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Police said the woman was an employee of the Arby's restaurant, which is located in New IberiaAuthorities in Louisiana are investigating a "suspicious death" after a body was found in a walk-in freezer at an Arby's restaurant in New Iberia, police said. The New Iberia Police Department said the female victim was an employee at the restaurant on E. Admiral Doyle Drive, according to KADN. Her cause of death has not yet been determined. "So it was an employee that discovered the female deceased inside the cooler, (and) the deceased is an employee of the restaurant," New Iberia Police Capt....

A Scotts Valley man was reunited with his guitar after it was stolen from a storage unit. According to the Scotts Valley Police Department, an investigation led detectives to a guitar shop in Santa Clara County. The recovered guitar was a 1964 Gibson L7C. Similar guitars have an online asking price of more than $7,000. The police department says the investigation into the storage unit thefts is ongoing. No suspects or arrests have been announced.

A body found in a walk-in freezer at an Arby's in New Iberia was that of a woman who managed the fast food restaurant and her death appears to be an accident, the lead homicide investigator told News 15. The gruesome discovery happened Thursday evening during regular business hours at the Arby's located at 1120 E. Admiral Doyle Drive in New Iberia's Lagniappe Village shopping center. “So it was an employee that discovered the female deceased inside the cooler, (and) the deceased is an employee of the restaurant,” New Iberia Police Capt. Leland Laseter told News 15 in an exclusive...

President Donald Trump admirably stood his ground onstage Wednesday night at a CNN town hall event, battling the moderator and host, Kaitlan Collins, who focused on attacking him on Democrat talking points for the duration of the evening.Collins, who tried to hammer Trump on tired issues like Jan. 6, E. Jean Carroll, and the FBI’s confiscation of documents that were at Mar-a-Lago, made several colorful claims in her debate with the president.Notably, in a discussion regarding immigration and border security, Collins argued that Trump had only built “52 miles” of wall at the southern border. Trump rebutted that he had...

"He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep." "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. "Wherefore God also hath...

Police Blotter: Drunk Husband Hides From Police In Tiny Closet; Man Thinks He’s Surrounded By Hidden Cameras Friday, May 12, 2023 An anonymous caller told police they received concerning text messages of a man and woman on Clear Brook Court. Police arrived and spoke with the wife. She said nothing was going on, however her husband was very intoxicated. Police spoke with the husband, who was hiding in a tiny closet in the bathroom. The man was clearly very intoxicated and speaking nonsense. The man didn’t live there and police asked if his wife if he needed to be removed....

How complicated can cold fusion be, really?Fusion upstart Helion Energy has named Microsoft as its first customer, and claims the software giant should be able to use electricity made by mashing together helium atoms from 2028. Which may come as a surprise to many, given that nuclear fusion – outside of stars and incredibly destructive bombs – remains largely theoretical. The few successes in the field have produced modest net energy gains. The most celebrated recent fusion experiment, revealed by Lawrence Livermore Laboratory's National Ignition Facility in late 2022, produced 3.15 megajoules (MJ) of fusion energy output using 2.05 MJ...

Pop & Politics respond to actress and singer Patti LuPone and Whoopi Goldberg on The View, saying that she does not know the difference between the “religious right” in the US and the Taliban. The ladies of Pop & Politics give a fiery response and history lesson The Best Takedown of Whoopi & The View (hooo-wheee! video)

Writer, a generative AI platform for enterprises, has released a report revealing that almost half (46%) of senior executives (directors and above) suspect their colleagues have unintentionally shared corporate data with ChatGPT. This troubling statistic highlights the necessity for generative AI tools to safeguard companies’ data, brand, and reputation. The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise report found that ChatGPT is the most popular chatbot in use amongst enterprises, with CopyAI (35%) and Anyword (26%) following closely behind as the second and third most commonly used. However, many companies have banned the use of generative AI tools in the...

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation Friday that prohibits credit card companies from tracking gun sales in Florida. His office posted an announcement to the Florida Governor’s home page saying, “Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill (SB) 7054 and SB 214 to protect the personal finances of Floridians from government overreach and woke corporate monitoring.” The post noted, “SB 214 prohibits credit card companies from using firearm-specific Merchant Category Codes and institutes a fine for violations of Florida’s consumer protections against gun owner registries.”

After getting lucky for his first few years in office, Newsom now faces his first major budgetary crisis. How he responds will show a lot about his leadership skills. Gavin Newsom is perhaps one of the luckiest governors in California history given that he has presided during an economic boom that, at one point, left the state with an almost unimaginable $97.5-billion budget surplus. Mainly, all he had to do was propose spending programs—and he had compliant Democratic supermajorities to give him what he wanted. Even the COVID-19 situation, despite posing a serious public-health challenge, was a godsend for the...

Russia tried to destroy a US-made Patriot air defense system in Ukraine last week with a hypersonic missile, two US officials told CNN. The attack failed, and the Ukrainian military instead intercepted the missile using the Patriot system, the officials said, marking their first known successful Ukrainian use of the advanced air defense system only weeks after it arrived in country.

Former Minnesota officer Kimberly Potter has been released from prison after serving 16 months of a two-year sentence in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, whom she shot after mistaking her gun for a Taser during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, according to the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Potter was released from the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee at 4 a.m. on Monday, the department said, noting the early hour was due to safety concerns and the potential for violent protests outside the facility. Potter was convicted of two counts of manslaughter in the killing of 20-year-old Wright, an unarmed Black...

Title 42 migrant expulsions will finally come to an end. And good riddance. A bad COVID-era policy adopted by the Trump administration and extended by the Biden administration, Title 42 upended a longstanding process outlined in immigration law and allowed border agents to quickly eject refuge-seeking migrants without allowing them to apply for asylum in the U.S. The Title 42 order applied to people entering the country from Canada or Mexico, though expulsions overwhelmingly took place at the U.S.-Mexico border. Around 2.7 million migrants—largely from Mexico and Central America—were expelled under this order and sent back to Mexico or their...

The Department of Homeland Security listed pro-life mothers as potential “radicalization suspects” in a violence prevention training guide just days after President Biden took office, documents obtained by a conservative legal watchdog show. DHS’s Office of Terrorism and Violence lists profiles of various domestic extremists in an internal memo dated Jan. 29, 2021 — including a “middle-aged pro-life advocate” — and asks participants to make “real-life decisions” to confront each. “This is Ann, a resident of Elkville in rural America,” one profile reads. “Ann has always been religious but since the death of her mother, she’s become increasingly devout. She’s...

Ron DeSantis always makes a big deal about signing all of the Florida laws that stem from new legislation the people behind his administration submit from his office. However, when he signed the new law that sealed all his travel records [Previously Discussed Here], he did so quietly. .... Snip.... Ron DeSantis ’24 is 100%, guaranteed to be an absolute construct of the billionaires, multinationals, and hedge fund managers who must stop Donald Trump and the America First platform. Look backward at the professional Republican outcomes in 2018, 2020 and 2022 to see the background of what this is all...

Much has been written about the remarkably large percentage of Americans who don’t want President Joe Biden to run for a second term. Most of the commentariat, however, tiptoes around the obvious reason they want him to retire after one term. When they can’t avoid discussing Biden’s bizarre behavior and weird maundering, most pundits hide behind vague allusions to his age, but the public has long known that the real problem is his steady cognitive decline.As far back as November of 2021, a Politico/Morning Consult poll found that only 46 percent of voters agreed with the following statement: “Joe Biden...

BUENOS AIRES, May 12 (Reuters) - Argentina's annual inflation rate soared to 109% in April, the country's statistics agency said on Friday, smashing past analyst forecasts and stoking anger among hard-hit consumers who are increasingly having to skimp and save to get by. The price spike has pushed one in four people into poverty in a country that has battled for decades with high inflation, along with cyclical debt and currency crises. Dwindling central bank reserves are now imperiling the government's finances. "They've turned us into a country of beggars," Carlos Andrada, a 60-year-old self-employed worker, told Reuters as he...

Jamie Dimon warned that a U.S. default would be “potentially catastrophic,” and pleaded with politicians to “please negotiate a deal” before the country breaches its borrowing cap in early June. If the U.S. defaults on its debt, the JPMorgan CEO warned in a Thursday interview with Bloomberg TV, it would hit “contracts, collateral, clearing houses, and affect clients definitely around the world.” Dimon expressed some hope that the U.S. would be able to negotiate a solution if markets begin to worry that a default might happen. "The closer you get to it, you will have panic" in terms of market...

More than 40 years after he tried to kill the president, John Hinckley Jr. is trying to to forge a new path. In 1982, Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity after shooting and wounding President Ronald Reagan, as well as the White House press secretary, a Secret Service agent and a Washington police officer. Then 27, Hinckley was committed by the court to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he lived until 2016, when the court granted him convalescent leave, allowing him to live with his mother in the gated Kingsmill community outside of Williamsburg. He...