lifestyles

In his early days as a vegetarian recipe columnist for the Guardian, a major British newspaper, chef Yotam Ottolenghi worried that he'd run out of ide...

NEW YORK (AP) — Free lunches, dry cleaning, massages — frozen eggs? Silicon Valley's biggest companies have long offered cushy perks to attract top ta...

OLEAN — Registration is underway for a variety of fall programs offered by the Children’s Department at Olean Public Library. The department offers pr...

This Halloween, lighten things up with luminaries. There are lots of quick, do-it-yourself projects to make the flickering lights that welcome partier...

Not so long ago there really was only one way to eat Brussels sprouts. It involved boiling the sprouts into oblivion. Once they were reduced to near m...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A gourd weighing 2,058 pounds took first prize and set a new tournament record Monday at an annual pumpkin-weighing conte...

NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's wants to explain why its burgers may not rot and that there are no worms in its beef. The world's biggest hamburger chain i...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Poison control workers say that as the e-cigarette industry has boomed, the number of children exposed to the liquid nicotine th...

Over the years, I've developed a simple system for processing the hundreds of cookbooks that cross my desk every year. It's the six-pile process. Pile...

NEW YORK (AP) — Holiday creep, it seems, is here to stay, and it's spookier than it used to be. The blending of holiday traditions — think Hanukkah bu...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's bad old days are here again — in a Halloween haunted house, that is. "Nightmare: New York," staged in a Lower East Sid...

It may not be my place to say — then again it may — but I was pretty disappointed by the decision made at Olean High School to pull the plug on the as...

Mary Carls has endured multiple sclerosis for 30 years while living life to the fullest as a wife, a mother, an employee, a community band member and ...

Much as we might like otherwise, few of us have the cash, time or energy to maintain a full bar. And that can be a bummer, particularly as we move thr...

JOAN LOWY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Just because you can talk to your car doesn't mean you should. Two new studies have found that voice-act...

NEW YORK (AP) — How much coffee do you drink every day? One cup in the morning? Or do you gulp it all day? Scientists have long known that your DNA in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — SAT scores among the nation's high school seniors remain stubbornly stagnant. The College Board, the nonprofit organization that adm...

It's true... Despite what the kids think, not all Halloween treats need to rot your teeth on contact. Which isn't to say the goodies we've gathered he...