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  • Some desperation pies, like green tomato pie, still enjoy niche popularity today.
    In Lean Times, Creative Bakers Turn To Desperation Pies
    Vinegar pie and green tomato pie don't usually top the list of America's favorite sweets. But in Depression-era America, these and other desperation pies that survive today showed off home cooks' ingenuity.
  • Revised Plan Ready for New Gulfport Casino
    GULFPORT, Miss. — Developers of Gulfport's waterfront Harbor Town Casino say they will present new plans to the Mississippi Gaming Commission on July 19.…
  • 20 Blighted New Orleans Properties to be Auctioned in July
    A former hospital is among 20 blighted properties being auctioned this month in New Orleans.A city news release says the former River of Life hospital was…
  • Essence 'Youth Day' Kicks off in New Orleans
    Opening day of the Essence Music Festival is kicking off with events geared for the young.Crime, education and issues affecting today's youth will be…
  • Christopher Beha is an associate editor at <em>Harper's</em> magazine and the author of <em>The Whole Five Feet</em>.
    Christopher Beha, On Faith And Its Discontents
    The author's What Happened to Sophie Wilder features a convert to Catholicism and another character who struggles to understand her faith. Beha talks about his Catholic upbringing, irony's place in fiction and literature's therapeutic aspects.
  • Mobile devices are key to Facebook's growth potential. Can it deliver?
    Facebook Narrowly Beats Revenue Expectations; Market Isn't Impressed
    The company released its first earnings report as a publically traded company Thursday.
  • South Africa Chasing 'Zero Deaths, Zero Stigma'
    As the 19th International AIDS Conference continues in Washington D.C., Tell Me More looks at the epidemic in Africa. More than 5 million people are living with AIDS in South Africa — more than in any other country. But Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, health minister of South Africa, says things may be changing for the better. He's in town for the conference, and he speaks with host Michel Martin about how changing attitudes towards testing and medicine are easing the country's staggering epidemic.
  • Rebecca Smith, owner of A.D. Morgan, speaks Thursday at a Tampa, Fla., event to denounce President Obama's statements about small businesses. The event was organized by the Romney campaign. At left is Lou Ramos of Value Enterprise Solutions.
    Romney Backer Explains Why Obama's Wrong, Despite Her Firm's Gov't Contracts
    Rebecca Smith owns a construction-management firm that does a lot of work overseeing the building of schools, jails and other projects for state and local governments. She explains why she is "disgusted" by President Obama's thesis that government had a significant role in her success.
  • A Minute-By-Minute Account Of the Norway Massacre
    On July 22, 2011, Anders Breivik killed 77 people and injured hundreds more when he bombed government buildings in Oslo, Norway and then went on a shooting rampage at a summer camp. GQ correspondent Sean Flynn documents the "beat-by-beat horrors of those terrifying 198 minutes" in the August issue.
  • Woman pleads guilty to stealing from nonprofit
    A woman who served as chief financial officer of a Metairie nonprofit company has pleaded guilty to a charge she embezzled nearly $250,000 from her former…
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