In Other News: Bay Area restaurant bans MAGA hats, receives mixed response; immigrants drove hours for fake, ICE-issued court dates on Thursday

Published 7:21 pm Thursday, January 31, 2019

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Good Samaritan picks up hotel tab for 70 homeless cleared from camp in downtown Chicago

A good Samaritan has offered to spring for hotel rooms for 70 people who were cleared from a homeless camp in downtown Chicago after dozens of propane tanks were confiscated, leaving them without any source of heat. “Isn’t that wonderful?” said Jacqueline Rachev, a spokeswoman for the Salvation Army, which had been checking on the makeshift camp of tents and blankets on Roosevelt Road near the Dan Ryan Expressway. “At least they’re warm and they’re safe.” — Chicago Tribune

Tips included: Hershey says it’s fixed the problem of its Kisses’ missing peaks

Hershey says it has solved the case of the missing tips atop its Kisses candies, after angry holiday bakers complained about imperfect points. “We looked at the entire Kiss manufacturing process, and we made some adjustments to shaping the tips to allow us to have greater consistency,” CEO Michele Buck told CNBC on Thursday. There was an outcry among holiday bakers in December when they discovered the tips of Kisses, which they had planned to use for baking cookies and other confections, were missing. Several took to social media to complain to the company, based in Hershey, Pennsylvania. — CNBC

Immigrants drove hours for fake, ICE-issued court dates on Thursday

Fearing deportation if they didn’t show up, immigrants across the country traveled to ICE-issued court dates on Thursday only to find out those hearing dates were fake. Some traveled for hours and hundreds of miles for nothing, resulting in what one attorney called “mass chaos” at courthouses around the country. Immigration attorneys told CBS News that there was confusion, crowds and long lines at immigration courts around the country on Thursday morning. ICE agents had issued thousands of Notice to Appear documents — essentially a court summons for immigration court — telling immigrants to appear in court or risk permanent removal from the U.S. It wasn’t until hundreds of those people arrived at court Thursday morning that they realized those dates weren’t real. — CBS News

Bay Area restaurant bans MAGA hats, receives mixed response

A restaurant in San Mateo, Calif., has announced it will refuse service to anyone wearing a Make America Great Again hat. Wursthall restaurant’s chef-partner J. Kenji Lopez-Alt mentioned the coming ban in a since-deleted tweet. “It hasn’t happened yet, but if you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served, same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate,” the tweet read. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the tweet had more than 2,100 likes and 200 retweets before it was taken down. — Fox News