Recall Issued For Chicken Fried Rice Products Recall Issued For Chicken Fried Rice Products
Recall Issued For Chicken Fried Rice Products The USDA is urging consumers to check their freezers after announcing a recall of more than 30,000 pounds of a chicken fried rice product. Choice Canning Company Inc., a Pennsylvania-based company, announced that it is recalling 35,459 pounds of chicken fried rice products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the  U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced this week. The products contain milk, a known allergen, which is not declared on the product label. The chicken fried rice products were produced on Feb. 13, and Feb. 19. The re…
Ocasio-Cortez Draws Bigger Crowd Than Any 2020 Dem Presidential Candidate At Texas Conference Ocasio-Cortez Draws Bigger Crowd Than Any 2020 Dem Presidential Candidate At Texas Conference
Ocasio-Cortez Draws Bigger Crowd Than Any 2020 Dem Presidential Candidate At Texas Conference It wasn’t any of the 2020 presidential hopefuls that took center stage at the South by Southwest conference in Texas, it was outspoken freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The 2007 Yorktown High School graduate drew a larger crowd than the presidential hopefuls, as she discussed her Green New Deal and other talking points to a capacity crowd of thousands. During her one-hour talk, she touched on topics that include social and economic policy, reform ideas and what her first few whirlwind months in Congress. She also took former president Ronald Reagan to task for his treatment o…
Energy Firm In Norwalk Cuts Jobs, Accepts $436M Buyout Energy Firm In Norwalk Cuts Jobs, Accepts $436M Buyout
Energy Firm In Norwalk Cuts Jobs, Accepts $436M Buyout A Texas-based energy company is poised to become the nation’s largest residential electricity provider after making a deal to purchase Norwalk’s Crius Energy, after the company cut jobs last year. Vistra Energy and Crius Energy Trust announced this week that they have reached an agreement to pay approximately $328 million for Crius, and will assume Crius’ debt of an estimated $108 for a total of $436,000,000. Following the closing of the transaction, Vistra will be the leading residential electricity provider in the nation with operations in 19 states and Washington, D.C. The sale come…
Did You Buy Them? 100,000 Pounds Of Chicken Products Recalled Did You Buy Them? 100,000 Pounds Of Chicken Products Recalled
Did You Buy Them? 100,000 Pounds Of Chicken Products Recalled The USDA has announced the latest recall of nearly 100,000 pounds of a popular chicken product due to misbranding and undeclared allergens. VICS Acquisition, based out of Texas, announced that it is recalling 99,975 pounds of products that may contain eggs, which was not declared on the product’s label. Items recalled include the Happi Foodi Bloody Mary Inspired Chicken, Southeast Grocers Brand Marsala Chicken and Southeast Grocers Brand Mediterranean Herb Chicken items were produced from Aug. 7 through Oct.15 last year. The issue was discovered when a company that VICS packs for found it …
Wells Fargo To Pay States $575M To Resolve Customer Ripoff Claims: NJ, NY, CT Get $34M Wells Fargo To Pay States $575M To Resolve Customer Ripoff Claims: NJ, NY, CT Get $34M
Wells Fargo To Pay States $575M To Resolve Customer Ripoff Claims: NJ, NY, CT Get $34M Wells Fargo Bank has agreed to pay $575 million – including more than $34 million combined to New Jersey, New York and Connecticut – to settle charges that it engaged in a variety of sales, lending, and other improper business practices for more than a decade. The bank also has agreed to pay more than $385 million to 850,000 auto finance customers who were wrongly charged premiums, interest, and fees for forced-place collateral protection insurance, even though they already had the coverage. That includes payments to more than 51,000 customers whose cars were repossessed, according to the m…
E. Coli Recall Now Includes Cauliflower, More Leafy Greens E. Coli Recall Now Includes Cauliflower, More Leafy Greens
E. Coli Recall Now Includes Cauliflower, More Leafy Greens A farm cited as the source of the E.coli outbreak in romaine lettuce is now recalling cauliflower, red leaf lettuce and green leaf lettuce. The products were grown and harvested between Nov. 27 and 30, Adams Brothers Farming Inc. in Santa Maria, California said. Cauliflower was sold to distributors in New York, New Jersey, Arizona, California, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tijuana, Mexico, and Canada, according to Adam Bros. Farming. Red and green leaf lettuce was sold to wholesalers in California, Colorado, Oregon, Texas, Pennsylvania, Washin…
Bill, Hillary Clinton International Speaking Tour Will Come To Connecticut Bill, Hillary Clinton International Speaking Tour Will Come To Connecticut
Bill, Hillary Clinton International Speaking Tour Will Come To Connecticut Bill and Hillary Clinton of Chappaqua are going on tour, including April stops in Connecticut and New York. The political couple's speaking tour will span two countries and 13 cities — including Wallingford, CT where they'll speak at the Toyota Oakdale Theatre. The tour, billed as "An Evening with the Clintons," kicks off on Nov. 18 in Las Vegas.  Bill Clinton served as the nation's 42nd president from January 1993 through January 2001. His wife, Hillary, is a former First Lady, Secretary of State and U.S. senator from New York who lost the 2016 election to President Donald Trump…
CT College Student Sentenced For Enticing Young Boys To Engage In Sex Over Internet CT College Student Sentenced For Enticing Young Boys To Engage In Sex Over Internet
CT College Student Sentenced For Enticing Young Boys To Engage In Sex Over Internet A 24-year-old man attending college in Connecticut has been sentenced for enticing four boys to engage in sexual activities over the Internet. Travis McCoy has been sentenced to 156 months in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, after pleading guilty in Hartford District Court over the summer to one count of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. From August 2015 through March last year, while attending college and living in New London, McCoy admitted to using Internet-based video chatting services such as Kik and Google Hangouts, as well as Internet-based gami…
Suspects In Theft At Auto Dealer Caught After Police Call Off Post Road Chase Suspects In Theft At Auto Dealer Caught After Police Call Off Post Road Chase
Suspects In Theft At Auto Dealer Caught After Police Call Off Post Road Chase A pair of suspects who allegedly stole a set of tires and rims from a Westport auto dealership took police on a brief high-speed chase before ultimately being apprehended attempting to flee the area on foot. A Westport police officer on patrol at approximately 1:45 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13 spotted a vehicle slowly leaving the area of a local car dealership without any headlights on. When the officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop on Post Road, the car took off, taking him on a brief pursuit that was terminated due to the excessive rate of speed. Police said that shortly thereafter, a…
Crazed, Violent Wrong-Way Driver Crashes Into Six Vehicles On I-91, Police Say Crazed, Violent Wrong-Way Driver Crashes Into Six Vehicles On I-91, Police Say
Crazed, Violent Wrong-Way Driver Crashes Into Six Vehicles On I-91, Police Say An unidentified, violent, out-of-control man was apprehended by police after a lengthy police chase which included the man hitting six vehicles, including three state police cars on I-91 in the New Haven area, police said. The incident unfolded early Monday when the man's sister phone New Haven police to report he was "out of control," and "needed hospitalization," said New Haven Police Officer David Hartman. Officers Thomas Blaisdell and Caitlin Zarella spoke with the man’s roommates at their University Place apartment. They said they last saw him a day ago, adding he a…
Former Fairfield County Resident Admits To Illegally Reentering US Former Fairfield County Resident Admits To Illegally Reentering US
Former Fairfield County Resident Admits To Illegally Reentering US An illegal immigrant who once called Fairfield County home has admitted to illegally reentering the country after being deported. Former Norwalk resident Miguel Angel Arcos-Vasquez - also known as Dimas Fernando Herrarte - pleaded guilty in New Haven District Court to illegally reentering the country following several failed attempts. He is a legalized citizen of either Mexico or Guatemala, John Durham, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced. According to Durham. Arcos-Vasquez, 26, illegally entered the country in or before 2014. In March of that year, he was a…
CNBC Study Reveals Where CT Ranks Among Best States For Business CNBC Study Reveals Where CT Ranks Among Best States For Business
CNBC Study Reveals Where CT Ranks Among Best States For Business Texas finished first. Alaska finished last. How does Connecticut fare compared to other states for business? In this study, CNBC scored all 50 states on more than 60 measures of competitiveness, developed with input from a broad and diverse array of business and policy experts, official government sources, the CNBC Global CFO Council, CEOs on the frontline of the economy known as the Young Presidents Organization -- and the states themselves. Connecticut placed 37th overall of the 50 states. (See a breakdown of scores below or by clicking here.)  States received points based on their ran…