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NEEDHAM, Mass. – A Massachusetts man may wish he had breakfast in bed instead of in his car. Police said a man who was stopped for erratic driving on Central Avenue last week was eating a bowl of cereal and milk while he drove. He told officers he was hungry. ... Schlittler didn't know what kind of cereal the driver was eating.

Police in Needham pulled over a man who was allegedly driving while trying to eat a bowl of cereal - with milk, according to Wicked Local Needham. The 48-year-old driver, who is from Needham, was apparently spotted driving erratically by other drivers. According to the report, callers told police the driver was "all over the road." He was crossing over the double yellow line and tailgating other vehicles. When police finally pulled the man over, they allegedly found a bowl of cereal with milk, which was still cold, inside the car, the site reports. The man told police he was...

AN OPEN LETTER TO KELLOGG'S February 8, 2009 -- Whereas . . . 1) Kellogg's is a major manufacturer of cereal and junk food products including but not limited to Frosted Flakes, Pop Tarts, Cheez-Its, Froot Loops, Keebler's Cookies, Rice Krispies, Eggo Frozen Waffles, Famous Amos Cookies and many other products known to be a part of the diet of many marijuana using Americans. 2) The Kellogg's has profited for decades on the food tastes of marijuana using Americans with the munchies. In fact, we believe that most people over the age of 12 would not eat Kellogg's products were...

Tony the Tiger, and Snap, Crackle and Pop have been branded "cartoon villains" by a U.K. consumer watchdog called Which? for failing to promote healthy eating in children. Other well-loved characters under fire include Coco the Coco Pops monkey and Quicky the Nesquik Bunny.

Salmonella Risk Spurs Cereal Recall Malt-O-Meal Recalls Unsweetened Puffed Rice, Puffed Wheat Sold Under Various Names By Miranda Hitti WebMD Medical News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD April 8, 2008 -- Because of salmonella risk, Malt-O-Meal is recalling its unsweetened puffed rice and puffed wheat cereals with "Best If Used By" dates ranging from April 8, 2008 (coded as "APR0808") to March 18, 2009 (coded as "MAR1809"). Salmonella bacteria can cause symptoms including diarrhea, fever, nausea, and abdominal pain. Severe cases of salmonella infection can be life-threatening. No illnesses linked to the recalled cereals have been reported. The recalled cereals...

Latest research by scientists in Australia suggests that eating sugary breakfast cereals can improve the memory of teenagers. Earlier studies have shown mixed results with some researchers saying that sugary cereals could contribute to obesity while others claiming that it may sharpen the brain. As part of the new study, scientists studied 37 students, aged 14 to 17, who ate a popular corn-based cereal with a high Glycaemic Index or a high fibre bran-based cereal with a low Glycaemic Index. The researchers then tested the students to see how well they could memorise a list of 20 names of tools,...

SYDNEY, Australia - Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday he hadn't rule out making a second bid for the White House, though he said it was unlikely. Gore spoke to reporters in Sydney, where he was promoting the local premiere of his documentary on global warming. "I haven't completely ruled out running for president again in the future but I don't expect to," Gore said before the Sunday night premiere of "An Inconvenient Truth." "I offer the explanation not as an effort to be coy or clever. It's just the internal shifting of gears after being in politics almost...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio State Buckeyes are now part of a complete breakfast. Buckeye Heroes, the newest university-licensed food, will be available in grocery stores before No. 1 Ohio State opens its season Saturday against Northern Illinois at Ohio Stadium. The box of honey-nut-flavored toasted oats features three mascots -- former Buckeyes linebackers and current NFL rookies A.J. Hawk, Bobby Carpenter, and Anthony Schlegel. "We couldn't make them 'block Os,' so we made them Os," said Rick Van Brimmer, director of trademark and licensing services at Ohio State. The cereal will cost $3.49 for a 14-ounce box at Kroger...

They are the new breed of mortgages, and home buyers in high-cost real estate markets can't get enough of them: interest-only and payment-option plans that cut monthly payments sharply in the early years of a loan. Lenders have marketed both types of mortgages aggressively -- often to people who need to stretch their incomes to afford homes -- but have said often that their borrowers have solid credit histories and excellent credit scores and that they fully understand the risks once payments reset in a few years. In some parts of the country, the share of buyers using interest-only and...

Former US Vice President Al Gore poses with the Davis Guggenheim, the director of the film "A Inconvenient Truth", which Gore helped make. Six years after barely losing the most contested presidential race in recent US history, Gore has ridden a popular new film on global climate change to the center of American politics

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2006 – Five recipients of the 2005 Very Important Patriot Award from the military community will be "appearing" on commissary cereal shelves worldwide this summer. The National Military Family Association's 2005 Very Important Patriot Award winners are featured on special edition boxes of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. (Left to right) Michele Canchola, Marine Cpl. Jeffrey Caraway, Marine Sgt. Clinton Firstbrook, Chris Zaehringer, and Robert Davison are the 2005 honorees. The boxes, available only in commissaries worldwide, began shipping in May and will be available throughout the summer or as long as supplies last. Courtesy photo  (Click photo for...

"...But Mr Gore, fresh from an appearance at the Cannes film festival, delivered a starker message that the world was now facing a "danger which could bring the end of civilisation."

05-05-2006 10:00 am “Might everything disappear? Species, languages, cultures, values…” is the theme to be debated at the next 21st Century Talks to be held at UNESCO on 9 May 2006 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, (Room II). Chaired by the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, and moderated by Jérôme Bindé, Deputy Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences and Director of the Division of Foresight the talks will bring together four personalities of international renown. Jean Baudrillard teaches sociology at the Universities of Paris IX and X and lectures internationally. His numerous published works include: The Consumer Society: Myths and...

John Lennon once wrote that "All you need is love." If that's the case, former presidential candidate Al Gore is a happy man. He is in the middle of a media lovefest celebrating his work, his career - even his efforts as actor, author, dancer and comedian. The former vice president has both a movie and a book about global warming debuting under the title "An Inconvenient Truth." He has gone from media darling to "the summer's most unlikely movie star," as NBC's Katie Couric called him in a May 24 interview. Gore, who Couric also called "funny, vulnerable, disarming,...

US President George W. Bush said he probably would not see the new documentary by former vice president Al Gore, seen here at the 59th edition of the Cannes Film Festival 20 May 2006. Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" focuses on the dangers of global warming.(AFP/File/Francois Guillot)

As rates rise, home foreclosures surge Adjustable-rate mortgages make it hard for many to make payments h • Foreclosure rate climbs May 25: Remember the refinance craze of the not-too-distant past, where millions of homeowners jumped on those low-interest, adjustable-rate mortgages? As NBC's Ron Mott reports, those days are over and foreclosures are on the rise. Nightly News

With current news items about mistakes in Iraq looming large in the media, I need to post what the real mistake was, because this has been annoying me for some time and I have yet to see the media make any analysis of this fact. And you sure won't be hearing this from the Left media who like to coddle the enemy in every way possible. One lesson that must be learned from Iraq is that in this modern era with all the technological advantages the US has, it is very possible that we win wars too fast and thus...

NORTHEAST FLORIDA -- The rise in foreclosures that analysts predicted would follow an easing in lending restrictions, low interest rates and creative mortgage products has emerged in metropolitan Jacksonville. Recently released data from California-based RealtyTrac Inc. showed the five-county metro area experienced a 39 percent increase in foreclosures over last year's first quarter, or 3,579 foreclosures for the first three months of this year compared with 2,570 for the same period in 2005. The increase was just above the national foreclosure increase of 38 percent for the first quarter, which RealtyTrac analysts said could mean foreclosures going above 1.2 million...

So the current buzz is stating that the Democrats are finally waking up to what we've known since 1993: Hillary is a disaster waiting to happen. And who are they increasingly looking to as their savior? Why, Al Gore of course! This leads me to ask a simple question, just for fun: Which is the greater evil: Hillary or Al Gore? Which one would scare you more if they made it to the White House?

"The most vulnerable part of the Earth's environment is the very thin layer of air clinging near to the surface of the planet, that we are now so carelessly filling with gaseous wastes that we are actually altering the relationship between the Earth and the Sun - by trapping more solar radiation under this growing blanket of pollution that envelops the entire world," Vice President Gore told the U.N. Global Warming conference of 159 nations this morning in Koyto, Japan. In what was one the most dramatic speeches in recent memory, Gore announced to world leaders: "Whether we recognize it...

Slowdown in residential building and home sales will be felt throughout the economy; weaker jobs and consumer spending expectedNEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - You don't need to be in the market to buy or sell a home to be affected by the cooling housing market. [Everybody studies home sales] * * * because the sector has lifted * * * consumer spending and economic activity. This week has brought several new readings indicating that the super-heated real estate market of 2004 and 2005 is rapidly fading in the rearview mirror. Housing starts and building permits were down sharply in April, and...

<p>It is getting somewhat strange around these parts when not only the President, but yesterday the First Lady was personally attacked by someone claiming to be a ‘Conservative’. Can there be any doubt that there are forces among us looking to drive a wedge between us?</p>

AL Gore bumped into Avenue magazine editorial director Pamela Gross the other day at the Regency, where she told him his daughter will be on the May cover. Karenna told Avenue that during the Florida recount in 2000, "the rancor was overwhelming at times . . . There was this horrible mob outside the vice president's house that was recruited by political operatives. They just kept yelling, 'Get out of [Dick] Cheney's house.' That was really painful and rude."

God must really want those kids dead. -- South Park (S10E06) I'm like, totally cereal, guys. If nothing else, last night's episode proved that South Park is still an equal opportunity offender. In this episode, Al Gore comes to South Park to warn everyone about Manbearpig (read: global warming), a creature who is half man, half bear, and half pig. Or possibly half man and half bearpig. No one really knows for sure because Gore is apparently the only one who believes he exists. Al Gore is depicted as a crazed, friendless drifter who believes he's doing the right thing...

The summer movie season starts around Memorial Day, and movie companies are striving to turn around their box office woes of last year by putting out what they feel to be high quality films like “Mission: Impossible III,” “X-Men 3,” and “Debbie Does Everyone and Everything In Sight 26.” (But let me tell you, you almost have to see “Debbie Does Everyone and Everything in Sight 25” to get the full impact of the sequel.) Among the films vying for your ticket dollar is “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary by Al Gore addressing, surprise surprise, global warming. It hasn’t even...

Food Police Indict SpongeBob Thursday, January 19, 2006 By Steven Milloy Who would ever think that loveable cartoon characters, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, threaten public health? Well the “food police” apparently do, and this week they announced a lawsuit against Viacom and Kellogg to stop the companies from marketing snack and fun foods to kids.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A consumer group wants to keep Tony the Tiger from promoting sugary cereals on the SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon show or anywhere else kids are watching.   The Center for Science in the Public Interest said on Wednesday it would sue Kellogg Co., the maker of cereals such as Frosted Flakes, and Viacom Inc., which runs the Nickelodeon cable network, if the companies do not change some marketing practices aimed at children. The Center said letters had been sent to Kellogg and Viacom saying it would settle for a commitment from the companies within 30 days rather than sue....

In October 2004, enterpreneur Rocco Monteleone started a cereal bar called Bowls in Gainesville, Florida. Located in a college town with no other cereal bars, Bowls appeared likely to be a successful venture. However, recently cereal bar chain Cereality (which has no locations in Florida) threatened Bowls with lawsuits should Bowls tread on Cereality's turf. Cereality has patents pending to give them an exclusive right to six business methods, including "displaying and mixing competitively branded food products" and adding "a third portion of liquid." If these patents are approved by the U.S. Patent Office, Cereality would have a complete monopoly...

Anti-cancer compound found in beans, nuts, cereals Wed Sep 14, 7:03 PM ET Eating a diet rich in beans, nuts and cereals could help to prevent cancer because the foods contain a natural compound that inhibits the growth of tumors. Scientists at University College London (UCL) said on Thursday that the substance called inositol pentakisphosphate, which is also found in lentils and peas, could also help researchers develop new therapies against the disease. "Our study suggests the importance of a diet enriched in foods such as beans, nuts and cereals which could help prevent cancer," said Dr Marco Falasca, of...

An upmarket Hong Kong grocery store is being prosecuted after a customer allegedly discovered 575 beetles in a jar of cereal, officials and media reports said today. The customer, lawyer Philip Dykes, said the breakfast cereal was “too organic for my liking”, according to the South China Morning Post. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has charged the grocer store with providing “food not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser”, said Emily Mak, a department spokeswoman. The lawyer allegedly found the beetles and 17 larvae in the plastic jar, which he bought in 2003, it was...

HONG KONG -- An upscale Hong Kong grocery store is being prosecuted after a customer allegedly discovered 575 beetles in a jar of cereal he bought, officials and media reports said yesterday. The customer, lawyer Philip Dykes, said the breakfast cereal was "too organic for my liking," according to the South China Morning Post. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has charged the Great grocer store with sale of "food not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser," said Emily Mak, a department spokeswoman. The charge carries a maximum fine of 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, $1,589 Cdn,...

A Sydney man has pocketed £415 - after auctioning a piece of breakfast cereal resembling ET. Chris Doyle came up with the idea after hearing how a US woman sold an old toasted sandwich, said to look like the Virgin Mary for £15,000. Mr Doyle thought he too could be in the money when he spotted a piece of Nutri-Grain resembling ET. Collectors from around the world bid 40 times over eBay for the thumbnail-sized grain, the Daily Telegraph reported. Mr Doyle, a graphic designer, said: "I was just trying to find someone who feels the same way about ET...

Calling Suzy Oatmeal and Franny Farina Aug. 1, 2004 I have received a disturbing letter from Mr. Frank J. Phillips, who describes himself as both a patriot and a Latin teacher. I didn't realize we still had Latin teachers, but I'm glad we do, because contrary to what you think (and as a member of the news media, I know exactly what you think) Latin is not just an old dead language spoken by old dead guys who are no longer relevant because they are old and dead. In fact, Latin is the ''mother tongue'' (or ''alma mater'') of our...

By KARREN MILLS, AP Business Writer MINNEAPOLIS - Strong sales of Honey Nut Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Lucky Charms cereals, along with boosts from the acquired Pillsbury line, helped General Mills Inc. more than double its second-quarter earnings. General Mills on Wednesday reported net earnings of $276 million, or 73 cents a share, up from $131 million, or 41 cents a share, in the second fiscal quarter of last year. During the quarter, the Golden Valley-based company booked charges of $14 million, or 4 cents a share, related to relocating production from former Pillsbury facilities being closed and other...

AMID calls for a major initiative on obesity, research suggests that parents should seek an alternative to the quick-fix carbohydrate breakfast out of a box, writes Robert Matthews The experts warned that it would happen, and last week it did. The first cases of adult-type diabetes were found in teenage children, triggered by a condition now reaching worrying proportions in the UK: obesity. A year ago, medical researchers revealed that the prevalence of fat children has doubled since the mid-1980s, with more than one in 10 in this country now classed as overweight. The finding prompted dire warnings about the...

<p>WASHINGTON — Most kids expect a toy or a coupon when they reach to the bottom of a cereal box, not a hateful message or pornographic image.</p> <p>But that’s exactly what a number of unsuspecting consumers have been finding in their boxes of Honeycomb and Alpha-Bits cereal. Word of the inserts reached the ears of Washington lawmakers, who last week passed a bill that would make such product tampering a federal crime.</p>