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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - San Jose police insisted that a search of the home of Anna Ayala's in-laws was not connected to the criminal case against Ayala and her claim of finding a finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili. The Tuesday night search was part of a separate probe that began seven weeks before the March 22 incident when Ayala says she bit into the finger, according to Officer Enrique Garcia. He refused to divulge any other details of the earlier investigation. But a relative said a detective asked a family friend during the search, "Do you know...

Anna Ayala has waived extradition from Nevada to California, telling the judge that she is "eager" to return to California to face charges of grand theft. Apparently, she is a hoaxer of long standing. And California is quite serious about bringing charges. Why then this unseemly eagerness? We will offer today a theory that just might blow your mind. Don't go away: this is going to be good. Let's review the story; yes, the whole fowl thing. Ms. Ayala, a native of Las Vegas, stopped for a bite at a Wendy's while traveling in San Jose, California. She ordered a...

Woman in Wendy's Case Waives Extradition By CHRISTINA ALMEIDA, Associated Press Writer LAS VEGAS - The woman who was arrested after claiming she bit into a human finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili waived extradition Tuesday, telling a judge she was eager to return to California to face charges. Anna Ayala, 39, appeared before the same judge who issued a warrant for police to search her home outside Las Vegas on April 6. Records from that raid are sealed. (snip) Ayala, who has maintained her innocence, faces a maximum seven-year sentence if convicted of the larceny charges, and at...

LAS VEGAS - Anna Ayala's attorney said Saturday she is eager to return to San Jose to prove she is innocent of allegations that she planted a human finger in her bowl of Wendy's chili last month. ``She's denying them completely, and I believe she is innocent,'' said San Jose attorney Frederick Ehler, noting that Ayala will waive extradition to face the felony charges authorities have filed against her -- perhaps arriving as early as this week. Ayala has been the focus of intense scrutiny, by police and the media, in the month since the former San Jose resident said...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Fast-food giant Wendy's ended its internal investigation of how a well-manicured finger wound up in a bowl of chili - declaring it found no credible link between the digit and the restaurant chain. San Jose police will continue their investigation, the restaurant said in a brief statement. Ohio-based Wendy's International Inc. maintains the 1 1/2-inch-long finger tip did not get into the chili in its ingredients. All the employees at the San Jose store were found to have all their fingers, and no suppliers reported any hand or finger injuries, the company said. Anna Ayala told...

Wendy's Has Its Hands Full With the Tale of the Finger in the Chili By Kim Curtis/ Associated Press Writer Apr 15, 2005 SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Somewhere out there is a woman, dead or alive, who is missing a well-manicured finger about 1 1/2 inches long. Authorities know where the finger ended up - in a bowl of Wendy's chili - but just who it belongs is a mystery. Anna Ayala's claim that she bit down on the finger in a mouthful of her steamy stew on March 22 initially drew sympathy. But when police and health officials...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Police in California say they're checking out a possible lead in the case involving an allegedly contaminated bowl of Wendy's chili. San Jose police are investigating the case of a woman who lost part of her finger in a leopard attack. The woman, who has several exotic animals, reportedly got the finger back in a bag of ice, after doctors couldn’t re-attach it. She lives in a town about 45 miles north of Las Vegas. A month after that attack, a Las Vegas woman reported biting into a human finger while eating a bowl of Wendy’s...

The woman who claims she bit into a human finger while eating chili at a Wendy's restaurant has a history of filing lawsuits - including a claim against another fast-food restaurant. Anna Ayala, 39, who hired a San Jose, Calif., attorney to represent her in the Wendy's case, has been involved in at least half a dozen legal battles in the San Francisco Bay area, according to court records. She brought a suit against an ex-boss in 1998 for sexual harassment and sued an auto dealership in 2000, alleging the wheel fell off her car. That suit was dismissed after...

A bizarre twist to the story of a finger found in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's. It happened a couple of weeks ago in San Jose. Now we hear that investigators got a search warrant for the Las Vegas home of the woman who found the finger. ABC7's Leslie Brinkley reports that this new twist may have something to do with the woman's dead aunt. San Jose police confirmed today that they did go to Las Vegas and working with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, served a search warrant yesterday on a home on Coral Berry Street....

The mystery of the finger found in a bowl of chili at a San Jose Wendy's last month deepened Thursday with revelations that police have searched the Las Vegas home of the woman who made the revolting find. A tearful Anna Ayala, 39, angrily denied planting the finger in a telephone interview with The Chronicle. She accused San Jose and Las Vegas officers of bursting into her home with guns drawn on her and her family Wednesday afternoon. "They put guns to us and handcuffed us and threw us to the ground in front of all my neighbors,'' Ayala said...

A woman who bit down on a partial finger served in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant in California said she was disgusted by the experience while her attorney has filed a claim with the franchise owner. Anna Ayala, 39, of Las Vegas, was dining at the Wendy's in San Jose, Calif., on March 22 when officials said she scooped up the inch-and-a-half long fingertip in a mouthful of chili. "Just knowing that there was a human remain in my mouth ... it is disgusting. It is tearing me apart inside," Ayala told ABC's "Good Morning America" on...

MIDI - WINDY If late at night your hunger is burning...there is a place that you ought to go It has the food for which you are yearning...new finger food at Wendy's Even Ta-Ray-za Heinz says she loves it...she is a frequent guest, so they say If food's delayed, she tells them to shove it...new finger food at Wendy's Do they still have chili fries...can you get them supersized...clogged arteries, no surpise They'll make you croak...it is no joke...they'll make you croak...it is no joke Sometimes a new ingredient shows up...they're working hard to try something new Their latest...

A diner bit into a segment of human finger while digging into a bowl of chili at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant Tuesday night, Santa Clara County health officials said today. The woman, who asked officials not to name or even describe her, spit out the well-cooked digit and reportedly warned other diners to stop eating. She then became sick to her stomach. Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Martin Fenstersheib said today the woman was horrified "due to the unpleasant sensation of having this (object) in her mouth." But he said the finger had been cooked at a high...

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Texas Grocer to Pay $2.85 Million to Six Made Ill by Tainted Chili The Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A Fort Worth discount grocer has agreed to pay $2.85 million to settle a lawsuit filed by six people who were hospitalized for botulism after eating the store's tainted chili. The plaintiffs were among eight people who ate the chili at a church concert in 2001 and became sick enough to be hospitalized. A lawsuit against the Fort Worth-based chili distributor, Ben E. Keith, is pending. Town Talk Foods, meanwhile, is suing Keith and the chili manufacturer, First Original...

July 31, 2001, By Nedra Pickler, AP EXCERPT Kerry's caravan of 10 buses and at least 11 other support vehicles rolled through Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania Friday. He didn't stop in safely Democratic Connecticut, but pulled over at Wendy's, a fast food restaurant, in New York's GOP-leaning Hudson Valley for an anniversary tradition. John and Elizabeth Edwards ate at a Wendy's on their wedding night 27 years ago when they were recent law school grads too broke for a fancy meal. Although they have become millionaires several times over, they say they observe the tradition each year. "I...

MIDI - SEND IN THE CLOWNS I start to speak...but then I shriek I hear them shout "Four more years!"...and so I freak They sent their goons We're the elite...bow when you greet When I'm first lady my life will be complete They sent their goons...GOP goons They have no right...to be in sight I have big money and I will prevail in this fight I am prepared to say "Shove it" all day and all night They sent their goons...GOP goons Don't mess with me...in a Wendy's I'l throw at you this food that they call "Chili" They...

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I happen to live in the once great city of Nashua, NH (It was great before all the 'Mass-holes' moved in) and tonight we had a Kerry 'Chili feed' at the local fire station.I figured I'd poke my balding noggin' in just to see what was going on,and perhaps snag a free bowl of chili.I was nervous parking my Beetle out front since it bears a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker. But I didn't need to worry much, as there weren't more than perhaps 50 or 60 people there. I did get a glimpse of His Royal Highness A.K.A. "The King of...

Chili chefs everywhere are reeling at the news -- who could have imagined a chili crook among chili cooks?It started as a prank, said Don Eastep, an Illinois retiree. When his brother Larry couldn't make the International Frank X. Tolbert-Wick Fowler Memorial Championship Chili Cook-Off in Terlingua, Texas, Eastep, 64, went under his brother's name. But he had no chili. So on cook-off day, he scooped up spoonfuls of chili from some of the 80 or so contestants' pots and entered the mishmash in his brother's cup.He figured he had no chance, but the judges loved it. And when he...