TRENTON, N.J. – An operator of TGI Fridays restaurants in New Jersey raided as part of Operation Swill has agreed to pay a $500,000 fine for serving customers cheap alcohol when they paid for top shelf drinks.

Acting Attorney General John Hoffman said Wednesday that the fine levied against Livingston based Briad Group should send a message to every bar and restaurant in the state that “customers should always get what they pay for.”

Super Saturday returns to The Hampton’s this year July 27, 2013! New York, Hampton’s- Hosted by Donna Karan, InStyle, and Kelly Ripa, and generously sponsored by QVC, Super Saturday is a day-long summer fundraising event for the entire family. Activities …

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Stop & Shop’s rebate program that gives customers 5 cents back each time they reuse a shopping bag ended earlier this month, the supermarket chain announced in a letter to customers. According to the letter, signed by Stop & Shop …

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Twinkies make ‘sweetest comeback’ to stores almost everywhere selling out quickly.

Twinkies are making a sweet comeback since the bankruptcy.

The cream-filled sponge cakes and other Hostess snack cakes returned to store shelves Monday after an eight-month sabbatical.

Some of the other animals on site are cattle, horses, sheep, goats, deer, elk, giraffes, rhinos, pigs, camels, llamas, kangaroos, birds, quail, pheasants, ducks, horses, swans, porcupines, tortoises and a few peacocks that walk around as well. Please Do Not forget the Emu that greats you as you drive in or the jackass at the front door. I mean the Donkey of course folks! The staff is amazingly friendly and so full of love for the animals it is delightful.

The Environment Ministry has urged residents to take preventive measures to deal with the ash, including wearing dust masks, covering water supplies and staying indoors as needed.

Mexico City authorities recommend that people sweep up any ash and put it plastic bags to keep it from mixing with water and forming a concrete-like substance that can block drains.

Named tigers because of their black and white stripes, they were initially spotted on Long Island 10 years ago. According to Mary Ellen Laurain, spokeswoman for the Nassau County Department of Health, the Asian tiger was first identified in the county through routine surveillance activities in 2003. In Suffolk, the first showed up in a mosquito trap put out by the county in 2004, Campbell said. They have been moving and have now spread into Brookhaven Town, with a few spotted on the South Fork, he said.

Gator stops traffic on N.C. highway
Wildlife officials were on hand to remove a 300-pound alligator spotted along a North Carolina highway. NBCNews.com’s Dara Brown reports. “Catch me some Gator’s” says New Yorker “Deny” as she watched this Gator Clip. An ongoing joke she tells us.