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Gretchen McKay | (TNS) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Beans are kind of like the your best friend from high school — nearly forgotten but always ready to step back into the limelight and help out an old pal when needed. As gorgeously (and tantalizingly) demonstrated in Rancho Gordo’s new cookbook, “The Bean Book: 100 Recipes for Cooking with All Kinds of Beans” (Ten Speed, $35), beans are indeed a magical fruit, though not in the way you heard as a kid. Classified as both a vegetable and a plant-based protein in the USDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans, beans and other legumes can be the ingredient you build an entire vegetarian or veggie-forward meal around.

A 7-year-old boy who was reportedly abducted by a 26-year-old woman was last seen in a white Ford Focus near La Junta, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said in an Amber  Alert on Monday. Uriah Saye Jr. was last seen at around 12:50 p.m. in the 2012 Focus near Cheraw, 10 miles north of La Junta in Otero County, agency officials said in the alert.

By Eric Kim, The New York Times The stately, russet Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving turkey has one major flaw: It’s too big to taste any good. There’s just no easy way to cook the dark meat of a bird that gargantuan without drying out the white meat. (That’s why many professional chefs spatchcock, deep-fry or, for more control, roast the bird in pieces.) Maybe it’s time to stop striving for that decades-old ideal.

I was just 8 years old the first time my family came under attack. Even at that young age, I could sense the tension in my parents as they tried to shield me from the vitriol. But secrets were never their strong suit. It was 2015 and my dad had decided to leave his corporate job to run for the state legislature.

LAS VEGAS — Here’s a look at whose stock improved or declined after the Broncos’ 29-19 win over the Raiders on Sunday. Stock Up WR Devaughn Vele: The 26-year-old rookie had his best performance of the season. Vele had six catches for 80 yards while averaging 13.3 yards per catch. The seventh-round pick has played solid football over the last three weeks.

A 63-year-old Park County woman died Friday night in a head-on collision on U. S. 285 near Conifer, according to Colorado State Patrol officials. Around 6 p.m. Friday, a woman driving a Dodge pickup truck southbound on U. S. 285 suddenly crossed into the northbound lanes and crashed into an Xcel service truck, state patrol officials said in a news release. The woman driver was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, state patrol officials said.