GARY, Ind. (AP) — Ben Watkins loves few things more than cooking but now struggles to stir. The precocious 13-year-old from the Region, who used to cook at the Ben`s Bodacious BBQ restaurant in Miller and appeared on the “MasterChef Junior” television show, has been in too much physical pain lately to cook, ride his bike, or do almost anything he normally enjoys. Ben, who lost his parents, Leila Edwards and Mike Watkins, in a murder-suicide three years ago, faces another personal struggle. The teen chef, who appeared on Season 6 of the culinary contest on Fox that`s hosted by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey, has been afflicted by aggressive tumors on his spine, shoulder and lung, his uncle and...
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