California gas station manager is fired after accidentally setting price of premium fuel at 69 cents a gallon

John Szczecina, the manager of a Shell station in Rancho Cordova, put the price – which should have been $6.99 for a gallon of premium – at just 69 cents .  ‘Well, it was a mistake,’ said Szczecina. ‘And I thought, “this is a nightmare”‘.  People started spreading word about the low prices on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and people started lining up.  ‘So I just took responsibility for it and I said ‘yeah it’s my fault, and I’m to blame,’ Szczecina said.  The mistake ended up costing the Shell station nearly $20,000 and cost Szczecina his job.

Szczecina’s sister, Paula Jackson, has started a Gofundme to help her brother pay back the money the Shell station lost and avoid her brother being sued.  As of Wednesday morning, the efforts had raised just under $3,500 of their initial goal of $16,000.

After a 62-year run, Colerain Bowl has announced plans to close by June 30.

“The economic landscape of recent years has forced our decision to discontinue operations,” wrote Gina Ruggiere, in a post on the Colerain Bowl Facebook page. “It is a bittersweet end of an era and we wish our customers, employees and the greater Colerain community all the best.”

It’s the second bowling alley to close since the pandemic. Brentwood Bowl in Springfield Township closed in September 2020.

Netflix is planning a ‘Squid Game’ reality show

Boasting BIGGEST cash prize in TV history with $4.56MILLION and whopping 456 player field.

Netflix is doing “Squid Game” for real (without any of the blood and gore).

The streaming platform has approved a reality TV series called “Squid Game: The Challenge,” which will pit 456 contestants against each other in a series of games inspired by the hit show.

“The stakes are high, but in this game the worst fate is going home empty-handed,” the company said in a statement Tuesday.

Netflix has opened casting for the show to English-language speakers around the world. Filming will take place in the U.K. The series is being co-produced by production firms Studio Lambert and The Garden, which is part of British broadcaster ITV.

Amber Heard DENIES she’s been CUT from Aquaman 2

Actress brands rumors ‘insensitive and insane’ hours after she REPEATED defamatory claims on Today show that Johnny Depp beat her

Sources claimed to Just Jared that the 36-year-old is officially being dropped from the sequel to her 2018 movie Aquaman, The claims come after the end of a sensational six-week court case between Heard and Depp, 59, during which Warner Bros executive Walter Hamada admitted that producers previously considered recasting her. Filming on the sequel has already wrapped, but it is now being alleged that Heard’s scenes will all be re-shot with a new actress in the role.  Aspokesperson for Heard furiously hit back at the claims about their client’s axing from the movie, telling DailyMail.com: ‘The rumor mill continues as it has from day one – inaccurate, insensitive, and slightly insane’.  Hamada testified during Heard and Depp’s trial that there were delays in announcing Heard would appear in the second movie because producers were having ‘conversations about recasting her’.  News of Heard’s alleged recast came just hours after she doubled down on her allegations of abuse against Depp during an explosive Today interview with Savannah Guthrie, in which she blasted the ‘unfair’ verdict.  The interview marked the first time that Heard had spoken out publicly since she a jury ruled that she defamed her ex-husband and ordered her to pay him $10 million in damages.  Depp was ordered to pay Heard $2 million in compensatory damages; his legal team said last week that he may waive her payment of $8 million with deductions.

More than 20K without power in Tri-State; Duke Energy says power will be restored by Wednesday night

All power will be restored in the Tri-State by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, Duke Energy announced Tuesday.

More than 20,000 people are still without power after storms swept through the area Monday. At its peak, Duke Energy reported more than 166,000 outages region. Around 20% of Butler and Warren counties had no power.

Crews from Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and North Carolina to help with repairs after thousands of people in the Tri-State lost power due to strong storms.

Is my Food Safe to Eat after a Power Outage?

Tips from the CDC and the Cincinnati Health Department:

• First and foremost, keep the refrigerator and freezer doors shut. If you limit the number of time that cold air escapes the fridge, you’ll probably be able to keep it longer.
• Your food in the refrigerator is more at-risk to spoil than freezer food.
• Perishable food in the fridge — like milk, eggs, uncooked meats and cooked vegetables — will be safe for 4-6 hours, according to the CDC. The Cincinnati Health Department says that you should worry once perishable foods have been kept at 41 degrees or warmer; 41 to 140 degrees is the “danger zone” for thawed, perishable foods.
• Frozen foods, however, can stay safe for up to 48 hours in a closed, full freezer (a half-full freezer will keep food safe for 24 hours), the CDC says. If the foods contain ice crystals, they can be refrozen or cooked. The health department suggests adding “bags of ice or dry ice to the freezer if it appears the power will be off for an extended time.”
• If the color, odor or texture of a food is suspect, throw it out. Or, as the CDC and health department say, “When in doubt, throw it out.”
• Some foods may be sub-par after being stored at room temperature, but they will not be dangerous to eat. Butter or margarine, cheeses, condiments (excluding mayonnaise), vinegar-based salad dressings, fresh, uncut fruits, raw vegetables, pastries and fruit juices all fall into this category.

Colerain Bowl will close this month

General Motors Is Developing a Car Rental Service for the Moon [PIC]

 SOURCE  General Motors is looking to make rental cars that are truly out of this world.

The automaker has teamed up with Lockheed Martin to develop a line of Lunar Mobility Vehicles that will provide transportation for manned missions visiting the Moon.

The collaboration aims to have the vehicles ready ahead of the first manned Moon missions of the 21st century, which are currently slated for 2025.

The vehicles are being designed with autonomous driving capability and platforms that can handle carrying humans or gear around the lunar surface.

The project is moving forward independently of NASA’s Artemis program and is set to go without any government contracts to back it.

GM is using the same “driver-in-the-loop” simulator it employed in the development of the GMC Hummer EV, which halved its time to market to two years.

The system has been programmed with a recreation of a section of the Moon’s surface and set to one-sixth of Earth’s gravity.

“The things that you would do to make a vehicle good in an off-road environment on Earth are the same things you would do on the Moon, it’s just a shift in the numbers,” said Jeff Vogt, GM advanced vehicle dynamics lead engineer.

A GM spokesperson told FOX Business the idea is that the vehicles will be sent to the Moon ahead of the mission, then made available for lease to any government-led expeditions that visit the Moon, either from the U.S. or other nations.

The vehicles will be recharged using solar power and are being engineered with easy maintenance that should give them a lifespan of about 10 years.