Bacon

MAY 25--Meet Lonneshia Shafaye Appling. The Georgia woman, 26, was so determined to shoplift beer, bacon, cheese, and chicken wings from a Piggly Wiggly that she punched, spit at, and pepper-sprayed store workers who confronted her as she tried to flee the ...  

In celebration of all things bacon, Royal Oak will host the first ever Michigan BACONFEST, June 2 at the Royal Oak Farmer’s Market. The event is already sold out, so if you’re lucky enough to have your hands on a ticket, here’s a preview of what’s ...  

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Who's going to win the European Championship? Time to ask an elephant - or a pig. Poland's answer to Paul the Octopus - the tentacled tipster who gained worldwide fame for his 2010 World Cup predictions - is Citta the elephant.  

I am not a fan of potato salad. I know people love it. I even have a friend that eats potato salad sandwiches (he mean't to do it)! I just don't like the cold mayonnaise and mustard covered potatoes. All that being said, I loved this potato salad.  

Desmond Hatchett, of Knoxville, Tenn., has petitioned the state of Tennessee for relief of his child-support obligations. It seems that the 33-year-old minimum-wage earner has to divide 50 percent of his earnings with the 11 women with whom he ...  

"I believe that these children were coerced into saying that bad things were happening to them or that bad things were happening to them so that their mother's rights would be terminated..." Ville Platte business owners Marla and Barry Giglio ...  

Cameroon launched a pig vaccination program after an outbreak of erysipelas in the southwest region, said Agbaw Takang Robert, the regional delegate for livestock, fisheries and animal industries. All pig farmers in the region are required to ...  

America's love for bacon has reached a fever pitch in the past few years and now, this bacon mania has spawned a new trend: Bacon tourism. You can pretty much eat your way across America all year long, from one sizzling bacon festival to another!  

I’ve written blog posts over the past couple of years on many different topics, but this one, the fifth installment of the What Women Want BPI series on bacon brands, has got to be the hardest – because I have very little to say. You see, I ...  

Actress Q'orianka Kilcher climbs from a makeshift platform on the anchor chain of the "Clipper Hope" cargo ship and returns to the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior" near the port of São Luis do Maranhão, Brazil. The day protest is currently ...  

U.S. hog producers may have to “temper” expectations for pork shipments to China this year as the world’s biggest pork consumer ramps up production, said Joel Haggard of the U.S. Meat Export Federation. “We see through the remainder of ...  

“Sowvivor: Outwit…Outplay… Outlast Diabetes.” The largest fundraiser of the year for American Diabetes Association, Kiss-a-Pig, ended on Saturday, May 19 at a gala at the Hyatt Regency Savannah. The campaign raised $326,000. A regional ...  

Full disclosure: Adam Baldwin is a contributor to this site and a friend of mine, but he just became my hero. Our friends at Twitchy have the details: Last night Twitchy reported that actor Alec Baldwin dipped his toes into the pool of ...  

BAY CITY, MI — Headlining this year's Labadie Pig Gig is 2011 "American Idol" winner Scotty McCreery. McCreery hits the stage Aug. 4. “He is an extremely talented young man,” said Wendy Dore, Pig Gig organizer. “He just turned 18, and ...  

Students at St. Dominic School can’t wait to see their pig on the streets of downtown Cincinnati. The school is taking part in this summer’s Big Pig Gig, an art project sponsored by ArtWorks and C-Change to honor the city’s Porkopolis ...