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A truck carrying bite-sized bagels accidentally dropped its load in the middle of SR-82 Monday night. The cardboard box holding the pastries broke open when it hit the pavement, leaving several thousand mini bagels all over the road near the intersection of Sunshine Boulevard. The Lee County Sheriff's Office asked the Lehigh Acres Fire Department to help clean up the mess. Officials we spoke to say no one was hurt and traffic was not affected by the bagels.

Have you noticed bagel shops tacking on a few more cents to your beloved pumpernickel and cream cheese? Blame Albany. Bagels – however you slice them – most likely haven't been subject to tax at your favorite neighborhood shop. But, desperate for cash, Albany began enforcing a little known clause in its sales tax code that calls for a tax on sliced bagels or whole bagels consumed at the place of purchase, according to The Wall Street Journal.

A Fairview police officer was on a breakfast run to a bagel shop on New Year's Day when his patrol car was struck by a limousine, police said Friday. Fairview Deputy Chief Frank Del Vecchio said the officer in the patrol car, Gino Sculco, 30, probably will not be disciplined for taking his car outside the borough. Investigators "want to see if any portion of the rules and policies were violated," Del Vecchio said of the incident. "At this point, I don't think [Sculco's actions] did." A lieutenant sent Sculco to get bagels in Fort Lee around 8 a.m. because...

About 15 tons of it on a recent day, imported from China, neatly pressed into mats and ready to ship to farmers and nursery growers who swear by the horticultural benefits of Blacker's hairy wares. The mats stored in southern Miami-Dade County are part of a world marketplace for human hair. Uses range from the obvious, such as false eyelashes and wigs, to the more obscure: it's a common raw-material source for l-cysteine, an amino acid frequently used in baked goods such as pizza dough and bagels

Mob rap in bagel boom   Feds tie S.I. attack in '01 to gangland rivals  BY ERNIE NASPRETTO and JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS  My Deli in Staten Island was the target of a firebomb attack in 2001. Only in New York would a Mafia associate nicknamed The Irishman allegedly provide a bomb used to destroy a Pakistani immigrant's deli that was competing with a bagel store protected by the mob. The feds yesterday charged reputed Gambino crime associate Edward Fisher with orchestrating the December 2001 arson attack on My Deli and Grocery in Staten Island. Police had...

Project Mustard Seed is an organized letter writing campaign directed at corporations that fund Planned Parenthood. Once a month, participants are asked to write a letter expressing opposition to a company's funding of Planned Parenthood. Project Mustard Seed gets its information about corporate supporters from Life Decisions International. If you are interested in joining the Project Mustard Seed contact the founder, David Arms, at PO Box 1951, S. San Francisco, CA 94083 or contact him by email at mseed4life@aol.com The letter recipient for March 2006 is New World Restaurant Group Inc. Operations: restaurants ( Chesapeake Bagel Bakery, Einstein Bros Bagels,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - He spent a lifetime peddling smut and once had an $11 million fortune, but after losing everything and becoming just another homeless New Yorker, Al Goldstein is now happy pushing bagels instead of porn. Goldstein, a founding father of America's porn industry, now hustles bagels and white fish at a New York-based deli and catering establishment. "I've always loved food more than sex, so this is really my first love," said Goldstein, 69, now a cold-calling salesman for New York City Bagels. "I've gone from broads to bagels." Goldstein has good reason to feel good about...

I was told that the New Bagle Worm Variant can run without launching an attachment. I'm a little confused. How do you actually get this if you don't open email attachments? And if I am using a browser other than IE, am I still susceptible?

My daughter was out getting her ears pierced before enrolling in the Navy -- we weren't sure of the age cut-off, or what the risk of infection would be, but that doesn't matter because this is a vanity -- and afterwards we got mighty hungry. I took her out to breakfast, and we had bagels. I had cream cheese on mine, she had jelly. She made fun of me, and I told her she didn't know how to eat a bagel. It made us both so mad we could've stomped our feet. To settle this feud, we thought we should...