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Julie Felss Masino and board ignored Sardar Biglari's criticism of $700M transformation plan calling it 'obvious folly'. Cracker Barrel’s slide into a rebranding debacle began with a phone call at 4:30 p.m. on May 16, 2024. That day, Cracker Barrel’s new CEO, Julie Felss Masino, got on the phone with investors and unveiled the details of a "strategic transformation plan" her board of directors had approved. The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints." Over the next months, Masino and her board of directors dismissed at least four warnings by...

Former Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is recovering from injuries after two alleged attacks by his "live-in" girlfriend, the Harris County District Attorney's office told KHOU 11 News. Court records show 40-year-old Leslie Ann Caron was arrested and charged with injury to an elderly person. From the DA's Office: Caron is accused of kicking Dewhurst, 74, in the ribs during an argument on May 13. Dewhurst told police she left their home but came back on May 17 and kicked him in the ribs again. He said Caron also hit him with a pot, scratched him and bit him. Dewhurst...

HOUSTON — Former Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is recovering from injuries after two alleged attacks by his "live-in" girlfriend, the Harris County District Attorney's office told KHOU 11 News. Court records show 40-year-old Leslie Ann Caron was arrested and charged with injury to an elderly person.

A New Jersey woman beat a 55-year-old man to death with a tape dispenser and shower rod in a home they shared, authorities said. Mary Carbone, 56, allegedly attacked Frank Stochel, a local high school janitor, last month at a Manchester Township residence that the victim owned with his wife. His lifeless body was found on Feb. 24 and Carbone was arrested on murder charges Wednesday, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office announced Thursday.

FORT TOWSON, Okla. - A woman accused of her husband's murder posed for an eerie mugshot following her arrest Tuesday. Shanda Johnson-Williams, 48, smiled wide while standing in front of the camera at the jail where she was brought after the arrest. Johnson-Williams was charged with first-degree murder in connection to the stabbing death of her husband, Jamie Williams, in Fort Towson, Oklahoma. Police found Jamie unconscious at the couple's home Sunday. He was later pronounced dead before he could be transported to the hospital, the New York Post reports.