Imagine you could change any aspect of a McDonald's milkshake. Would you thicken the slurry? Fatten the cream? Lower the freezing point? When McDonald's milkshake analysts noticed a spike in early morning sales, they learnt that many consumers would prefer their milkshake to more closely resemble breakfast.

A burglar took more than $3,000 in cash during a July 20 theft from La Cabana in Hillsboro, Police Chief Dan Kinning said Tuesday.

Paul Ilegems, a retired professor of art history, has a vision of heaven. It involves a simple Belgian pommes frites stand where "human souls ascended eat their fries undisturbed". It may be odd for a man accustomed to appreciating the beauty of art to wax poetic about something as mundane as frites, but to Ilegems, who has written four books about ...