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Susie Fishbein, author of “Kosher By Design,” dropped by with some new and interesting things to cook for Passover. • Tri-Colored Matzo Ball Soup Spinach Matzo Balls(Yields 6 large matzo balls) Ingredients:2 large eggs, plus 1 egg white 2 tablespoons olive oil 4 ounces fresh baby spinach leaves ½ cup …

CHICAGO – Two predominantly black school districts are suing over the breakup of a suburban Chicago athletic league, saying racism led more than two dozen high schools to pull out and create their own, predominantly white leagues. The federal civil rights lawsuit filed Monday claims the decision to split up …

NEW YORK – The death of a 34-year-old detective who developed respiratory disease after working at ground zero is directly related to the Sept. 11 attacks, a coroner said in the first known ruling that attributes a death to recovery work at the World Trade Center site. James Zadroga’s family …

KIEV, Ukraine – Ukrainian mourners carried single red carnations and flickering candles during a solemn ceremony early Wednesday to remember the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, an event that continues to scar this ex-Soviet republic 20 years later. The April 26, 1986, pre-dawn explosion became the world’s worst ever nuclear accident, ripping …

KATMANDU, Nepal – Nepal’s communist rebels on Saturday freed eight of the 11 soldiers abducted on their way home just hours after the rebels announced a three-month unilateral cease-fire. The freed soldiers were handed over to representatives of INSEC-Nepal, a human rights group, at Jitpur village, about 500 kilometers (310 …

PARIS – Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into suspected corruption by French companies involved in the U.N. Oil-for-Food program with Iraq, judicial officials said Tuesday. Investigators will initially limit the probe to companies that paid surcharges on humanitarian contracts for trucks, medical equipment and other materials, the officials said. …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Police said a group of seventh-graders hatched an elaborate plan to cut off power and telephone service to their middle school, slay classmates and faculty with guns and knives, then escape from their small Alaska town. The arrest Saturday of six students in North Pole, a town …

NEW YORK – The Dow average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 rose slightly on Monday as Ford Motor Co.’s (F) stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings and lower oil prices lured some investors back to the market after its precipitous slide to nearly three-year lows on Friday. But the Nasdaq fell, with …

ATLANTA – Comments by friends and admirers of Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., following her death on Tuesday: —”It’s a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it’s a great morning because we have a chance to look at her …

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday’s session are J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Intel Corp., Apple Computer Inc., EBay Inc. and Yahoo Inc. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is expected to report fourth-quarter earnings of 26 cents a share. AMR …