(AP) – Hostess is betting on a sweet comeback for Twinkies when they return to
shelves starting on July 15.

The company that went bankrupt in early 2012 after an acrimonious fight with its 
unionized workers is back up and running under new owners, Metropoulos & Co.
and Apollo Global Management. The team bought Twinkies and other Hostess
cakes products for $410 million.

The company says the cakes will taste the same but that the boxes will now bear
the tag line "The Sweetest Comeback In The History Of Ever."

Twinkies were invented in the town of River Forest, Illinois on April 6, 1930 by
James Alexander Dewar, a baker for the Continental Baking Company.

James A. Dewar

January 6, 1859

The Oregonian is a daily newspaper originating in Portland, Oregon, owned by 
Advance Publications. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the  
U.S. west coast and was founded as a weekly by Thomas J. Dryer on December 
4, 1850. The newspaper is the largest in the state of Oregon and the Pacific
Northwest by circulation and the 19th largest daily newspaper in the country.  

The Oregonian announced Thursday that it will reduce home delivery to 4
days and make reductions in staff as part of a series of changes, effective
October 1.

Newspaper publisher Thomas J. Dryer

James Joseph Gandolfini, Jr. (September 18, 1961 – June 19, 2013)

Actor Gandolfini was best known for his role as Tony Soprano in The Sopranos
on HBO. He reportedly died in Italy of an apparent heart attack.

Slim Whitman (Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr.)

(January 20, 1923 – June 19, 2013)

Whitman, a country music singer/songwriter and instrumentalist,
known for his yodeling and smooth high octave falsetto, died of
heart failure at Orange Park Medical Center in Florida. He had
recorded more than 65 albums and sold in excess of 120 million
records.

 

David D. "Deacon" Jones (December 9, 1938 – June 3, 2013)

(AP) – David "Deacon" Jones, a Hall of Fame defensive end credited with
terming the word sack for how he knocked down quarterbacks, has died.

The Washington Redskins say that Jones died of natural causes at his
home in Southern California. He was a defensive end in the National
Football League for the Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers, and
the Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall
of Fame in 1980.