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Lynx center McCarville is a farm girl first

As Janel McCarville sits under the homemade basketball hoop attached to the chicken coop on her farm in central Wisconsin, she mentions the assassination of her Moscow team owner while he was on his way to pick her up for a Beyoncé concert. McCarville and her father fashioned the backboard ...

In this undated photo provided by the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Carl Laemmle is shown with his children, Rosabelle and Carl Jr. Laemmle was the founder of Universal Pictures and used his connections and resources to help bring Jews over from Europe after the rise of the Nazis. An exhibition opening at the museum on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 called “Against All Odds: American Jews and the Rescue of Europe’s Refugees, 1933-1941,” documents efforts by Laemmle and others to get Jews out of Nazi-era Europe despite strict immigration quotas in the U.S. (AP Photo/Museum of Jewish Heritage/George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress)

Exhibit on US Jews who helped refugees from Nazis

An exhibition opens Tuesday at a museum in Lower Manhattan about efforts by American Jews to bring refugees to the U.S. from Europe during the Nazi era. The exhibition, "Against All Odds: American Jews and the Rescue of Europe's Refugees, 1933-41" will be on view for a year at the ...

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. makes. The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/15YXsIh ) the Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based company lost 80 percent of ...

AP top news in Iowa at 3:58 p.m. CDT

Iowa lawmakers ponder a special session DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As lawmakers struggle to complete their work and adjourn the legislative session, some wonder whether the best way to deal with a contentious health debate is to skip the matter for now and hold a special session later. It's ...

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 ...

Shuttered Hastings ethanol plant closing permanent

A Hastings ethanol plant that announced in February that it would temporarily shut down will not reopen. The Ag Processing Inc. cooperative said Friday that it is permanently shutting down the 55-million-gallon-a-year plant, citing the plant's age and high utility costs associated with running it. Officials had cited a slowdown ...

In this April 24, 2013 photo, retired logger Jim Ford stands in his shop in Grants Pass, Ore. While Ford thinks logging can still be a major part of the economy in the rural West, jobs are half what they were 20 years ago, and mills continue to close. The region continues to look for new sources of jobs and government revenues. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs

Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out. In those days the ...

Montana investigates bison deaths near Yellowstone

State veterinarians in Montana have been sent to examine bison carcasses north of Yellowstone National Park amid fears the bison might have acquired a deadly disease from domestic sheep. Pat Flowers of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks tells the Independent Record (http://bit.ly/113sjdu) that a veterinarian from his agency and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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