Last week, I compiled my annual list of new and traditional holiday movies and specials for the next month (it's being published in this Friday's paper) After you eat your Thanksgiving turkey with all the fixings this Thursday, try and stomach another bellyful of all the holiday feel-good, it's-a-miracle television programming that will follow. Unfortunately, it's the usual stuff we get spoon-fed every year with Rob Lowe or (insert other TV actor's name here) finding out that, yes, it...

And it takes a great deal of effort to maintain such a consistent picking pattern so as to maintain my strangle hold on this, much maligned but still notable, position. It is difficult at times to politely ignore and refuse the advice of the multitude of good-hearted samaritans who offer unsolicited picking advice. Perhaps in admiration of my steady approach, but more likely to provide some comedic relief from his weekly witty but first-place driven approach, the picks panel administrator...

Wheat for December delivery fell 16 cents to close at $7. CHICAGO - Agricultural futures ended mixed on the Chicago Board of Trade, with wheat and soybean prices lower and corn prices up. Beef and pork futures fell on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Nine governors from the coal-hungry Midwest sign a landmark deal to cut carbon emissions, leaving the rest of the US wondering whether Washington will ever take action

HARVEY, N.D. (AP) -- Record crop prices combined with average or better yields have produced one of the best years for North Dakota farmers in decades. But commodity prices are not the only thing on t