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Former baseball union head Miller dead at 95

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 27th

By RONALD BLUMAP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Marvin Miller was a labor economist who never played a day of organized baseball. He preferred tennis. Yet he transformed the national pastime as surely as Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, television and night games. Miller, the union boss who won free

Peanut Butter Plant Shuttered By FDA, In First-Ever Use Of New Powers, After Huge Recall

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 27th

WASHINGTON (AP) - The country's largest producer of organic peanut butter will have to prove that its facilities are clean enough to reopen. The Food and Drug Administration suspended the registration of Sunland Inc., Monday, after the New Mexico company's repeated food

ConAgra buying Ralcorp for about $5 billion

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 27th

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - ConAgra Foods is buying the private-label food maker Ralcorp for about $5 billion, which will make it North America's biggest manufacturer of cereals, crackers and other packaged foods sold under store brands. The deal caps a year of acquisitions for ConAgra, which makes

FDA suspends operations at peanut butter plant

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 27th

By MARY CLARE JALONICKAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on a New Mexico peanut butter plant that had repeated food safety violations over several years, using new authority to halt operations at facilities that may be producing unsafe food. The

2 men sentenced in Fast and Furious gun case

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 27th

By BRIAN SKOLOFFAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - Two men were sentenced Monday for their roles in a gun smuggling ring that was part of the U.S. government's botched Operation Fast and Furious, an investigation that unraveled after illegally purchased weapons turned up at the scene of a

FDA halts operations at peanut butter plant

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 26th

By MARY CLARE JALONICKAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration halted operations of the country's largest organic peanut butter processor Monday, cracking down on salmonella poisoning for the first time with new enforcement authority the agency gained in a 2011

'Two and a Half Men' actor apologizes

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 26th

By DAVID BAUDERAP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Teenage actor Angus T. Jones of the comedy "Two and a Half Men" is apologizing for a series of interviews attacking his own show, at one point calling it "filth." Jones issued a statement Tuesday saying he's sorry if his remarks reflected

Mexican beauty queen killed in shootout

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 26th

By MARTIN DURANAssociated Press CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) - A 20-year-old state beauty queen died in a gun battle between soldiers and the alleged gang of drug traffickers she was traveling with in a scene befitting the hit movie "Miss Bala," or "Miss Bullet," about Mexico's not uncommon ties

FBI: Reward helped capture fugitive in Mexico

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 26th

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A murder suspect on the FBI's most wanted list gained weight and switched identities to evade authorities for 14 years, but his notoriety and a $100,000 reward finally led to his capture, the agency said Monday. Jose "Joe" Luis Saenz was arrested in Guadalajara, Mexico, on

Ex-financier free on bail in insider trading case

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 26th

By LARRY NEUMEISTERAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A former hedge fund portfolio manager accused of enabling a quarter of a billion dollars in profits by passing along inside information in one of the largest insider trading fraud cases in history appeared in a Manhattan court for the first