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Recipe for higher sales: Add fiber, cinnamon 07/11/2014 10:00am • CANDICE CHOI AP Food Industry Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- General Mills hopes a pinch of cinnamon and a dash of fiber will be a recipe for stronger sales.The Minneapolis-based company is doing things like adding more cinnamon to its Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and rolling out fiber-packed "better for y Stigmatized nuclear workers quit Japan utility 07/11/2014 04:32am • YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) -- Stigma, pay cuts, and risk of radiation exposure are among the reasons why 3,000 employees have left the utility at the center of Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster. Now there's an additional factor: better paying jobs in the feel good solar energy industry. Twins brew up self-serve beer for All Star Game 07/11/2014 03:56am • KYLE POTTER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- It's BYOB at the home of the Minnesota Twins for this week's All Star Game.As in, Be Your Own Bartender.Just in time for the Home Run Derby, Target Field in Minneapolis put in two self-serve beer machines in the stands behind first and third base, let Exclusive: NCIX says Chinese hackers 'getting faster and smarter' 07/10/2014 05:46pm • WASHINGTON -- "The average computer, fresh out of its packaging, can become infected within minutes of being plugged in. It can take longer to download software that protects a computer system than for a hacker to gain entry," the National Security Agency says. Millions of times a day, hackers Attack of the Japanese beetles: Eradicating them the safe and easy way 07/10/2014 04:00pm • WASHINGTON -- Josefine over in Boyds has met the Beatles. Well, the Japanese beetles, that is. She writes: "They are turning my Japanese maple into a lacy-leafed mess! Using something like Spectracide to kill them is not an option, as lots of hummingbirds use this tree to access their nectar fee Obama aims to shift border crisis political debate 07/10/2014 01:50pm • JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Faced with a potentially awkward scene at the Texas-Mexico border, President Barack Obama sought to recast the political debate over a flood of young migrants as a question of Republican willingness to tackle the problem, not his decision Obama aims to shift border crisis political debate 07/10/2014 01:50pm • JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Faced with a potentially awkward scene at the Texas-Mexico border, President Barack Obama sought to recast the political debate over a flood of young migrants as a question of Republican willingness to tackle the problem, not his decision McConnell blames Obama for immigration crisis 07/10/2014 01:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate's top Republican is blaming Obama administration policies for the arrival of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors at the nation's southern border. And Mitch McConnell says the president's emergency spending request amounts to more of the same.On the Senate floor to Cavs agree to 3-way trade, make room for James 07/10/2014 10:16am • TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writers CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Cavaliers have cleared a path for LeBron James to return to Cleveland.They've made their moves. They're just waiting for him to make his.The Cavs created enough salary-cap space to offer the superstar free agent a maximum contract on Wednesday agre NIH workers upset they weren't told about smallpox 07/10/2014 07:39am • BETHESDA, Md. -- Some workers at the National Institutes of Health's Bethesda campus are upset they were not kept in the loop about the deadly smallpox virus found there last week. Decades-old vials containing the smallpox virus were found in an NIH storage room on July 1. They were sent to t Official in scalping case gives up credential 07/10/2014 03:10am • GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The director of a World Cup hospitality company implicated in ticket scalping surrendered his tournament credentials on Thursday.The MATCH group, which owns rights to sell World Cup hospitality tickets, says Ray Whelan denies wrongdoing.MATCH ack Simon first in NL to win 12, Reds beat Cubs 4-1 07/09/2014 11:16pm • JOE KAY AP Baseball Writer CINCINNATI (AP) -- Alfredo Simon leads the National League in wins. He's still hoping to be added to the All-Star team.Simon became the NL's first 12-game winner and Billy Hamilton added to his sensational series with a tiebreaking triple Wednesday night, sending the Cinci Cubs lose season-high 6th straight, 4-1 to Reds 07/09/2014 10:46pm • JOE KAY AP Baseball Writer CINCINNATI (AP) -- The Cubs got to take a look at their future Wednesday night, starting a pair of newcomers. The result was just like the recent past.The losing goes on.Alfredo Simon became the NL's first 12-game winner and Billy Hamilton added to his sensational series w Pot gives Oregonians a reason to visit neighbor 07/09/2014 07:35pm • STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) -- Legal pot means Portlandia is going to get to know "The Couv" a little better.Mayor Tim Leavitt cut a green ribbon outside Main Street Marijuana on Wednesday, opening the doors to the first recreational marijuana store in Vancouver. The city in Cubs call up Alcantara while Barney's gone 07/09/2014 07:00pm • JOE KAY AP Baseball Writer CINCINNATI (AP) -- The Chicago Cubs are giving one of their prospects a chance to spend a couple of days in the majors.Second baseman Arismendy Alcantara was promoted from Triple-A Iowa on Wednesday to fill in while infielder Darwin Barney is on paternity leave.Alcantara,