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Ingredients: 3 Tbs margarine 2 cups tasso ham 4 cups medium diced onions 3 cups medium diced green bell pepper 2 cups medium diced celery 2 Tbs fresh chopped garlic 1 pound andouille sausage 3 Tbs finely diced fresh jalapeno 2 Tbs Cajun seasoning 1 cup chicken stock One 28 …

BERLIN – “There is such a lot of unbelievable things here,” 27 year-old Jay Baumgarten told me. Jay was the first newcomer from the East I spoke with in West Berlin after the Berlin Wall fell twenty years ago. It was an incredible moment. For decades East Berlin had been …

ALBANY, N.Y. – Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing retirement funds, second jobs and nest eggs wiped out by recession. “What …

Some predictions work out well, and some don’t – that’s life. But last week, I had the mother of all misfires when I recommended benching Cardinals QB Kurt Warner, who threw for 261 yards and FIVE TOUCHDOWNS against the Bears. I got off a plane Sunday night, checked the scores …

COP SULLIVAN, Afghanistan – There are few songs as mournful and haunting as Taps played for a fallen warrior, and on an isolated combat outpost (COP) in southern Afghanistan it has been sounded for David Baker, a 22-year-old Marine lance corporal who was just six weeks short of going home …

BEIRUT – An Iranian doctor who treated victims of torture at Tehran’s most feared prison has died, amid conflicting reports of a heart attack, a car accident or suicide — raising opposition accusations that the 26-year-old was killed. Revelations that protesters detained in Iran’s postelection crackdown were tortured, some to …

BELLEVILLE, Ill. – A southwestern Illinois woman accused of trying to drown her newborn daughter in a toilet has been found mentally fit for trial. Prosecutors accuse 23-year-old Elyse Mamino of Belleville of trying to kill the baby in the bathroom of a Columbia home during a party last November. …

A child who had six internal organs removed during lifesaving surgery has started school on Long Island. Heather McNamara attended her first day of third grade at an Islip Terrace school on Tuesday. Doctors say the seven-year-old was the first child in the world to undergo the groundbreaking surgery in …

You know what I think turns off voters? Not lying politicians, but lying politicians who insist they’re not lying politicians; politicians who say one thing, then do another. I know, I know: Nothing profound here. But you’d think those guys in Washington would get it there. People have had it …

Think you have a food allergy? Your symptoms could be a sign of something else. A study conducted by the U.S. government found that previous data on food allergies is significantly inaccurate, including poorly done studies and high percentages of misdiagnoses. Only about 4 percent of the adult U.S. population …