Why own a schnauzer or gerbil when you can ow pet cow instead? That's the question these days in Italy, where farmers have been told to slaughter about 400,000 cows because of an EEC quota on milk ...

Milk will cost another 33 cents a gallon in the metro area from next Friday, as prices head beyond stratospheric levels to Milky Way heights. The 9.3 percent price hike due June 1 will bring the price ...