM PDTJuly 7, 2012 9:10 PM GMTUpdated: 07/07/2012 02:09:13 PM PDT Union busting: Are public employee unions becoming too powerful for the public good? Or are they a...

By Charles Krauthammerdailynews.comPosted: 07/07/2012 11:49:49 AM PDT THOUGH overshadowed by the shocking Supreme Court decision on health care, the court's Arizona immigration decision, issued three days earlier, remains far more...