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Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Yahoo
Benton County woman faces SNAP fraud charge
BENTON COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – A Benton County woman was arrested on April 23 following a SNAP fraud investigation conducted by the Investigations Division of the Mississippi Department of Human Service (MDHS). MDHS announced that Amanda Lauren Feathers received $18,764 in SNAP benefits by not reporting household income and composition accurately to the agency. The Benton County District Attorney secured an indictment on April 15, 2025, and Feathers later turned herself into MDHS and Benton County officials. Man arrested for stealing DoorDash order from retired Madison County deputy 'This is a great example of collaboration between our investigations team, County offices, District Attorney's, and local law enforcement,' said MDHS Inspector General Sandra Griffith. Suspected fraud can be reported to MDHS online by submitting the MOHS Fraud Tip Form at calling the Fraud Tip Line at 1-(800)-299-6905, or email at fraud@ Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Guardian
08-04-2025
- Lifestyle
- The Guardian
‘A true trailblazer': designer Perri Cutten remembered for her enduring mark on Australian fashion
A few years ago, a friend lent me an ankle-length navy coat by Perri Cutten. It was the middle of the pandemic and having hastily returned to Melbourne from Paris, I had left my winter wardrobe behind. The vintage coat was one of Cutten's signatures: 100% merino wool, double breasted with a raglan sleeve. It made me feel powerful but feminine – so much so that when my wardrobe finally arrived, I didn't want to give it back. Cutten, who passed away on Friday 4 April, established her eponymous brand in Melbourne in 1981, opened her first boutique in Armadale the following year and had decades of success designing clothes for generations of corporate Australian women. 'Women had just become part of the workforce in a much bigger way than they'd been,' she told the fashion editor Janice Breen Burns in 2011. 'That's what we did; designs that would help [women] fit in and feel feminine but not look silly.' Through a combination of printed silk blouses, soft A-line skirts, tailored jackets and pleat-front pants, that's exactly what Cutten did for her clientele. She relinquished her role as creative director in the early 2000s, but it wasn't until the end of last year that she quietly stepped back from the business at the age of 73. Sign up for our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Burns remembers Cutten as a warm, funny, genuinely admired woman. Along with Margaret Porritt of Feathers and Anthea Crawford, 'she was among the first designers of her generation to shift left of the ideal young, slim, high fashion consumer into broader collections that fit the realities of women's body shapes,' she says. Over the years, the brand collected accolades including four awards from the Fashion Industries of Australia and a Woolmark Award for Excellence. In 1998, Swinburne University – where Cutten studied graphic design – awarded her an honorary doctorate. Kellie Hush, CEO of Australian Fashion Week, recalls growing up in Canberra and being 'very aware' that the Perri Cutten store in Manuka was where the diplomats and politicians shopped. 'It was a brand that represented ambition and success to me,' she says. 'Launching a fashion brand in the 1980s took a lot of guts and ambition. Perri Cutten, was a true trailblazer herself.' Sign up to Saved for Later Catch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tips after newsletter promotion At its peak the business had a dozen stand-alone stores and 20 Myer and David Jones concessions. Eight boutiques remain (including ones in Armadale and Manuka) and the brand is still stocked by David Jones. 'Perri Cutten remains one of David Jones' most loved brands,' says Bridget Veals, the department store's executive general manager of womenswear, footwear and accessories. 'It is a great Australian brand built on a legacy of great cuts, modern fabrications and the ability to meet the changing needs of women's wardrobes through the decades.' Over the weekend the Perri Cutten fashion house posted to Instagram: 'May she be remembered for her pioneering spirit, her impeccable eye, and the enduring mark she left on Australian fashion.'
Euronews
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Euronews
Good grief! Everyone wants a tattoo of Wallace and Gromit villain Feathers McGraw
Forget Freddy Kruger's rusty talons or Darth Vader's dark aura - few cinematic villains have captured the true essence of evil quite like a bowling-pin shaped penguin wearing a red rubber glove to disguise himself as a chicken. His name is Feathers McGraw, and he's still wanted by the authorities - and by everyone else as a tattoo. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Faith Garvie (@faithgarvietattoo) The arch-nemesis of Aardman Animations' beloved Wallace and Gromit franchise, the mischief-making penguin first appeared as a deceptive lodger out to commit a jewellery heist in the 1993 Oscar-winning short-film The Wrong Trousers. Interest in the character spiked again following the Christmas premiere of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, in which Feathers returns for revenge, corrupting Gromit's AI gnome in pursuit of the Blue Diamond. The film was watched by 21.6 million people in the UK, breaking all previous Christmas Day TV records for the past 20 years. It's also been nominated for numerous awards, including Best Animated Feature at the upcoming Academy Awards. Outside of critical acclaim, fans are honouring their favourite character by getting Feathers permanently inked on their bodies. According to British tattoo artists, there's been a notable rise in people requesting the fraudulent chicken. 'In this last week just gone I did six Feathers,' Faith Garvie, a tattoo artist at Black Moon Tattoo Studio in Liverpool, said in an interview with PA news agency. From the classic 'Wanted' poster to black and grey stick n' poke tattoos of Feathers sinisterly stroking a seal, the simplicity of the characters' design allows for peoples' imaginations to run wild. 'I guess it's just the magic of claymation, as he's so emotive, but he doesn't speak at all,' Garvie said, also adding that there are two particular Feathers-featuring scenes that most of her customers are drawn to: 'One of them is from Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers – it's where Feathers gets stuck in a glass bottle. 'Everyone seems to adore that and some people get it with the glove on his head and others without. "There's also a scene - again, where he's in The Wrong Trousers, where he's standing at the bottom of the stairs in Wallace and Gromit's house and he looks over at them, and people get that scene a lot as well." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Faith Garvie (@faithgarvietattoo) The aforementioned tattoo of Feathers as a Blofeld-style villain, his persian cat replaced with a seal, was the idea of 20-year-old student Gia O'Donohoe. 'When I saw the scene with him and the seal, it was a lightbulb moment and I knew it was going to be that one,' she explained. After having it done at the Brass Tattoo Company in Liverpool, O'Donohoe uploaded a picture to X and tagged the official Aardman Animations account, who then liked and reposted it. 'It was kind of crazy, I just decided to tag them and they were one of the first people who liked it, and then they reposted it and then it got 3,000 likes overnight,' O'Donohoe said. While pop culture has always been a bountiful sources of inspiration for impassioned fans getting inked, people are perhaps now more trepidatious about what or who they honour - lest our tastes change, or we find out some horrific behind the scenes development. It's why you can't go wrong with Feathers McGraw, really - a timeless and treasured icon that we already know, without a doubt, to be the absolute worst. Come to think of it, what if all these tattoos are part of Feathers' next big master plan? Secretly stealing and tweaking an invention by Wallace that infuses tattoo ink with a brain-controlling fungus and has us all doing his evil bidding?
