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When Lamar Fleming was shot, she was preparing to have his child. But that night in March changed everything. Mr. Fleming stepped out to get a cigarette and was gunned down near their home. "After that happened, I wasn't eating or nothing," she recalled this month. At the time of the murder, she was about nine weeks pregnant. But days after her husband's death, she had a miscarriage. She had to deliver the unborn baby the day after his funeral, she said. It was almost a relief. "I didn't want to deal with another child, and he was gone," she said. Ms. Smith has five children, three of whom are Mr. Fleming's offspring. They're all between the ages of 1 and 9. Since her husband's death, she's had to go through a lot on her own - their daughter's kindergarten graduation, his birthday and holidays.
Crashed-plane pilot's condition improves; officials look for answers
Hal Edward McCord Jr., who crash-landed a small plane Friday night near Florida State University's campus, spent Saturday recuperating in the hospital. McCord, who was pulled from the wreckage by rescue workers, has a broken knee and collarbone as well as punctures, cuts and bruises all over his body, his father Hal McCord Sr., of Alligator Point, said Saturday. .
46 places for Valentine's Day dinner
Share a romantic dinner with a 12-inch, heart-shaped pizza, salad, ravioli, wine and dessert. Valentine's Day Dinner, 7605 E. Pinnacle Peak Road, Suite 1, Scottsdale. $75 per person. 480-585-6555. 56 East Bar & Kitchen: 6-9:45 p.m. Feb. 14. A five-course dinner that ends in a duo of heart-shaped chocolate desserts with coffee granita for dessert. Reservations required. Valentine's Day Dinner, 7131 W. Ray Road, Chandler. $40 per person. 480-705-5602. Alchemy: 5-8:30 p.m. Feb. 14. The three-course meal includes a choice of pork tenderloin, fish, duck or lobster tail, followed by dessert. Valentine's Day Dinner, CopperWynd Resort and Club 13225 N. Eagle Ridge Drive, Fountain Hills. $72 per person. 480-333-1900. Elements: 5:30-11 p.m. Feb. 14. A four-course Valentine's Day menu.
Mark Hix: Chicken escalope Holstein
Put one breast on a sheet of clingfilm that is at least double its size. Carefully with a meat or cutlet bat (a rolling pin or side of a cleaver will do), bat each breast out into a neat cm- thick escalope. Season with salt and pepper then lightly coat with flour, patting any excess off with your hands, before passing them through the beaten egg and finally the breadcrumbs. Heat about 1cm of oil in a frying pan and cook the escalopes for 2-3 minutes on each side until golden then add a knob of butter at the end of cooking and turn them once more. Meanwhile, lightly fry the eggs and place one on each escalope, then arrange the anchovies around the yolk and transfer to warmed plates. Melt the butter in a small frying pan until foaming, add the parsley and capers and spoon over the egg and escalopes.
Clinton backers may find an alternative named McCain
Despite the hard contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, party leaders keep telling Democratic-leaning voters that they have two good candidates. They are right, but one of them may well be a Republican. Far from the pumped-up Obama rallies, centrists who voted for John Kerry last time now say they are considering John McCain especially if the Democrat is the vaporous Obama. At least that's what many are telling me and I'm telling myself. One friend said he'd vote for the New York senator, and if she's not the candidate, then McCain. When I reminded him that he doesn't like Hillary, he shrugged. Another acquaintance e-mailed, "Hillary is to me extremely unlikable, but I do not regard likability as a qualification." The notion that many Clinton voters cannot be easily transferred to Obama contradicts much "expert" opinion.
Yahoo7 returns to roots
In something of a back-to-the-future about-face, Mr Lund yesterday told Media that rather than cutting staff they would be redeployed to work on email, the search function and a new aggregated news site. "The strategy is simple. We want to make Yahoo7 the first stop for Australians going online," he said. "We can never be everything for everyone but we can certainly be the place where they start. If we're serious about winning then we've got to win in front page, mail, news and search." Yahoo7 is beefing up its search team and is eyeing a January relaunch of the service in an effort to regain ground from Google, which now has more than 85per cent of the Australian market. "Google has a bigger market share in Australia than anywhere else in the world," Mr Lund said. "I'll be throwing the kitchen sink at fixing search.
Network Rail bosses face House grilling
Network Rail's directors are to be hauled before the Transport Select Committee to explain the fiasco on the West Coast Main Line that disrupted the travel of 60,000 passengers a day last week. The Good Life: McAlly Baba and the railway thieves Newly knighted chairman Sir Ian McAllister and chief executive Iain Coucher can expect a grilling over the company's planning for the Rugby upgrade, where delays to engineering works paralysed the network. .
Cuisine Scene: Adventurous dining and pickles, too
The Cottage Eatery at 114 Main St. in Tiburon debuted Friday night with a standing-room-only party. Husband and wife team Edward Carew and Jennifer Rebman created a wonderfully pleasant space, entirely different than the cool, austere decor that had characterized Virapan's Tiburon Thai, the space's previous incarnation. Now, it has deep herb-green wainscoting and pillars, cream walls and an almost springy floor dappled in a stone-like pattern of gray/green and umber. I was intrigued with a wall of gleaming jars filled with assorted pickles that the couple create in house. "We love pickles," Rebman said. "We're going to make all kinds of pickled vegetables and candied fruits, and serve them seasonally." Carew and Rebman are trained chefs and met in New York while cooking at the Gramercy Tavern.
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