DETROIT — Twinkie lovers, relax.

The Twinkies shelves are quickly emptying across Arizona after Hostess announced it was going out of business.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said Thursday allegations by a Lake Tahoe casino hostess that he raped her a year ago are "reckless and false."

A bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of Twinkies to a pair of investment firms.

At the risk of raising ire from fans and lovers of Hostess snacks, I have to confess: I have never been a fan of Twinkies, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, Zingers or Suzie Q’s. And I would say, outside of eating a package of powdered-sugar doughnuts on rare occasion, I haven’t touched a Twinkie or Hostess cake in more than 30 years. They were just too sweet for me, and I never liked the taste of them.

To love "Sweet Charity" is to overlook its faults. The spirited, lighthearted 1966 Broadway musical comedy about a plucky dance-hall hostess who's unlucky in love yet eternally optimistic isn't one of Neil Simon's best efforts at book writing.

MILWAUKEE - Hostess Twinkies are becoming the latest product remade and repackaged into 100-calorie snack packs, a product some analysts say could do well given that more people are packing their own lunches in the slumping economy.

Let's not panic. We all know that Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder bread and the rest of Hostess Brands' oddly everlasting foods aren't going away any time soon, even if the food culture that created them is gasping its last.

 DECATUR, Ga. - Da Brat was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for hitting a hostess in the head with a rum bottle during an altercation at a suburban Atlanta nightclub last fall.

Colorful prints, designer denim (True Religion, Hudson) and velour track suits line the racks of Shop Sublime, a mobile fashion boutique parked outside an Ahwatukee Foothills home on an early Tuesday night.

LOS ANGELES — Men, do you have what it takes to be a model on "The Price is Right"?

LOS ANGELES - The jury in record producer Phil Spector's murder trial resumed deliberations Tuesday, a day after asking to see the snub-nose revolver that was used to shoot actress Lana Clarkson.

The season of holiday cheer is upon us, and with it come dinner parties and gift-giving galore. Nix the fruitcake or tin of cookies and look into a hostess gift with some thought behind it.