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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A sports bar owner in Minnesota is showing his support for the Green Bay Packers in this weekend’s game against the Chicago Bears in a very literal way — by roasting a bear. (more)

PARIS (AP) — Isabelle Caro, a French actress and model whose emaciated image in a shock Italian ad campaign helped rivet global attention on the problem of anorexia in the fashion world and beyond, has died at the age of 28. (more)

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (AP) — Ski area employees working in blustery conditions were unable to realign a lift cable that was out of place and had restarted the lift at a slower speed to off-load riders when the cable derailed, sending skiers plummeting 25 to 30 feet, the Sugarloaf resort said Wednesday. (more)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An astronomer argues that his Christian faith and his peers’ belief that he is an evolution skeptic kept him from getting a prestigious job as the director of a new student observatory at the University of Kentucky. (more)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police are looking for an armed casino bandit who escaped on a motorcycle with perhaps $2 million worth of gambling chips from the posh Bellagio hotel-casino. (more)

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — There’s only one man tough enough to take down “Walker, Texas Ranger.” And that’s Chuck Norris, Texas Ranger. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — “Call of Duty: Black Ops” blasted entertainment records this week by raking in $360 million in its first 24 hours on sale, a dramatic and lucrative indication that video games have cemented their place as mainstream entertainment on a par with movies, books and music. (more)

CAPE MAY, N.J. (AP) — Six boaters who have spent two extra days out to sea after their boat broke down were expected back on land in New Jersey on Tuesday evening. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top congressional Republican is criticizing a House GOP candidate from Ohio who wore a Nazi uniform during reenactments of World War II battles. (more)

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday as the academy honored one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most acclaimed authors and an outspoken political activist who once came close to being elected president of his tumultuous homeland. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Greg Giraldo, a stand-up comedian who specialized in rants and insult-filled roasts, has died. He was 44. (more)

White lightning, mountain dew, firewater — you know it as the illicit substance made in secret by tax-dodging mountain men and drunk by people looking to alter their reality in a serious way. (more)

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A retired circus chimpanzee is the Cezanne of simians, drawing crowds to a Brazilian zoo to watch him paint. (more)

CHIBA, Japan (AP) — Sony’s PlayStation 3 game console will work as a Blu-ray disc player for 3-D movies and music videos, not just 3-D games, with a software update download starting Sept. 21. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Military bases across the U.S. have banned the sale of a new video game that lets a player pretend to be a Taliban fighter and “shoot” U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (more)

SYDNEY (AP) — An 11-year-old boy was recovering Saturday after a sea lion mauled him at a popular Sydney zoo’s aquarium show as horrified visitors looked on. (more)

OZREM, Serbia (AP) — In a remote Serbian mountain village, they’re cooking up delicacies to make your mouth water — or your stomach churn. (more)

PORTIMAO, Portugal (AP) — A 14-year-old Dutch sailor departed in secrecy from Gibraltar Saturday on her quest to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world — avoiding the media because, her manager said, she didn’t want the attention. (more)

BERLIN (AP) — It was a big shot. A big hog. And a big disappointment. (more)

CARTERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A sheriff says reality TV actress Tila Tequila complained that audience members pelted her with stones and feces during an outdoor music festival in southern Illinois. (more)