Julian Barnes is one of the most celebrated and most variously rewarding of Britain's younger writers--that is, those who were born in the late 1940s and began publishing in the late 1970s or the 1980s, a group that also includes Martin Amis and Ian McEw...

The Dole Fresh Fruit Co. recalled several thousand cartons of imported cantaloupes Friday after the fruit tested positive for salmonella.The recall, which covers the eastern United States and the Canadian province of Quebec, is the second sparked by salmonella fears this week.On Wednesday, ConAgra Foods...

A father-son team from this Sabine County town broke the state watermelon record three times in one summer, with melons adding up to a total weight of 677 pounds. The really big buster, at 252.4 pounds, was cut from its...

Tim and Karen Dusenbery made nationwide news earlier this month with what they called a "cuculoupe" _ a 3-foot-long somethingorother that sprang up in their garden, about midway between the cantaloupes and the cucumbers. Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa even...

The Dole Fresh Fruit Co. recalled several thousand cartons of imported cantaloupes Friday after the fruit tested positive for salmonella.The recall, which covers the eastern United States and the Canadian province of Quebec, is the second sparked by salmonella fears this week.On Wednesday, ConAgra Foods...