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JUNEAU, Alaska - Alaska officials say bags of chopped romaine lettuce are being recalled over concerns of potential listeria contamination. Meanwhile, a California farm said Thursday it was voluntarily recalling bags of chopped romaine lettuce because of possible contamination, though no illnesses have been reported.
The Alaska Department of Conservation has confirmed that the 2-pound bags of chopped romaine lettuce from True Leaf Farms of Salinas, Calif., which have a use-by date of Sept. 29, were distributed in Alaska by Church Brothers, LLC.
The Los Angeles Police Department is asking for the public’s help in searching for a woman nicknamed the Sexy Robber, who committed an armed heist in Van Nuys, Calif, on Sept. 19.
The high-heel-clad criminal “posed as a customer and then pulled a gun out of her purse,” according to an LAPD statement. While police are not disclosing the exact location of the robbery, it appears from security camera images to be a jewelry store.
Alaska’s sole congressman says he wants to eliminate every federal regulation issued since 1991 – a proposal that could touch everything from food and drug safety to banking to health care to oil drilling.
Republican Rep. Don Young told the Anchorage Downtown Rotary Club on Tuesday that he drew the line at 20 years ago “because it crossed party lines and also we were prosperous at that time,” The Anchorage Daily News reported. “And no new regulations until they can justify them.”
The confetti is thrown. The champagne is raised. The New Year has arrived. Time to vote?
The accelerated election schedule may not be that jarring, but it could be close. States pushing up the dates of their primaries in an effort to gain more influence could mean the contests to select a Republican challenger to President Obama would start a full 11 months before the general election.
Even though both political parties tried to avoid a repeat in 2012 of a similar scenario in 2008 by delaying early presidential primaries and caucuses, states are leapfrogging their dates, threatening to push the first Republican contests into the early part of next year.
Our financial state is pretty scary right now, and we’re all watching our spending pretty closely. So what’s the one thing Americans are willing to shell out for in this economy? Costumes, decorations and entertainment designed to scare us even more.
According to the National Retail Federation, Americans plan to spend $6.9 billion this year for Halloween. To put that number into context, the same NRF survey found that Americans planned to spend $3.3 billion as recently as 2005.
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"I'm trembling," my mother says, when I tell her I'm working on an article about how younger and older American Jews are reacting differently to the Palestinians' bid for statehood at the United Nations. I understand the frustrations of the Palestinians dealing with ongoing settlements construction and sympathize with their decision to approach the U.N., but my mom supports President Obama's promise to wield the U.S. veto, sharing his view that a two-state solution can be achieved only through negotiations with Israel.
"This is so emotional," she says as we cautiously discuss our difference of opinion. "It makes me feel absolutely terrible when you stridently voice criticisms of Israel."
