The Kings Point estate said to have been the inspiration for the West Egg mansion in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” has sold, according to a press release by the real estate firm that listed the property.The price has not yet been made public. Neither has the name of the buyer.John Handler last owned the home, known as the Brickman estate. Handler was found dead there in 2008; he was 57. His wife, Jennifer Eley-Handler, who was principal pianist for the Long Island Philharmonic, died t

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― A San Francisco Chinese restaurant once known for having “the world’s rudest waiter’’ may not be closing for good after all.The owners of Sam Wo restaurant are scheduled to plead their case to the city’s Public Health Department at a hearing on Tuesday.Owner David Ho’s daughter, Julie, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the restaurant will be closed over the weekend, but nothing is definite beyond that.“This restaurant is my life,’’ she told the newspaper.Health officials

KRANJ, Slovenia (AP) ― It’s a diplomatic rift that has both countries hungry for a fight. The subject of the spat? A humble pork sausage.Slovenia calls the spicy delicacy “Kranjska klobasa’’ and Austria “Krainerwurst’’ ― variants of the same name that belongs to the border region the sausage comes from. Both countries have enjoyed the snack for centuries and consider it part of their cultural heritage.Now, Slovenia has applied to the European Union for exclusive use of the name, and the Austrian

In a large study involving almost 75,000 adults in Sweden ages 45-83, those who ate low-fat dairy products had less risk of stroke, researchers said. First author Susanna Larsson, an associate professor of epidemiology at the National Institute of Environmental Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, said at the beginning of the study participants were free of heart disease, str

A Texas teenager was arrested for allegedly conning folks in the El Paso area with a false story about battling cancer.Angie Gomez, 19, Horizon City, was indicted by an El Paso County grand jury on theft-by-deception for allegedly accepting about $17,000 in donations based on claims she had been stricken with leukemia.She was locked up Friday on $50,000 bond.Gomez had told her high school classmat

An Australian girl who suffered severe brain damage and was left paralysed by food poisoning won a court case against fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken, in a judgment published Saturday.Monika Samaan was seven years old when she suffered salmonella encephalopathy -- a brain injury linked to food poisoning that also left her with a blood infection and septic shock -- in October 2005.Several ot