Cover Girl looked like a walking bag of bones when she was rescued from a shelter-turned-death-camp in Pahrump last year. Now the cat is fat and happy and living in Texas.

After six months and more than $600,000 spent, Utah-based Best Friends Animal Society is wrapping up its operation in Pahrump this week. The last of more than 800 cats are expected to be transported out of Nevada on Friday.

No charges yet for shooter in Terrace Heights killing

A Kennewick man is wondering why the person who shot his son's friend dead is not in jail, after a drug deal gone bad Thursday in Terrace Heights.

Adams, who was in Yakima on Friday to attend his son's preliminary court hearing, said he was the one who ended up telling Bradford's mother Thursday evening that her son had been killed.

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Maybe CCA should have asked the three rising stars how they would feel about serving as photo advertisements for the school.

James Syhabout, who heads PlumpJack Café's kitchen, is the most measured in his evaluation of CCA — but he graduated in 1999, before the school was purchased by a large for-profit education company. "I know the school has definitely changed since I've been there," he said.

Tim Luym, who cooks at the Poleng Lounge in Nopa, said he found the school "a little deceptive." He says no one explained that many graduates of the expensive school go on to kitchen jobs that pay $10 per hour. "They don't really give you the reality of how much you'll be making," he says. "They never give you financials."

The third chef, Chris Kronner of the Slow Club in Potrero Hill, says the school does not have the best interest of the students at heart.

Beef 'cordon bleu' is easy, fast, tasty

That was the philosophy behind this attempt to create a beef version of chicken cordon bleu. It turned out to be easier, faster and far tastier than expected.

The result was a thin-cut London broil wrapped around blue cheese, pine nuts, roasted garlic and spinach. Seared quickly on the stove and finished in the oven, these steaks can be on your table in about 35 minutes.

When selecting your steaks, aim for nothing thicker than a third of an inch. Sirloin bottom was nice, but you may need to have the butcher cut them. Thin-cut London broil steaks are widely available at most grocer's meat counter.

While other greens and nuts can be substituted for the spinach and pine nuts in the filling, it's best to stick with blue cheese. You want a cheese that won't ooze much as it heats.

Fix the Flu Shot

The flu shot protects against only 40 percent of this year's viruses, the Centers for Disease Control said last week. On Thursday, the FDA decided to replace all three of the vaccine's influenza strains for next winter. Wait, why can't the scientists put every strain there is into the vaccine?

It wouldn't be worth the effort, even if it were feasible. There are thousands of influenza subtypes infecting people around the world, but very few are likely to make someone in the United States sick. Vaccinating people against a disease they're never going to get is a risky proposition: We don't know how the body would respond to a barrage of flu vaccinations. The patient might also develop a strong immune response to an insignificant strain, while skimping on antibodies for a nastier virus.