As he starts fifth grade, Nick Hornbostel has quite a “what I did on my summer vacation”” story: the 10-year-old from Edwards spent his vacation starring in the Food Network show “Rachael Ray’s Kids Cook-Off.”
The contestants face a series of cooking challenges in the six-episode series as they compete to win a $20,000 culinary scholarship and their own web series on FoodNetwork.com.
Though Hornbostel enjoyed the combination of cooking and being on camera, TV wasn’t everything he thought it would be.
“I thought I was going to be picked up from the hotel by a limousine but that didn’t happen,” Hornbostel said. “But I really, really, really love the show and it was so much fun.”
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The Colorado State Patrol is reporting lengthy delays on Interstate 25 south of Castle Rock after a tanker truck hauling jet fuel caught fire and ignited a now-growing grass blaze.
Officials say the blaze, burning in Greenland, .
Lanes of the interstate were intermittently being closed as crews battle the fire. A photo from the scene, taken by the State Patrol, showed the grass fire creeping up to the roadway’s edge.
A response crew is in the process of transferring fuel from the damaged tanked to a replacement tanker.
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The Dow Jones industrial average rocketed , snapping a six-day losing streak that had Americans nervously checking their investment balances.
While the surge came as a relief to many, Wall Street professionals warned that more rough days lie ahead, in part because of unsettled conditions in China, where signs of an economic slowdown triggered the sell-off that has shaken global markets over the past week.
Heading into Wednesday, the three major U.S. stock ind” exes had dropped six days in a row, the longest slide in more than three years. The Dow had fallen about 1,900 points over that period, while the slump wiped out more than $2 trillion in corporate value.
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