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PASADENA, Texas – An 18-year-old Pasadena Taco Bell employee has been arrested after allegedly pulling a gun on a customer in the drive-thru after the customer decided to cancel their order, according to the Pasadena Police Department. Bryan Alexander Carranza, who, according to court records, is a shift lead at Taco Bell, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful carrying of a weapon. He’s being held on a $20,000 bond but prosecutors asked for his bond to be set at $40,000. The incident happened Saturday evening at the Taco Bell located at 302 Southmore Ave. “The...

A Spanish-speaking Taco Bell employee in Florida was let go by the fast food chain after a video circulating on social media this week showed her refusing to serve an English-speaking customer. The video shows the employee at the restaurant’s Hialeah location appearing to become annoyed when customer Alexandria Montgomery tried placing her order in English, the Miami Herald reported. WSVN 7 News ✔ @wsvn "No habla ingles!" Hialeah Taco Bell employee fired for refusing to take order from customer who doesn't speak Spanish. Watch full video here: After getting nowhere, Montgomery asks to speak with a manager. The employee,...

Comas. Ha ha. There’s a funny topic. In the news recently was the story of a man named Jake Booth, who is a 35-year-old Army veteran living in Florida. He had suffered a heart attack as a result of a bad case of pneumonia and was put into a medically-induced coma. He woke from the coma on April 3, after a full 48 days of lying unconscious in a hospital bed. As he slowly opened his eyes, he saw his closest friends and family members sitting anxiously by his side, waiting for him to speak his first words. You would...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Delaware County Sheriff's office are working on a joint investigation after a man was struck by a car and killed after he was dropped off at Taco Bell. Investigators have put a state trooper on desk duty and two deputies on paid leave while they look into what happened on July 28. Just after 9 p.m, six 911 calls were made indicating that Uriel Juarez Popoca, 22, was driving erratically along I-71 in Delaware County. Two Delaware County deputies found him sitting in his vehicle in the median and when...

SALINAS -- Jose Martinez left Mexico around 1988 and toiled for years in a patchwork of fields here, harvesting berries and lettuce and barely making ends meet. In 2002, Martinez took advantage of a city law created to help novice entrepreneurs start businesses related to the city's largely Latino cultural heritage. He bought a taco truck, one of 31 licensed mobile catering vehicles in Salinas, and built it into a modestly profitable operation. But the City Council, responding to a business group and its most vocal members -- the owners of Mexican restaurants -- is poised to vote next month...

  SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Taco Bell ordered scallions removed from its 5,800 U.S. restaurants Wednesday after tests suggested they may be responsible for the E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least three dozen people in three states. The fast-food chain said preliminary testing by an independent lab found three samples of green onions appeared to have a dangerous strain of the bacterium. "In an abundance of caution, we've decided to pull all green onions from our restaurants until we know conclusively whether they are the cause of the E. coli outbreak," said Greg Creed, president of Irvine,...

Woman found guilty in dead puppy attack Wed Sep 6, 10:18 PM ET ST. LOUIS - A woman accused of pummeling a dog breeder over the head with a dead Chihuahua puppy was found guilty Wednesday of misdemeanor assault and trespassing. Lisa Hopfer, 34, faces up to 18 months in jail and a $1,500 fine. The trial featured X-rays and pictures of the dead dog, and testimony from Linda Hulsey, who said Hopfer assaulted her at least 30 times on June 7 with the corpse of the Chihuahua she sold to Hopfer. Hopfer told police that after buying the puppy...

Top conservative leaders have written President Bush telling him to drop his insistence on a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship for illegal aliens and instead support the 85 percent of congressional Republicans who want to tighten law enforcement first. Signers include William J. Bennett, Robert H. Bork, Ward Connerly, David A. Keene, Phyllis Schlafly and a number of think-tank academics and pundits. The immigration debate is the first major issue on which Mr. Bush finds himself opposing a majority of Republicans in Congress and depending on Democrats to deliver a victory. In their letter, the conservatives tell Mr....

Look at him. It is a bloated Ted Kennedy with Demagoguery written all over his booze mottled bloated face. And one of the most demagogic speeches EVER given by a U.S. Sentator was delivered by The Swimmer on the subject of illegal immigration. Of couse his demagoguery is the reason why the DUmmies admire him as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Kennedy gave a barn-burner at the immigration rally yesterday." Whenever you hear a DUmmie describe a speech as being a "barn-burner" then you know it is off the scale of sanity. So let us now read...

Los Angeles Daily News Trial ordered for dog owner By Karen MaeshiroStaff Writer Friday, September 05, 2003 - LANCASTER -- A retired school cafeteria manager from whom county officials seized more than 200 Chihuahuas was ordered Friday to stand trial on felony animal cruelty and other charges. Emma Harter, 72, of Acton was bound over for trial following a two-day preliminary hearing at which a Los Angeles County veterinarian testified that the dogs lived in unsanitary conditions, suffered a variety of diseases and lacked proper medical care. Harter, who is free on her written promise to appear in court,...

Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber, speaking at a news conference in Carson yesterday, reiterated the league's intention to expand in the near future. No surprise there. What's a major league surprise is where MLS might go. San Diego. Deputy City Manager Bruce Herring confirmed that MLS officials called him a few weeks ago to discuss the availability of Qualcomm Stadium, considering that the Padres are moving to a new home and MLS plays a spring-summer schedule. "We're very interested," Herring said. "It would be such a good fit for the stadium and for the San Diego community." It wouldn't...

<p>Two Michigan men are rolling in the dinero today after a Grand Rapids federal jury ordered Taco Bell Corp. to pay $30.2 million for stealing the idea of "Dinky" the talking Chihuahua.</p> <p>Thomas Rinks, 40, and Joseph Shields, 42, both of the Grand Rapids area, sued Taco Bell in 1998 saying they were never paid a doggone cent for creating the canine sensation that makes Lassie's fame look like a used chew toy.</p>