PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Rachael Ray is everywhere with her Food Network shows, best-selling cookbooks and lifestyle magazine. Now, she’s adding daytime talk show hostess to her crowded resume.
The high-energy cook who shows America how to whip up inexpensive meals in 30 minutes promises her hour-long syndicated show, debuting Sept. 18, will present “can-do” advice about cooking, travel, relationships and pop culture trends.

















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BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Rescue crews were attempting Sunday to free two humpback whales entangled in commercial fishing nets or marine rope in New England coastal waters.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Robert Brooks, the chairman of Hooters of America, Inc. who made his fortune selling chicken wings served by scantily clad waitresses, was found dead at his home Sunday, officials said. He was 69.
NEW YORK (AP) — The doctor suspected of blowing up his town house rather than allowing his ex-wife to benefit from its sale has died, nearly a week after suffering critical injuries in the blast, a hospital spokeswoman said Sunday.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who took money from jazz musician Wynton Marsalis and his manager as part of an investment plan, then spent the cash on himself, is going to jail.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 16 — Israel unleashed a fierce bombardment on targets in southern Beirut and southern Lebanon today after eight Israelis were killed and dozens wounded in a Hezbollah rocket attack on Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, using a more potent missile with a large warhead and a longer range.
METULA, Israel, Sunday, July 16 — Expanding the reach of its airstrikes, Israel on Saturday hit coastal radar installations in northern Lebanon that it said were targeting its warships and early Sunday bombed the southern suburbs of Beirut. Police investigated the site of a rocket attack by Hezbollah guerrillas at the train station in Haifa. Early Sunday, Israeli warplanes bombed the Beirut suburbs for hours.
METULA, Israel, July 15 — Expanding the reach of its airstrikes, Israel on Saturday hit coastal radar installations in northern Lebanon that it said were targeting its warships. It also struck roads in Lebanon’s north and east, with one attack killing at least 16 civilians, most of them children. Hezbollah forces continued their rocket barrage into northern Israel, striking the resort city of Tiberias for the first time.
CHICAGO (AP) — Mets right-hander Pedro Martinez went to a hospital and needed an IV after developing a fever following Friday’s game against the Cubs.
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