Quest Community Church assistant pastor Justin McCarty was on stage at the second edition of the Questapalooza music festival.

No need for Paula Deen to melt a stick of butter.

WASHINGTON — Children could be prevented from realizing their potential in school and eventually in the labor force as consequences from home foreclosures endure for years, a Federal Reserve official said Thursday.

Private employers hired more workers over the past three months than first thought, a glimmer of hope for the weak economy ahead of the Labor Day weekend. But the unemployment rate rose because not enough jobs were created to absorb the growing number of people looking for work.

An internal audit found nothing untoward in the Kentucky Retirement Systems' interaction with the placement agents who bring investment deals to the pension program — unless you consider it untoward for the agents to collect nearly $15 million in fees since 2004.

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, fires away in a new book he hopes will spread his ideas far and wide. Environmental lobbyists are "followers of neo-Marxist, socialist, Maoist or Communist ideals."Global warming claims are "hysteria" spread by a "Doomsday cult." The phrases "radical left" and "radical environmentalist" recur often.