Get Healthy Tri-State: Added veggies make pasta more healthy (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch) HUNTINGTON -- This "healthy carb" recipe for pasta with marinara sauce and grilled vegetables serves four, with 270 calories per serving.

Pop up, novelty (The Columbus Dispatch) POP-UP, NOVELTY • Brava Strega Nona! A Heartwarming Pop-up Book by Tomie dePaola, illustrated by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart (Putnam, $29.99, ages 2 to 5) -- Strega Nona, Big Anthony and more of dePaola's comic Tuscan characters are brought to 3-D life. One of the best of the pop-up spreads: Big Anthony slides into the village square on a load of pasta.

Try pasta from the sea (Erie Times-News) "Spaghetti and clam sauce is easy to make, flavorful and gutsy," "Silver Palate" cookbook author Sheila Lukins recently told me. She adds raw tomatoes, scallions, basil and dried tarragon for unexpected fresh flavor in this Italian favorite.

New Survey Highlights People with Parkinson's and Caregivers' Needs (Carteret County News-Times) (ARA) - In the United States, nearly one million people are affected by Parkinson's disease, with one person diagnosed every nine minutes. That means that in the time it takes you to boil pasta, make a pot of coffee, or write a quick e-mail, one more person has been diagnosed.

Man caught with penis in pasta jar (Stuff) A man caught near New South Wales's Nobbys Beach with his penis in a pasta sauce jar led police on a 20kmh car chase, has had his day in court.

'Ono 101: Pasta Rags in Sage Brown Butter Sauce (The Kaleo Voice) Pasta is the fragile porcelain doll of the pantry; snapping spaghetti in half just before it hits the water is the most violence you should ever inflict upon it. On most other occasions, a cracked piece of pasta, especially one that is known for its specific shape, is the unwelcome, uncool wallflower at the pasta prom.

CLIPBOARD (The Scranton Times-Tribune) Daleville Benefit dinner: A pasta dinner to benefit Joey “Pappy” Kuniegel and family is scheduled Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. at the Daleville VFW. Cost is $7, adults; $4, children under 12. Takeouts will be available. For details, call Wendy Rhodes at 842-6600.

Pasta 'N More: Will it Work? (WCTV Tallahassee) WCTV tested a product that can make cooking pasta a little easier. Let's see if it works.

Gaines releases his number ones to the fans (Penn State Collegian) Favorite Food? - Any type of pasta, any type of Italian food. What's on your iPod? - Any lil' Wayne Best friend on the team? - I got so many, I'll be singling people out if I just name one person.

'Dukes' is a doo-wop disaster (Philly.com) The Dukes wants to be the Big Deal on Madonna Street of doo-wop nostalgia, Italian American division. As this shambling, cornball heist comedy - in which the members of a one-hit-wonder vocal group from the early '60s conspire in 2007 to steal the gold from the safe in a dental laboratory - plods along in its sloppy, joshing way, it tastes like pasta sauce that has sat on the shelf long after ...