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A Hooters location in Charleston, West Virginia, saw hundreds gather for a candlelight vigil in honor of the building being demolished to make way for a gas station. Former employees and residents gathered to share hugs and tears while mourning the loss of the building via candlelight. The location had become a local landmark before its closure. A sizeable group of young men also gathered at the building site to hoot, holler, and even crowd-surf. "Long live Hooters!" the crowd yelled, as the youngsters screamed enthusiastically into local news cameras.

A World War II and Korean War veteran who received a Purple Heart celebrated his 101st birthday at Hooters — and has vowed to return there every year until he dies. Harry Perez Cerezo, a retiree from Texas, was joined by his family, friends, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization when he rang in his milestone birthday at the chain's El Paso location on January 5. The centenarian was serenaded by the Hooters girls and gifted a signed Hooters hat 'I have never seen him cry, and we saw him cry there. His tears just came rolling down,' Harry...

The controversial reparations committee in San Francisco had to postpone a meeting after one of its members got stuck in Colombia where he visited Hooters. The far-left city of San Francisco approved a task force in 2021 that aimed to study “financial compensation, community programs and other ways to make reparations to the descendants of slaves,” according to the Daily Mail. Among the committee’s members is San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton, who did not return as scheduled on Tuesday from his vacation to Colombia, during which he visited Hooters.

A meeting of a controversial reparations committee in San Francisco had to be postponed because one of the members of the city's board of supervisors was stuck in Colombia following a vacation which included a stop at a Hooters. San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton was due back in the city for the meeting on Tuesday. Due to his absence, the meeting will be delayed until March. The committee is planning to dispense $5 million per qualifying person in the Bay Area... Under the proposal, San Francisco will give $5 million to each eligible black person who lives in the city....

From the 13 minute video:"Weird History is going to get some wings at the Hooters restaurant. While many people may be turned off by the idea of a restaurant called Hooters, the history of Hooters is actually full of weird facts that may make even those most resistant willing to give it a chance. Founded on April Fool’s Day in 1983, the original “restaurant” has expanded into several different business ventures: the brand sells merchandise and a yearly calendar, boasts a Las Vegas casino hotel, and hosts a yearly swimsuit pageant."

PLANO, Texas - A manager of a Hooters restaurant was brutally attacked last week all over some chocolate bars. The fight happened on Oct. 6 at the Hooters off Central Expressway near Southwestern Avenue in Plano. Plano Police said the fight broke out after the manager asked two young boys to leave after they were trying to sell chocolate bars to their customers inside the restaurant. "They were being escorted out and causing issues according to the detectives. Turning over chairs, throwing things," Detective Jerry Minton of the Plano Police Department told KDFW. Once the boys were outside, three men...

ORLANDO, Fla. (WESH) - An 11-year-old Florida boy and his father say there was no reason for the fifth grader’s teacher and principal to tell him his Hooters-themed mask was “offensive to women” and couldn’t be worn at school. Greg Golba and his 11-year-old son Ian don’t understand why the boy had to remove his Hooters mask on Tuesday at Sunset Park Elementary School in Windermere, Florida. The mask is orange with the word “Hooters” written on it multiple times in white font. “I don’t think it’s offensive at all. It’s just a restaurant,” Ian said.

Hooters of America LLC has eliminated 416 jobs at 14 corporate-owned North Carolina restaurants in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. That includes 30 employees each at its 3031 High Point Road restaurant in Greensboro and 3122 Garden Road in Burlington. The restaurant chain made the employee reduction decision March 23. A WARN Act notice to the N.C. Commerce Department was received Monday. Hooters officials stressed Wednesday that despite the language it used in the WARN notice, the restaurants remain open for takeout meals with limited staff.{snip} Among those affected are 255 “Hooters girls” servers and 84 kitchen staff. All affected...

Actor George Lopez appeared to accept an Iranian bounty to assassinate President Donald Trump on Sunday evening. Iranian authorities had recently put an $80 million dollar bounty on the president’s head, but according to Lopez, he’ll do it for $40 million instead. “[Iranian] authorities have put a bounty on American President Donald Trump’s head during the televised funeral of General [Qasem Soleimani] after he was assassinated last week,” said Chicano Worldstar to Instagram. “What are your thoughts?” “We’ll do it for half,” replied Lopez from his official Instagram account. When the George Lopez is not threatening to assassinate the president,...

A federal court ruling over a ban on women going topless in public has essentially made it legal for women to go topless in public in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Kansas, and Oklahoma, according to a local TV station. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is over those six states, struck down the topless ban in Ft. Collins, Colo. after two women sued the city for the right to go topless in public. Since Ft. Collins is not appealing the decision (the next step would be the Supreme Court), that means topless bans in those six states are...

Video Went Viral Thanks To World Star Hip Hop YouTube Personality Tommy Sotomayor Is Asked To Remove MAGA Hat at Hooters Radio talk show host, YouTube personality, and avid Trump supporter Tommy Sotomayor was asked by a Hooters waitress to remove his MAGA hat and his response was pretty epic. At one hilarious point, Sotomayor locates the Hooters manager and explains the situation to him, to which the manager responds, “Are you shitting me?” Tommy puts the waitress on blast! (Video at Link)

George Lopez got into a physical altercation with a man who reportedly was harassing him with pro-Trump rhetoric at a Hooters in New Mexico. The comedian was in Las Cruces Sunday to film the upcoming faith-based movie “Walking with Herb” when TMZ, which obtained video of the incident, reported that the unidentified man started hectoring him with comments about his politics and yelling “MAGA.” In the video, the man appeared to be lying in wait inside the Hooters when Lopez walked up. “Here comes my boy, George,” he said.

Black women in San Francisco are disproportionately arrested compared with their white counterparts, according to a new analysis of state arrest data from the Center on Criminal and Juvenile Justice. Black women represent 5.8% of the city’s female population, but accounted for 45.5% of all female arrests in 2013, according to the report from the nonprofit, which works to reduce incarceration. For arrests related to weapons and narcotics—both felonies—black women made up 77% and 68% of all female arrests, respectively. Black women were arrested "at a per capita rate 13.4 times higher than women of other races," says the report....

The Hooters - Another great Philly Band Play it LOUD.

Family friendly isn't exactly the first thing to come to mind when you think of Hooters. But the company, which is opening more than 30 new outlets across Asia, plans to change that — with the help of a new image. According to Neil Bailey, the president of Hooters Asia, he wants the new stores in the region to have a "family restaurant experience."

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. (CBS4) – A Denver mother wants to set the record straight after her son attended a recent Boy Scout camp that she did not know was sponsored by Hooters. “We just felt it was a little strange that they didn’t tell us,” Michelle Kettleborough, mother of a Denver Cub Scout, told CBS4’s Kelly Werthmann. “We haven’t been ‘outraged.'” When Kettleborough picked up her 7-year-old son from a Cub Scout day camp in Wheat Ridge, Hooters girls were the last thing she expected to see. “It’s created kind of a difficult conversation where there probably didn’t even need...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A clip of the audio recordings revealing Alabama Governor Robert Bentley’s illicit affair with a staffer has now surfaced online. Yellowhammer was given exclusive access to the content of audio recordings captured by Dianne Bentley, Governor Bentley’s ex-wife, during which Governor Bentley makes sexual advances on and recalls sexual encounters with Rebekah Mason, his former communications director who has since become his most senior external advisor. Mrs. Mason’s husband, Jon, also serves in the Bentley administration as Director of Serve Alabama, the Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Volunteer Service. ...

A friend had posted this picture on the Facebook and while I originally had a good guffaw over it, the more I thought about it, the more I realized there is A LOT more going on that what first meets the eye. 1. The Hooter's girl is employed. That means she's working and contributing to society. You may scoff at her profession or that she just got her job because of looks, but ask yourself this question. What in the Patron Saint's Name of Frick is the feminist doing for work? Protesting??? Holding signs??? Mock the Hooters girl all you...

Randy Burbach, who concluded a successful season at Corbett Middle School near Portland, will not be invited back to coach next year after he refused to change his team's victory party location despite complaints from parents, the school district's athletic director said.