Man Jailed After Drunken Cooking Bout Causes Fire

A Pennsylvania man was jailed on charges of reckless endangerment and resisting arrest after police say he passed out drunk while cooking and caused a small fire.

 


Food Blotter: Women Steal Wine With Their Skirts

Two women in Pembroke Park, Florida, stole $400 worth of wine by hiding the bottles in their skirts.

 


Jury Clears Man in Wine Glass Killing

After four hours of deliberation, a jury in Buffalo, New York, acquitted a man accused of using a wine glass to kill another man.

 


Mayor Vandalizes Convenience Store After He Was Refused Beer

The mayor of Agra, Oklahoma was arrested for spray-painting a convenience store after clerks refused to sell him beer.

 


Tuna Can Defense

A Minnesota grocery store clerk fended off a gunman with a can of tuna.

 


Department of Cheese Crimes

Two women walked into an Oregon Whole Foods Market and stole nearly $600 worth of gouda and blue cheese.

 


Police Arrest Grease Thieves

Police in Nebraska said they pulled over a pickup truck believed to have been used in a series of used cooking grease thefts and arrested two suspects. A string of thefts have involved a total of 4,000 pounds of used cooking grease.

 


Suspects Arrested in Bacon Heist

Two men and a teenager were arrested for steeling three boxes of bacon from an Anderson, Indiana store.

 


Woman Robs Store of 14 Lobsters

New Hampshire police are pursuing a woman who stole 14 lobsters from a Rochester store.

 


Food Comic "Chew" Coming to Showtime

Chew Food graphic novels are big. There's the hit Japanese wine manga Kami no Shizuku ("The Drops of God"), the upcoming comic cookbook from Dirt Candy chef/owner Amanda Cohen, and the much-anticpated Anthony Bourdain collaboration Get Jiro! Now comes news, according to Deadline Hollywood, that Showtime has bought a script for Chew, a "quirky half-hour cop show" based on John Layman and Rob Guillory’s comic series of the same name.

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