Snake head found in can of green beans

A Farmington woman and an LDS Church Young Women's group say they discovered the decapitated head of a snake in a can of Western Family green beans as they prepared dinner for elderly neighbors Wednesday night.

"It looked pretty much like a burnt bean. And then as I got closer to lift it off the spoon, I saw eyes. … That's when I just dropped it and screamed," said Troy Walker, who spotted the snake head when the group was lifting beans out of a slow cooker.

Walker took what she said was a snake head and the empty can back to the Harmons grocery store in Farmington where she bought the beans. She chose to leave the snake head at the store.

"My biggest concern (was) that someone else would get the body," Walker said, adding that Harmons employees were apologetic and gave her a full refund on the 30 or so cans she had purchased.

Walker and the other youth leaders threw out all of the green beans, she said, although the teenagers thought it was "kind of cool and fun."

"I haven't eaten much today because I still get a little queasy," she said Thursday. "I could not eat last night. It was just terrible."

Walker also sent a photo of the snake head to Western Family, which has begun an investigation but could not confirm Thursday exactly what Walker found in her food.

"It's a report of a foreign material in a can of green beans. (That's) what we know," said Pete Craven, Western Family chief financial officer.

The supplier of the green beans has also been notified and a review is underway, Craven said.

"At this point, the product is on hold at the wholesale level. As soon as we know something like this, we stop all shipments until we know what's going on with the foreign material," he said. "Foreign matter is not something we take lightly. We want to know what it is, and we will immediately research and do any level of correction as we can."

The company is determining which lot Walker's can came from, and tracing back where the rest of the lot ended up, according to Sharon McFadden, Western Family vice president of quality control.

Once the other cans in the lot are located, they will be pulled from store shelves.

If the presence of foreign material in the food is confirmed, the supplier of the green beans will be required to complete a corrective action report, McFadden said.

"They will go through their processes and try to determine if there was a failure of process control," she said. "Then they will have to work through that, determine what needs to be changed, and then implement those changes."

For Walker's part, she is keeping a sense of humor about the experience, which she says she will always remember as a "fun little story." The Young Women's leader said she needed to be extra persuasive when texting family members about hosting a dinner at her home this weekend.

"I said, 'I promise I am not going to serve green beans. We are not having green beans,'" she said with a laugh. "Please answer."

President Buhari at the official opening of Business for Africa, Egypt & the World in Sharm El-Sheikh Egypt (Photo)

The Business Forum being organized by the Egyptian government and the African Union Commission is aimed at promoting partnerships and accelerating private sector investment in Africa’s development.

President Buhari is to address African leaders and other at the plenary session of the Business Forum on Nigeria’s perspective on Africa’s growth and development.

Students Protest Closure Of JAMB Portal ‘Before Due Date’

Some secondary school students in Edo State due to enrol for the extermination of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) are protesting against an alleged sudden closure of the JAMB online registration portal before the due date, Channel News reported.

The students staged the protest in Benin City, the capital of the State on Friday.

In their numbers, they complained that the action of examination body would negatively affect their academic careers.

One of the students said: “This protest will not just stop here. We are going to continue until the day the JAMB will be conducted. We are going to disrupt until we are given extension for us to register.

“Some of us here, our forms are online in the CVT centres and these centres are very few in Benin City”.

Another student claimed that they were asked to go and learn a trade, condemning the comment.

She told Channels Television that since 15 of January, the examination board was already short of scratch cards.

But in a swift reaction to the protest the south-south zonal Coordinator of JAMB, Mrs Priscila Ogunsola, dismissed the claims by the students, insisting that JAMB gave enough time for the registration.

She said that JAMB had informed the students that the registration would close on February 5 and explained that some Cyber Cafe owners had thought that they could get access code to register candidates even after the deadline.

“They were hoping to still get that opportunity which never came this time around. That is just the problem,” she said.

Dr. Drew files court statement supporting ‘overly honest’ Janice Dickinson’s claim Bill Cosby raped her

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More than 50 women have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault.

One of Bill Cosby's most high-profile accusers is “overly honest” — and came forward years ago, says Dr. Drew Pinsky.

Model Janice Dickinson, one of more than 50 women accusing the fallen funnyman of sexual assault, told Drew on a 2010 “Celebrity Rehab” episode she had been raped by an unnamed “prominent celebrity” in 1982, the reality TV doctor said in a new, explosive declaration supporting Dickinson’s defamation case against Cosby.

“She said she feared to say the name because it would have legal consequences,” the “Loveline” host wrote in a document obtained by the Daily News.

The “blunt and unvarnished” Dickinson is “an honest person,” Drew added in support of the ex-model, whom Cosby has branded a liar.

“In fact, in the entertainment industry Ms. Dickinson has a reputation for being plain spoken and sometimes overly honest,” he wrote.

Drew, who treated Dickinson for her substance abuse, further argued that the former “America's Next Top Model” judge’s battle with addiction had no bearing on her ability to be truthful.

“In my professional opinion, an addict may get clean and sober and become an honest and truthful person,” he testified in the declaration. “I believe that has been the case for Ms. Dickinson.”

Makeup-free Adele spotted on the shopping hunt in Target despite being a multimillionaire

Rolling in the deals: Proving she is still just a girl from Tottenham, Adele was seen going on a very moderately-priced shopping spree in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday

She is one of the world's most successful singers but that does not mean this star is about to splash cash about willy-nilly.

Proving that despite being worth an estimated $75 million she is still just a girl from Tottenham, Adele was seen going on a very moderately-priced shopping spree in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday.

The 27-year-old no doubt has brand everywhere desperate to give her the latest and greatest luxury products but instead she preferred a trip to her local Target and CVS pharmacy.

The Hello hitmaker was seen taking her time perusing the racks of West Hollywood's Target checking out some beauty products.

The star was also on the hunt for something fun for her three-year-old son Angelo and was seen picking up and Incredible Hulk colouring book.

As any person who has stepped into Target knows, while you may go in for one thing it can be quite a shopping vortex.

Despite her fame, Adele was not surrounded in helpers and pushed her own trolley up and down the aisles for some time.

While an eagle eye photographer obviously spotted the star, most of Adele's fellow shoppers were oblivious to the mega star they had in their midst.

The famous red head left the usual fancy clothing of celebs at home in favour of something a little more down to earth.

Perhaps wanting just to be comfy and cosy after her glamorous Grammys appearance on Monday, the English star headed out in a pair of loose fit black harem pants and a baggy black T-shirt.

The star left her porcelain skin free of makeup and her red locks fell unstyled to her collar with the front pushed out of her face by a pair of sunglasses.

Somehow not finding everything she needed, the songstress then headed to the nearby CVS where this time she was escorted around by her big burly bodyguard.

This week has been a big one for the singer, having performed at the Grammys and also appearing on Ellen.

The 27-year-old's performance at the awards was not what many have come to expect from the talented Brit.

First a sound glitch meant many could not hear the star as she sang All I Ask and the bits fans could hear, were a bit 

lacklustre.

Adele confessed to Ellen DeGeneres that she was devastated over what happened. 

'I cried pretty much all day yesterday,' the 27-year-old singer told Ellen on Wednesday.

'I don't feel like it could go that much worse than the Grammys though. So I feel like I'm alright now. Anything that happens, dust it off!' 

She immediately knew something was wrong, noting: 'I heard it straight away. And I wanted to turn, I knew what it was because in rehearsal on Saturday they were like we’re going to double mic the piano just in case one doesn’t work. 

'And I knew where the mic was and I wanted to turn around and lift it up, but I froze.'

The Hello singer said she felt 'so embarrassed' afterwards, but will be ready next time a mishap occurs during a live performance.

'Next time I have any sound issues I am gonna stop. I'll be like, sorry that's not working for me. If we have time to do it again, let’s do it. Otherwise, bye!'