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Carl's Jr. says it will make its New York City debut at the end of the month. The franchise said Tuesday that it will open a restaurant across the street from Penn Station. WNBC-TV reports the chain also opened a Coney Island location Tuesday. The chain currently has over 1,300 restaurants, but fewer than 10 of them are located east of Oklahoma. A rendering of the new restaurant shows a sign that is more than twice the size of a McDonald's restaurant that is next door.

and the day he left for college...

A woman who drove head-on into other cars on a California freeway in an apparent suicide attempt has been charged with second-degree murder for killing the driver she struck, according to authorities. Grace Elizabeth Ward, 28, of Red Bluff, suffered a broken leg in the Jan. 7 accident that killed 29-year-old medical student Ryan Folsom. She was arrested Tuesday after her release from the hospital and remained jailed on $1.5 million bail, prosecutors said. She was expected to be appointed a public defender at her arraignment, scheduled for Friday, according to Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett. Ward was heading north on the freeway in Redding when she crossed into oncoming traffic and allegedly attempted to kill herself by running into other cars. “She intentionally was driving and swerving towards them,” Bridgett said. While three cars were able to get out of the way, Folsom’s car was struck. Bridgett called Ward’s actions a “selfish” decision. “She made a choice, a purposeful choice to use her vehicle and driving in a fashion that was reckless and dangerous with a complete disregard” for other lives, Bridgett said. Bridgett declined to say what Ward told investigators during an interview, or discuss details of her background. Ward was also charged with three counts of attempted murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon for her alleged attempt to strike the other three cars, according to Bridgett. She also faces a felony vandalism charge for damaging a median strip as she crossed into oncoming traffic, the district attorney said. If convicted, she could face life in prison. Folsom attended the University of Texas medical school in San Antonio and played football at Brigham Young University in Utah, where he studied neuroscience. A GoFundMe page has raised more than $300,000 to support Folsom’s family — including his widow, who is pregnant with their third child.

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A young man was caught sexually molesting a horse in Alabama last week — and the owner of the animal has reason to believe this wasn’t their first rendezvous. “I would say seven, maybe 10 times,” owner Francince Janes told NBC 15, in reference to the number of times she found evidence that her barn had been tampered with last month. “Toilet paper had been left. The hay stacks had been removed. Items had been turned over. And that’s as far as I want to go.” Daniel Bennett, 18, of Irvington, is currently awaiting trial after being arrested last Thursday night by officers from the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office. He reportedly confessed to attempting to molest the horse — a 20-year-old steed named Polly — inside Janes’ barn and was charged with possession of burglar’s tools, criminal trespassing and bestiality, which is a misdemeanor. According to AL.com, the official warrant for Bennett’s arrest says he “engaged in or submitted to any sexual contact with an animal, to-wit: a horse.” Janes told NBC 15 that her husband was the one who caught the young man after their dogs woke them up barking. He reportedly held Bennett at gunpoint and spoke with him briefly before police arrived. Describing what Bennett told her husband, Janes said: “He likes horses. He wanted to pet the horse.” Asked what the young man told investigators, she replied: “That he molested the horse.” Whether it was a spur of the moment decision or not, Polly’s owner hopes Bennett will eventually seek treatment for bestiality. “I sincerely hope the judge mandates that he goes for psychiatric help,” Janes said. “But just not a slap on the wrist.”

Well, Dr. WTF is no longer my doctor. The insurance company I had last year went out of business after December. I spent hours researching & calling the NY State exchange and found out that only Emblem Health would be accepted by my 3 main doctors. Then I spent more time on the phone with Emblem Health confirming that all would. Then I called at least the other 2 (don't remember if I called WTF's office) and was told that they would accept it. So yesterday I called Dr. WTF's office to get referrals to all the doctors he wanted me to see (plus a colonoscopy I have scheduled). Today at 5:05 PM their referral person called me to tell me that Dr. WTF isn't accepting ANY plan from the exchange, and none of my other doctors (who are all part of the same large medical group) will be accepting any either. And of course, since it was after 5, I couldn't call any other doctors to confirm. Now I have to find a whole new set of doctors. But at least my insurance premiums are still fairly reasonable! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I visited a concentration camp during a 3 week, many country trip through Europe in 1991. I still remember the AAA travel guide book: Dachau is a pleasant little town... (that has the remains of a concentration camp). I also went to the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam on that trip. Very sobering.

James Bond is Brooklyn bound. Sources in the borough are buzzing that Bond starDaniel Craig is the mystery buyer of a Brooklyn brownstone sold by author Martin Amis and his wife, Isabel Fonseca, for $6.75 million. The home burned in a fire on New Year’s Eve a year ago, and Amis and his family have reportedly decamped to a Downtown Brooklyn high-rise. The 1901 Cobble Hill home was bought through an LLC called On the Rows last year, according to property records. Reps for Craig and his wife, Rachel Weisz, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. A broker for the property declined to comment on Friday. Craig and Weisz reportedly lived previously in an $11.5 million Soho penthouse purchased in 2012 after Craig sold a Tribeca pad. They’d be just the latest celebs to call booming Brooklyn home, following stars such as Michelle Williams, Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, and John Krasinksi and Emily Blunt (who are reportedly selling their $8 million Park Slope home). Amis and Fonseca bought the home for $2.5 million, in 2010. But last year, a faulty chimney led to an accidental blaze that ignited the roof. A Corcoran listing for the 6,600-square-foot property explained it was being “offered as a clean, blank slate and ready for a purchaser to finish to their specifications. This home has just received a brand new roof and extensive repair after damage from a fire that was contained to the top floor and is ready for a contractor to begin the finishing work . . . Wall studs are intact, and most mechanical systems are in good working order (including radiant heat in two of the bathrooms and the garden level).” Amis reportedly said the fire was like “the last kick in the arse of 2016.” Amis’ famous father, Kingsley Amis, published a 1968 Bond novel, “Colonel Sun” — under the pseudonym Robert Markham — after the death of Ian Fleming. He also wrote a book called “The James Bond Dossier,” analyzing Fleming’s novels.

Private Emmanuel Mensah, who died in a tragic Bronx fire after rescuing four people, will receive a Medal of Valor and a Soldier’s Award from the Army, the Daily News has learned. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who pushed the Army to pay posthumous tribute to Mensah, said the young soldier deserved the recognition for his “courage, sacrifice and utter selflessness.” The Soldier’s Award is the Army’s highest peacetime honor for bravery. It’s given for acts of personal danger and voluntary risk of life under conditions not involving conflict with an armed enemy. The Medal of Valor is awarded to those who display similar acts of heroism, the Army said. Mensah died Dec. 28 in a horrific blaze that killed 12 others. The Army private had rushed in and out of the burning Bronx building at least three times to guide four people to safety, Army officials said. Officials believe Mensah, 26, was trying to rescue others when the smoke and flames overtook him. Schumer hailed the soldier as a “hero” in his letter to Army officials last week. On Monday, he applauded the Army for its swift and fitting response. “On behalf of all New Yorkers, and all Americans, I want to express my sincerest gratitude to Pfc. Mensah, and his family, for the heroic actions he displayed on that fateful day; it will never be forgotten,” said Schumer. Mensah, a permanent legal resident, had emigrated to the U.S. from Ghana with his family. He enlisted in the New York Army National Guard in 2016. Mensah had lived in the Bronx building where the fire broke out before he left for training in Virginia. He was home for the holidays when the tragedy occurred, Army officials said. Mensah was to begin training with the 107th Military Police Company this month. http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3745266.1515451644!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/180102-z-a3538-1001.jpg http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3745264.1515451641!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/fire.jpg

Now that Hallmark Channel's inane, annoying, endless, horrible, suicide-inspiring, (seemingly) year-round Xmas extravaganza has ended, the girls are back. Yay! One of my favorite Dorothy being sarcastic scenes:

Hallmark cuts out that entire intrauterine scene. They tend to cut whole scenes to get the episode down to 20 minutes, whereas Lifetime used to cut a line here, a line there.

Prepare to be impressed:

Even in his Emmy-award winning appearance on GOLDEN GIRLS?

I've always wondered... Do you think Will is a top, bottom, or versatile? I thought of this again this week when he & Grace were boffing Megan Mullally's hubby.

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! You gave away a little secret. :rolleyes:

Somebody to clean, paint, and redecorate my apartment.

I watched the first episode. It has potential. Interesting actors and characters.

To caress and serve. A New Jersey police department has offered “cuddles” to local residents who might need some heat during the winter storm. The Matawan Police Department posted an image of its officers on Facebook Thursday along with a caption that offered some special protection. “Our men and woman keeping our town safe during what we hope to be the first and only blizzard of 2018,” the post read. “Some of our officer are specially trained “cuddlers”, who can stop by if your heat happens to go out.” The department did not respond to a request for comment by The Post. They eventually took the image down, followed up by an explanation and apology. “We tried to have some fun. Some folks don’t like that. Sorry to all the rest,” the department posted at 5:30 p.m. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Gale-force winds toppled the roof of a New Jersey gas station on Thursday, a video shows. The canopy of the Delta gas station on River Drive in Garfield, New Jersey, came loose at around 2 p.m. Local firefighters were on scene and had cut the power and cleared all people out of the station when the top blew off a few minutes later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZz3ujyFhdI

Mike Trout might not belong in Los Angeles for a reason that has nothing to do with baseball. The Angels superstar has made his affinity for the weather known in recent years, striking up a relationship with meteorologist Jim Cantore and posting videos and messages about a variety of storms on his Twitter account. The snowstorm that hit the Northeast on Thursday, deemed the “bomb cyclone,” caught Trout’s interest a day earlier and led to an onslaught of weather-related messages to his wife. It didn’t take long for Jessica Cox, who wed Trout in December fittingly in a snow-covered setting, to grow tired of her husband’s hobby. “He’s about one weather map photo short of me muting his text message alerts… #theobsessionsisreal,” she wrote on Twitter, in response to Cantore’s high praise for Trout’s knowledge of meteorology. Cantore, who has had Trout call into his show on The Weather Channel and sent him a weather balloon in 2016 to track trends, said the two have been actively discussing the blizzard as details kept surfacing this week. “I’ve been talking to Mike Trout all week. He’s so excited about this storm right now. He’s been blowing up my phone,” Cantore said on SiriusXM’s MLB Network Radio. “There’s no question that he would have been a meteorologist if he wasn’t a phenomenal baseball player. He really loves weather. He’s a total geek about it, and it’s great talking to him.” http://larrybrownsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Mike-Trout-Angels.jpg http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0917/mag_troutcoverbts_12.jpg http://www.homorazzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/mike-trout-shirtless.jpg

Mike Trout might not belong in Los Angeles for a reason that has nothing to do with baseball. The Angels superstar has made his affinity for the weather known in recent years, striking up a relationship with meteorologist Jim Cantore and posting videos and messages about a variety of storms on his Twitter account. The snowstorm that hit the Northeast on Thursday, deemed the “bomb cyclone,” caught Trout’s interest a day earlier and led to an onslaught of weather-related messages to his wife. It didn’t take long for Jessica Cox, who wed Trout in December fittingly in a snow-covered setting, to grow tired of her husband’s hobby. “He’s about one weather map photo short of me muting his text message alerts… #theobsessionsisreal,” she wrote on Twitter, in response to Cantore’s high praise for Trout’s knowledge of meteorology. Cantore, who has had Trout call into his show on The Weather Channel and sent him a weather balloon in 2016 to track trends, said the two have been actively discussing the blizzard as details kept surfacing this week. “I’ve been talking to Mike Trout all week. He’s so excited about this storm right now. He’s been blowing up my phone,” Cantore said on SiriusXM’s MLB Network Radio. “There’s no question that he would have been a meteorologist if he wasn’t a phenomenal baseball player. He really loves weather. He’s a total geek about it, and it’s great talking to him.” http://larrybrownsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Mike-Trout-Angels.jpg http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0917/mag_troutcoverbts_12.jpg http://www.homorazzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/mike-trout-shirtless.jpg

I just read a review that highly praised this miniseries that I couldn't possibly care less about. I was just curious about whether there'd be a review of Ricky Martin's performance (there wasn't), or I wouldn't have wasted those precious few moments of my life reading the review.