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USA Today
06-02-2025
- Politics
- USA Today
Federal workers buyout offer in flux
The Trump administration's buyout offer was put on pause. Police scramble to find an egg thief. And a legendary hip-hop producer died. 👋 How's it going?Rebecca Morin here. It's a rainy and cold Thursday here in Washington. Don't slip as you rush to the news! But first: YUCK! 🪲 Federal authorities found 37 live beetles, almost the length of a human hand, at a South California airport. Judge pauses Trump buyout offer A federal judge on Thursday paused the Trump administration deadline for more than 2 million federal employees to decide whether they were going to resign or stay at their government jobs. Before the judge's order, federal workers were given until the end of Thursday to decide. What it means: U.S. District Judge George O'Toole in Boston issued a temporary restraining order and set a hearing for Monday. O'Toole is allowing more time for labor unions to challenge the plan's legality. 'Fork in the Road': The Trump administration last week issued an email with the subject 'The Fork in the Road," which offered workers the option to keep their jobs and agree to new "reforms," or respond to the email with 'Resign' in the subject line. If they chose to resign, they were offered pay and benefits through September. 👉 What to know about the judge's order. Trump to sign order sanctioning ICC over treatment of Israel. Police haven't cracked the case on egg heist Were you scrambling to see if the culprit who stole 100,000 eggs had been caught? Well, after mentioning the story yesterday, so was I. Spoiler: Pennsylvania authorities still haven't cracked the case as of Thursday morning, a police spokesman told USA TODAY in an email. It's unclear how the thousands of eggs were removed at once and what the thief intended to do with them. What happened: On Saturday night, 100,000 organic eggs worth more than $40,000 were reported stolen from a distribution trailer in south-central Pennsylvania. Pete & Gerry's Organics, who operated the facility the eggs were poached from, said Thursday that it is "increasing our security and surveillance to help prevent this from happening again." 🥚 The heist comes amid high egg prices. Real quick Support the Short List andbecome a USA TODAY digital subscriber today. Get ready for more winter weather If you thought the mix of snow, ice and rain that hit the Northeast was the last of it, think again. Another winter storm will roll in from the Dakotas through parts of the Midwest, to all the way to New England. What to expect: Snow will start building up Friday night in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan – with many areas expecting up to a foot of snow by Saturday night. Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio could experience icing as well. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia will be hit with rain or snow by Saturday evening. And if you're in New York and New England, expect to see at least 6 inches of snow. ❄️What else is in the forecast? Irv Gotti, Grammy-winning producer, dies Hip-hop and R&B wouldn't be the same without him. Record executive and music producer Irving Lorenzo, better known as Irv Gotti, has died at 54. Gotti, who worked at Def Jam Recordings and also started Murder Inc. Records, launched the music careers of Ashanti, DMX and Ja Rule. Def Jam said in the statement that Gotti 'helped pave the way for the next generation of artists and producers, a force that reshaped the soundscape of hip hop and R&B." 🎵 More on Gotti's life. A break from the news Rebecca Morin is a senior national news reporter at USA TODAY. Got any thoughts or feedback? Reach out to her atrdmorin@
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Yahoo
Pennsylvania's 100,000-Egg Heist Leaves Local Authorities Scrambling To Find Suspects
Thieves cracked into a distribution trailer in central Pennsylvania last Saturday, making off with about 100,000 eggs from Pete & Gerry's Organics in the borough of Greencastle. The poached eggs are reportedly worth about $40,000, the Associated Press reports. Local authorities are on the case, but as hot as egg prices are these days, don't expect catching the culprits to be over easy. Depending on where you live, that $40,000 valuation may look like it's missing a zero. After all, unless I can no longer do basic math correctly, that works out to $0.40 per egg or 'only' $4.80 a dozen. Also, is it really felony grand larceny if you steal food to feed your bodybuilding family? A family of four could easily go through that many eggs in just a couple of years, and if that sounds like too many eggs to eat per day, ask yourself why you hate gains so much. Meanwhile, days later, the cops are still scrambling to find the culprits, but so far, they've had a shell of a time locating anything. 'We're relying on leads from people from the community. So we're hoping that somebody knows something, and they'll call us and give us some tips,' a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania State Police told reporters. You would think it would be difficult to steal some 8,300-ish cartons of eggs without anyone seeing or hearing something, but unfortunately for authorities and the grocery store's insurance company, the eggs seem to have completely vanished without any witnesses. Will they ever crack the case? Did the thieves steal the eggs for themselves, or are they handing them out to the community? And if they are, are they as hot as Disney's Robin Hood is? Because I'm definitely getting Robin Hood vibes from the First Great Pennsylvania Egg Heist of 2025. For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Someone In Pennsylvania Just Stole A Trailer Full Of Eggs
If the rising cost of eggs and empty shelves keeps you awake at night, you're not alone. Employees at Pete & Gerry's Organics in Greencastle, Pennsylvania went to work on Sunday morning to discover that an entire distribution trailer carrying over 100,000 eggs was stolen from the property. Given the high demand and astronomical cost of eggs these days, that's about $40,000 worth of merchandise. Even though eggs aren't usually the most stolen food in the world, the little golden-yolk beauties have become a hot commodity. Outbreaks of the avian flu, otherwise known as H5N1, have created major supply chain issues and shortages of eggs on grocery store shelves, like the current shortage at Whole Foods. The thieves who stole the eggs from Pete & Gerry's Organics completed the act at about 8:40 p.m. on Saturday, February 1, according to Pennsylvania State Police and have yet to be found. "The thieves could sell them or even use them for vandalizing purposes," Trooper Megan Frazer, a Pennsylvania State Police spokeswoman, told the New York Times in an email this week. "We don't know what purpose of stealing 100,000 would be for at this time. With the extreme increased price of eggs, someone may have thought they could sell them." Read more: 13 Tips From Celebrity Chefs For All Your Egg Needs General panic about egg availability and cost stems from a multi-year outbreak of the avian flu among American poultry. The highly contagious avian influenza has led to the culling of over 150 million egg-laying chickens throughout all 50 states, with no corner of the country left unscathed. The number of birds affected by H5N1 continues to increase, with over 23 million confirmed cases in January 2025 alone. The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts a 20% increase in egg prices over the coming year. Soaring egg prices have caused breakfast chains like Waffle House to tag an additional 50-cent charge per egg that they serve — not exactly a great way to start the morning. As for the great Pennsylvania egg heist this month, the trail has reportedly (or at least publicly) gone cold. Pete & Gerry's Organics claims to be modernizing its surveillance and altering the way it handles security, to "help prevent this from happening again." People on the internet are hatching their own theories about the egg thieves, pointing out that it couldn't have been too easy to drive away unscathed with an entire truck full of eggs. Police are working diligently to crack the case, with promises to update the public once the egg thieves are brought to justice. Read the original article on Tasting Table.
New York Times
05-02-2025
- New York Times
100,000 Eggs Are Stolen in Pennsylvania Amid Shortage
The Pennsylvania State Police said this week that they were investigating the theft on Saturday of 100,000 organic eggs worth more than $40,000 from a distribution trailer in Greencastle, in south-central Pennsylvania. The eggs were stolen at around 8:40 p.m. from a facility operated by Pete & Gerry's Organics, according to a police report. 'The thieves could sell them or even use them for vandalizing purposes,' Trooper Megan Frazer, a State Police spokeswoman, said in an email on Wednesday. 'We don't know what purpose of stealing 100,000 would be for at this time. With the extreme increased price of eggs, someone may have thought they could sell them.' 'The only thing similar I have encountered during my career,' she added, 'was a stolen trailer full of 'tainted chickens.'' Eggs have been a prominent feature in the national news cycle. Their rising cost was a talking point in the presidential campaign. Suppliers are warning about the impact of avian influenza on availability and prices. And this week, Waffle House introduced a 50-cent surcharge on every egg it serves. (The chain says it serves more than 272 million eggs a year.) In Pennsylvania, the trail has gone quiet, at least publicly, since the nighttime raid. But at a time when shoppers across the country are facing empty shelves and higher prices when shopping for eggs, the theft has drawn outsize attention to what would ordinarily be seen as a local event. 'This egg theft incident is definitely unusual and has gained national attention,' Trooper Frazer said. With no new information to report since the theft, local and national news organizations this week are trying to engage readers with egg puns. Thieves 'poached' the eggs from a truck, leaving Pete & Gerry's 'shell shocked,' The New York Post reported. 'Pa. police scramble to crack case,' said in a headline, adding that the investigation would take some 'hard-boiled' detective work. The theft also generated buzz on social media and in public forums as commentators speculated about the logistics of a bulk egg theft. '100k eggs can't be easy to conceal or 'move,'' one person wrote in Reddit's main news forum. The thieves 'need to meet up with the dudes who orchestrated the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist and make breakfast,' another person, apparently an optimist, wrote. Pete & Gerry's Organics, an egg producer that works with family farms to distribute eggs to retailers, said on Wednesday that it was increasing security and surveillance to 'help prevent this from happening again.' It was not immediately clear how so many eggs could be removed from the vehicle and what the thieves intended to do with them, but they possibly did not get to all of the cargo. Eggs are generally shuttled around in cases, in cartons or on pallets, said Karyn Rispoli, the egg managing editor at Expana, a firm that tracks commodity prices. 'Generally a full trailer load of large eggs probably is between $150,000 to $200,000,' she said in an interview. 'It depends on what's in there.' Grocery stores and restaurants are now paying around $7.79 for a dozen Midwest large eggs, the industry standard, up from $3.33 a year ago, according to Expana. Prices have been spiking partly because of inflation, but also because of avian influenza, or bird flu, which made its way to the United States in 2022 after it was detected in Canada. The impact is being felt in households and businesses. Waffle House said this week that consumers and restaurants were being forced to make difficult decisions. Trucking costs are also going up. 'The higher these prices go obviously the truckloads become increasingly expensive,' Ms. Rispoli said. She said that the theft of $40,000 worth of eggs was being widely reported because of the economics behind it. 'I think it highlights the underlying problem, but I don't know that it is necessarily very salacious in its scale,' she said. 'The idea that eggs have gotten so difficult to find, and so expensive that somebody is actually willing to steal them, is the bigger thing of note.'
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Yahoo
Eggs Are The New PS5s As Mystery Thief Steals 100,000 In Overnight Heist
This is not what I eggspected. According to Pennsylvania state police, someone recently made off with a partial truckload of premium, top-shelf, organic eggs. The thief absconded with their protein-rich haul in the night, and now appears to be dust in the wind. The fowl play took place on February 1 around 8:40 p.m. at a distribution trailer for Pete & Gerry's Organics in Antrim Township, according to the State Police. No further leads as to who stoles the eggs or why have been shared so far. Law enforcement estimated the value of the 100,000 eggs at $40,000, which if you've ever gazed longingly at Pete & Gerry's free range extra large brown eggs on the shelf at the grocery store sounds like low-balling it. 'We take this matter seriously and are committed to resolving it as quickly as possible,' Pete & Gerry's told USA Today in a statement. The unusual heist recalls the PlayStation 5 snatchings that occasionally happened back in 2020, when the launch console was super-rare and hard to find. The internet lit up with tales of roving UK gangs raiding trucks full of PS5s and drivers absconding with undelivered consoles. Now, with prices spiking because of the bird flu outbreak, eggs are the luxury items on everyone's mind. Sure, they're still super-cheap compared to gaming consoles, but the roughly 20 percent spike in prices in recent months hits doubly hard. The pain isn't only felt in our wallets but in our stomachs as well. Luxury purchases feel different than a few unexpected extra bucks on carefully scrutinized grocery bills. I used to eat a dozen eggs at week at least. Eggs on toast. Eggs on noodles. Hard boiled. Soft boiled. Omelets. I was a fiend for these golden delights. No longer. I'm not quite ready to pawn my PS5 for a month's supply of eggs, but I no longer instantly perish the thought. I doubt this mystery thief is a Robin Hood, preparing to doll out free eggs in the woods of Western PA. But I do wonder what you actually do with 100,000 stolen eggs. Make a giant cake? Sell them on eBay? I will be watching the development of this story with great interest, and many pangs of hunger. . For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
