Cindy Morgan was found dead at the age of 69.

 Cindy Morgan, the actor best known for her roles in 1980s movies "Caddyshack" and "Tron," has died at age 69.

He believes his phone number was used by grocery shoppers who wanted to save money, but don't have their own accounts with the company.

 

Charlotte man's 'Jenny' phone number racks him up thousands in Food Lion rewards

                       

If you're a fan of music from the '80s, then you're probably familiar with Tommy Tutone's hit song "867-5309/Jenny." Maybe you even tried calling the number, but adding in your local area code.

In Charlotte, North Carolina, one man has that famed number: Chris Och. He bought the 704 version of the beloved digits more than a decade ago, just because it was well-known.

"It was one of the things on my bucket list actually," Och said. "I wanted a memorable phone number, and I didn't want business cards for my business." 

And aside from making calls, he's used it for another thing: Grocery store rewards programs. Och goes to his local Food Lion all the time to shop. He will go to the checkout line and enter his phone number at the register so he can claim rewards. 

Each time, it shows how much he has saved over a year.

“My receipt shows $92,965 as what I’ve saved," Och said. 

That means he must have spent millions of dollars at Food Lion stores across the area, right? For him, that's not the case at all.

Och suspects when someone doesn't have an account, they use his phone number so they can save some money at checkout. But that has some unintended consequences; at the bottom of the Food Lion rewards app, you have the choice to donate your savings to a good cause. That's something Och tried to do until an unexpected thing happened out of the blue. 

"They said 'By the way your phone number cannot be used anymore,'" Och said. 

Food Lion deactivated his number from their system, and when it turned off, his savings dropped to zero. 

“I want to make sure they use what’s going in there," Och said. 

Food Lion sent  a statement about what happened:

At Food Lion, we take customer concerns seriously. While we regret this situation is happening to our customer, Food Lion also has a responsibility to prevent misuse of the MVP customer loyalty program. Due to the high volume of transactions associated with the phone number, our systems were alerted to potential misuse. At that time, the customer’s phone number was deactivated in our system. Unfortunately, the phone number was re-activated. However, Food Lion has since taken steps to deactivate this phone number.

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Food Lion’s MVP Program is designed to save customers money at the point of transaction. There is an additional program within the MVP program, Shop & Earn, that allows customers to earn rewards, which on average amounts to $20 per month, through purchasing qualifying items. These rewards, once earned, are applied to a customers’ next grocery purchase OR can be donated by the customer to a local food bank. 

"It's sad that it happens," a retired Clark County judge said a few hours after the attack. "But it happens."

 

Retired Las Vegas judge says courtroom attacks are not far-fetched

The wild viralness of the video of a man catapulting the bench in a Clark County courtroom and pouncing on the judge presiding over his case, indicates it’s a sight not many people have ever seen.

But for those who have donned the black robe for any length of time, the notion of such an attack is not so far-fetched. 

“It’s sad that it happens,” William “Bill” Kephart, a retired Clark County judge, said Wednesday, a few hours after the attack. “But it happens.”

Kephart was a judge for 10 years, first for four years in Las Vegas Justice Court and then in the Eighth Judicial District Court for the next six. His courtroom was just down the hall from his colleague’s, Judge Mary Kay Holthus, a former prosecutor and current District Court Judge. Holthus on Wednesday was attacked by a defendant she was sentencing in her courtroom, Deobra Redden, 30.

“You can see people in that courtroom care about her and want to make sure that she’s safe,” Kephart said, referring to Holthus’ courtroom clerk who can be seen on the video attempting to beat Redden into submission. A courtroom marshal and others also stepped in to free Holthus from Redden’s clutches.

Redden’s violent outburst is a reminder to judges like Kephart of how serious the stakes inside a courtroom are. Kephart told that given those stakes – and the tremendous volume of litigants and defendants who have business inside the Regional Justice Center –  it’s surprising there aren’t more episodes of this type. Moreover, he says, some judges may be swayed by the stakes of some of the criminal sentences they issue or decisions they make in multi-million-or-billon-dollar civil cases “I think there’s a few people that might be on the bench that recognize those threats… in a sense that it influences their decisions,” Kephart said. “And, Mary Kay’s not like that.”Holthus did not answer a phone call made to her cell phone Wednesday evening. That call went directly to voicemail. Similarly, a text message sent to her cell phone went unanswered. Another retired Clark County judge who spoke with KLAS indicated that, in her experience on the bench,  criminal defendants are more likely to turn on their own attorney than on the judge.

 

Release of limited-edition Stanley cups is causing chaos at Target stores

The hottest gift so far of the new year appears to be an exclusive line of Stanley cups.

The limited-edition stainless-steel tumblers are only available at Target stores and have sold out at several locations nationwide.

Multiple customers have shared videos from Target stores showing people lining up as early as 3 a.m. to get their hands on the product that is even selling out online.

TikTok user Victoria Robino shared a video where numerous customers can be seen grabbing what cups they could from the shelves at an Arizona Target Her video has been viewed more than 17 million times.

“Stanley definitely knows what they are doing. Everyone and their mom wants one,” viewer EveCali Love commented.

The cups come in different colors, including the Winter Pink Starbucks edition just released on Wednesday. They are being sold for $45, if shoppers can find one.

A number  of shoppers in video  lining up outside of a Fresno-area Target trying to get their hands on the limited-edition cups.

The cups are part of Stanely’s Galentine’s Day Collection, referring to the date celebrating female friendship.

Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” has died. She was 100.

 

Glynis Johns, 'Mary Poppins' star who first sang Sondheim's 'Send in the Clowns,' dies at 100

NEW YORK — Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She was 100.

Mitch Clem, her manager, said she died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles of natural causes. Johns was known to be a perfectionist about her profession — precise, analytical and opinionated. The roles she took had to be multi-faceted. Anything less was giving less than her all.

“As far as I’m concerned, I’m not interested in playing the role on only one level,” she told The Associated Press in 1990. “The whole point of first-class acting is to make a reality of it. To be real. And I have to make sense of it in my own mind in order to be real."

Johns’ greatest triumph was playing Desiree Armfeldt in “A Little Night Music,” for which she won a Tony in 1973. Sondheim wrote the show’s hit song “Send in the Clowns” to suit her distinctive husky voice, but she lost the part in the 1977 film version to Elizabeth Taylor. “I’ve had other songs written for me, but nothing like that,” Johns told the AP in 1990. “It’s the greatest gift I’ve ever been given in the theater.” Others who followed Johns in singing Sondheim’s most popular song include Frank Sinatra, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan and Olivia Newton-John. It also appeared in season two of “Yellowjackets” in 2023, sung by Elijah Wood.

In Wednesday's post, Spears also wrote that it was “far from the truth” that her 2023 bestselling memoir, “The Woman In Me,” was released without her approval.

 

Britney Spears shoots down album rumors, vowing to 'never return to the music industry'

LOS ANGELES —Brittney Spears is shooting down rumors of a new album, vowing to “never return to the music industry.” At the same time, Spears noted in Wednesday's Instagram post, she's still writing music — just for other people.

“When I write, I write for fun or I write for other people !!!” she wrote. “I’ve written over 20 songs for other people the past two years !!! I’m a ghostwriter and I honestly enjoy it that way !!!”

The Instagram caption, in which she blasted those who “keep saying I’m turning to random people to do a new album,” was paired with a photo of a Guido Reni painting of Salome holding the head of John the Baptist.
This isn't the first time Spears has indicated she's retiring from releasing her own music. In July 2021, while still under the infamous conservatorship that controlled her life, money and voice for nearly 14 years, her longtime manager Larry Rudolph resigned, saying she had no intention of resuming her career. Just after being released from the conservatorship later that year, she took to Instagram to say she was scared of the music business and that not doing her own music was an act of defiance against her family.
But the next year, she released the single “Hold Me Closer,” a collaboration with Elton John that spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 6. Last year's “Mind Your Business,” a single with will.i.am, was poorly reviewed and failed to make the Hot 100, though. Spears' last full album was 2016's “Glory.”In Wednesday's post, Spears also wrote that it was “far from the truth” that her 2023 bestselling memoir, “The Woman In Me,” was released without her approval.

 Our Sources Inhouse: Will Sign Bill 

Our inside sources from the Statehouse said he will be signing that Bill into law.