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Sara Lee, a former WWE "Tough Enough" winner who performed on the company’s NXT brand for nearly a year, has died, her mother announced on social media. Lee was 30. Lee’s mother, Terri, made the shocking revelation on her Facebook account. Lee participated in the sixth season of WWE "Tough Enough" in 2015, which is a reality series run by the pro wrestling company to determine who would get a WWE contract. She won the event with Josh Bredl, who wrestled as Bronson Matthews. She was assigned to NXT and trained at the WWE Performance Center before moving onto NXT....

CHICAGO (AP) — The nation's two largest hot dog makers took their legal beefs on Monday to federal court, where a judge will determine whether Oscar Mayer or Ball Park franks broke false-advertising laws in their efforts to become top dog. As the bench trial got under way, U.S. Magistrate Judge Morton Denlow cast his eyes across the Chicago courtroom, where half a dozen attorneys were at opposing tables, and said, "Let the wiener wars begin." The battle pits Chicago-area companies Sara Lee Corp., which makes Ball Park franks, against Kraft Foods Inc., which makes Oscar Mayer, in a case...

I’m at that awkward age where I’m able to remember what a great country America has been and how the freedom we have here enables anyone to rise from abject poverty to a millionaire if he/she has the right work ethic and the right values. Maybe that’s why it bothers me so to see what political correctness and the attempts by the Obama administration to “fundamentally change America as we know it” have done to us as a culture as well as a country. And nothing better illustrates those simple, old-fashioned values than the life of a gentleman who passed...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (AP) — Sara Lee Corp. is recalling 27 brands of whole wheat bread products because they could contain small metal pieces, the company said Friday. ... The products were sold in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. ... The recall involves EarthGrains, Publix, Sara Lee Delightful, Sara Lee Hearty & Delicious and several other brands that were stamped "best if purchased by" July 25, 2007, to Aug. 7, 2007, and included the code "222."

Christopher "C.J." Fraleigh, general manager of the Buick and Pontiac-GMC division of General Motors Corp., is leaving the automaker at the end of the year, GM said. Fraleigh will join Sara Lee, a GM spokesman said, as a senior vice president for sales and marketing. His departure was announced Tuesday internally. He joined GM in January 2001 at the age of 37 as executive director of corporate advertising and marketing from Pepsi-Cola Co., where he had been a vice president of marketing of colas. Fraleigh, 41, gave no public indication of his decision two weeks ago at a GM press...

Sara Lee drops famous singer Jimmy Dean as spokesman RICHMOND, Va. -- Country singer Jimmy Dean said Sara Lee has dropped him as spokesman for the sausage company he founded. The 75-year-old native of Plainview, Texas, said the maker of food, apparel and household products told him he no longer meets the company's marketing needs. A spokeswoman for Sara Lee said the company chose not to renew Dean's contract in May because the "brand was going in a new direction'' that demanded a shift in marketing. Dean, who lives just outside of Richmond, Virginia, said he had a verbal...