The invention of the doughnut, which evolved from the round, fried Dutch cakes brought to colonial America, is usually attributed to Hanson Crockett Gregory, a sea captain born in Rockport, Maine. In 1947, a plaque commemorating the captain's...

Doughnuts being glazed at a Krispy Kreme store in Sydney, Australia. A doughnut, or donut, is a sweet, deep-fried piece of dough or batter. The two most common types are the torus-shaped ring doughnut and the filled doughnut, a flattened sphere...

Today's topic: The effect of your address on your newspaper. Let's begin with newspaper economics (over)simplified: A newspaper is a business. The reader pays some 20 percent of its costs, the advertiser the rest. So the readers the advertisers want are much more...

WITH ITS TWO-STORY façade of cantilevered glass, Top Pot's new building is kind of like Canlis for the rest of us--no jackets required, and you can gain entrance for a mere 89 cents. Beyond the mesmerizing doughnut counter, a picture window offers a peek...

It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool _ and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.They wore sandwich boards proclaiming, "Give Us Our Just Desserts" and "They're Carbs, Not Contraband."At issue is a...

When he first started frying up all-natural doughnuts a dozen years ago, Mark Isreal had a tough time getting consumers to bite. After all, who counts calories before grabbing a jelly-filled with their morning cup of joe?"It doesn't matter how delicious it is. Some people...