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The key witness in the corruption trial of Virginia's former governor and his wife said his association with the couple was fraught with bad decisions - but an affair with the first lady was not one of them.

Burger King Worldwide Inc. said its profit climbed by 19 percent in the second quarter as lower costs and growth overseas boosted results.

OSI is the US parent of Shanghai Husi Food, the factory at the heart of China's latest food safety scandal.

Edible marijuana comes with all kinds of warning labels in Colorado. But once those pot brownies and gummy bears are out of the package, they can look identical to straight-laced treats.

The Morning Sentinel reports the two-day festival will include an inflatable heart, lungs, and a 50-foot-long human body visitors can walk through to observe the way organs work.

Call it Choco-vism. South Korean activists and North Korean defectors launched balloons laden with Choco Pies at North Korea this week after the popular chocolate treat reportedly became the target of a government crackdown.

Chef and physicist Manuel Linares, the creator behind a company called IceXperience in Spain, created Xamaleon, a cutting-edge ice cream flavor that starts out one color and then changes as a person eats it, Phys.org reports.

This Feb. 2, 2009 file photo shows Kellogg's Special K cereals on display at a market in Palo Alto, Calif.

Time to confess: in high-stress times , how does your diet change? Before you start feeling defensive and insist that even in your worst week, it's all whole wheat and kale for you, be aware that if you admit to falling off the nutritional bandwagon every once in a awhile you're in good company.

In her new cookbook "The Boreal Feast: A Culinary Journey Through the North," Michele Genest explores the wild ingredients of the boreal region and incorporates them in plenty of creative recipes.

"For someone less gourmet, it tastes like a souped-up root beer float," said a spokeswoman for Dominique Ansel Bakery.

The Oakland Tribune reports about 13,000 pounds of plantains and jackfruit were donated to the zoo Wednesday after the fruit truck overturned on Interstate 580.

A woman looks at a menu with words " everyday half-price " in front of a KFC fast food restaurant in Beijing, China Thursday, July 31, 2014.

"I believe in what I would call a chitin economy. I personally believe, if properly developed, the material you can develop from chitin and the markets you could sell them in would make the shrimp shell worth more than the meat," said Rogers, an owner and founder of 525 Solutions, a startup company housed in UA's Alabama Innovation and Mentoring of ... (more)

Three years ago playwright Laline Paull began to notice bees in her garden in Sussex, southeast England.

Millennials spend big bucks on these vices What Millennials are spending on booze, coffee and fast food, by state.

French toast with enough saturated fat to last a week, a burger with more than three days worth of sodium and a stack of seafood with more than a day's worth of calories top this year's Xtreme Eating list of meals at full-service restaurant chains.

The Rev. Joe Nassal, priest at Precious Blood Center in Liberty: The context provides a clue.

The silver-haired baker is returning with fellow judge Mary Berry to the next series of The Great British Bake-Off and he said that he was now more likely to opt for pies than cakes.

McDonald's restaurants in Japan are turning to time-honoured Asian soul food - tofu - as the chain scrambles to minimise the damage from an embarrassing tainted meat scandal in China.