Northeast
Next hot thing in hot wings, 'trashed' or 'dirty,' breaks the rules of America's favorite bar food
America’s hottest hot-wing trend is garbage.
Bar-food aficionados can’t wait to take it out or enjoy it at the bar with a few cold beers.
Trash wings are a popular style of chicken wing served at pubs and restaurants in and around St. Louis, Missouri. The same style of fried chicken is called dirt wings in Connecticut.
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Trash or dirt wings are fried, doused in hot sauce — then fried again. The process creates delectable little poultry limbs with skin so crispy that it snaps when you bite into it. Yet the meat remains juicy inside.
They’ve grown into casual culinary traditions in both parts of the country over the past three decades.
Zach Jalbert, a customer at Fenton Bar and Grill in Fenton, Missouri, called its locally famous trash wings “beautiful.” (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
“I like to then re-dip the wings in whatever sauce is available,” Zach Jalbert, a customer at Fenton Bar and Grill in Fenton, Missouri, told Fox News Digital.
“Look at that! It’s beautiful. Wow!” Jalbert added, holding up a wing in front of his eyes before crunching into it.
“Look at that! It’s beautiful. Wow!” — Zach Jalbert, trash wing enthusiast
Trash or dirt wings appear poised to break out as a national phenomenon in 2024 — while disrupting 60 years of American culinary tradition established when Buffalo wings were first fried in Buffalo, New York in 1964.
“I love it when people step outside the box,” America’s “Wing King” and Buffalo native Drew Cerza, founder of the National Buffalo Wing Festival, told Fox News Digital.
Dirt wings are a Connecticut casual-dining tradition that originated in the 1990s at J. Timothy’s Taverne in Plainville. The wings are fried, sauced, refrigerated, then fried and sauced a second time when they’re ordered. (Courtesy J. Timothy’s Taverne)
“That’s how cool new things are created.”
Trash wings earned their name because cooking the saucy once-fried wings again “trashes the oil.”
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J. Timothy’s Taverne in Plainville, Connecticut, is the birthplace of dirt wings.
The bar-food favorite boasts a more personal origin story that “came about just by dumb luck,” said beverage director Rino Ouellet.
“Wing King” Drew Cerza proclaims Miki Sudo the victor over Joey Chestnut at the 2022 National Buffalo Wing Festival. Sudo ate 233 chicken wings in 12 minutes, to 224 for Chestnut. (Courtesy Drew Cerza)
J. Timothy’s fielded a beer-league softball team when it opened nearly 30 years ago.
“We were all in our 20s. The oldest guy on the team, our pitcher, was in his 40s. We called him Dirt,” said Ouellet.
The pitcher was, to the rest of the players, older than dirt.
“The trashed wing is a phenomenal culinary delight and is now synonymous with St. Louis.” — Pat Imig, Imig Communications
One day, the oft-told tale goes, Dirt ordered wings at the bar and stepped out to have a cigarette.
He returned to the bar and asked for his now-cold wings to be reheated.
They were an instant sensation.
Trash wings at Fenton Bar and Grill in Fenton, Missouri. Double-fried trash wings are a culinary tradition in and around St. Louis. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
“Pretty soon the entire softball team was coming in asking for Dirt’s wings,” said Oullet.
Dirt wings are now a bar-food favorite at pubs and sports bars across Connecticut.
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Trash wings also appeared in St. Louis about 30 years ago. The simultaneous appearance in New England and along the Mississippi River of the similar wings appears to be complete coincidence.
Fenton’s touts itself as the “home of the trashed wing.”
But St. Louis magazine reports they were invented elsewhere.
Fenton Bar and Grill in Fenton, Missouri, outside St. Louis, is a popular destination for trash wings. A local culinary tradition, trash wings are fried, sauced and then fried again, making for a crispy wing that’s moist inside. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
“My father started doing trashed wings 30 years ago at one of his restaurants, Frankie G‘s Grill and Bar in Oakville,” Billy Gianino Jr., of Billy G’s in Kirkwood, told the outlet in 2022.
The story claims that Fenton’s general manager Chuck Nash “semi-corroborated Gianino’s story.”
“The trashed wing is a phenomenal culinary delight and is now synonymous with St. Louis casual cuisine,” Pat Imig of Imig Communications, a local food insider and chicken-wing aficionado, told Fox News Digital.
Trash wings served at Fenton Bar and Grill in Fenton, Missouri; and Fenton manager Kelly Brannam. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
After achieving local stardom in Connecticut and Missouri, dirt and trash wings have recently appeared on menus in Chicago, New York City — and even as far away as London.
A similar twice-cooked wing is found in Buffalo, New York — except these are finished on a grill after being fried and sauced, said Cerza.
Double-fried wings “break the cardinal rule of wings here in Buffalo,” claims the keeper of the city’s storied wing-tradition.
But, he added, “there are no rules when you’re creating new rules.”
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New Jersey
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The risks and costs of being a data broker in the United States just went up — again. On 30 June 2026, Gov. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., signed A 5328 into law, making New Jersey the seventh state to enact a data broker law, and the second this year, following Connecticut. The bill was introduced and signed over the course of a few days, as New Jersey’s Legislature sprinted toward an end-of-fiscal-year budget deadline.
This is not a simple copy-paste of any other state. The most notable divergence is its breadth. It creates requirements not only for data brokers, but also for data collectors, entities that have a direct relationship with individuals but sell their personal data to data brokers.
Its greatest impact comes from the creation of a tiered — and costly — structure for annual registration fees, requiring the largest data brokers and data collectors to pay a USD1.5 million annual registration fee. Although the minimum fee, payable for selling the personal data of any number of New Jersey consumers, is not the highest in the country, the second tier is higher than any other state, and kicks in at 100,000 consumers. Data brokers and data collectors also face significant fines for failing to register or update their registration information.
Further, the law prohibits the sale of sensitive data both through the data broker provisions and by amending New Jersey’s consumer data privacy law. Violations of that prohibition carry a severe USD50,000-per-record fine.
The law takes effect immediately, except for the requirement that the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs create a registry, which takes effect 270 days after enactment, on 27 March 2027.
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Pennsylvania
Why are flags at half-staff today? Why they’ll stay lowered in PA
Here’s why flags are flown at half-staff or half-mast
Flags in the U.S. are typically flown at half-mast or half-staff after certain events or holidays.
Flags are flying at half-staff across Pennsylvania today after Gov. Josh Shapiro ordered them lowered statewide to honor Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira, who died in the line of duty in Schuylkill County.
Shapiro ordered flags fly half-staff at Pennsylvania facilities, public buildings and grounds — the United States flag and Pennsylvania flag — to honor Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira, who died in the line of duty in Schuylkill County.
Pahira died after being struck by a tractor-trailer while conducting a commercial vehicle inspection along Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County, authorities said. A Massachusetts truck driver has since been charged in the crash, and flags will remain at half-staff until the date of Pahira’s interment, which has not yet been announced.
Why are flags at half-staff today in Pennsylvania?
Gov. Josh Shapiro ordered flags across Pennsylvania to fly at half-staff in honor of Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira, who died in the line of duty July 1. The order applies to Commonwealth facilities, public buildings and grounds statewide and remains in effect until his interment.
What’s the difference between half-staff and half-mast?
The difference between a flag flying at half-staff and half-mast depends on where the flag is flown. In the United States, flags on land are lowered on staffs, while half-mast traditionally refers to flags flown from ships and at naval stations ashore.
Who was Trooper Michael Pahira?
Pahira was a Schuylkill County native and nearly 20-year veteran of the Pennsylvania State Police, authorities said. He enlisted in January 2007 and was assigned to Troop L in Frackville as a Motor Carrier Inspector. He was 44 years old and became the 106th member of the Pennsylvania State Police to die in the line of duty.
What happened to Trooper Michael Pahira?
State police said Pahira was conducting a commercial vehicle inspection along Interstate 81 southbound in Schuylkill County when a second tractor-trailer left the roadway and struck his marked patrol vehicle and the truck he was inspecting before hitting him. Both commercial vehicles caught fire after the crash. Pahira was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities said a Massachusetts truck driver has since been charged with homicide by vehicle in connection with the crash.
How long will flags be lowered?
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro ordered US and Pennsylvania flags fly half-staff today and through the date of interment, or the burial or entombment of Pahira following his funeral.
Lori Comstock is a New Jersey-based reporter covering trending news with USA TODAY Network’s Mid-Atlantic Connect Team. She covers news in the Northeast, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Reach her at LComstock@usatodayco.com.
Rhode Island
Exclusive | Not everyoneâs happy about Taylor Swiftâs MSG wedding, as Rhode Island residents are left at altarÂ
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Reports previously speculated that Swift and her fiance were going to tie the knot on June 13 at the posh Ocean House hotel in tony Watch Hill, the Rhode Island, where Swift famously owns a home.
The “Shake It Off” singer even allegedly cut a major check to another bride-to-be who’d booked her wedding at the venue. But it was revealed that the pop star and the NFL star changed the location to accommodate more people… and are now getting hitched at the much less intimate Madison Square Garden.
You’d think that residents of Watch Hill would be relieved to avoid the attendant media circus and other headaches that would descend on the intimate enclave. But it turns out they’re bummed the nups won’t be in their proverbial backyard. In fact, more than one Watch Hill regular told us on Wednesday that they were disappointed Swift had changed venues.
The wedding would’ve also been a boon to the local economy, they said.
“Taylor has done a very good job of endearing herself here, and not being a jerk,” bluntly summed up a longtime Watch Hill habitué.
An insider added, “Taylor is a very good neighbor, and a very good member of the community. [She and her family] shop locally and go out of their way not to create problems — she has her own home with her own security. She’s really truly not an inconvenience to anyone.”
“In terms of the wedding, from a financial point of view, even the town next door, Westerly, they were going to get a little economic boom. Or at least a bump!” a source said.
As for the supposed previous wedding venue, “The local hotel, Ocean House, would make an enormous amount of money from the wedding,” said a source.
Then again, they added, “A regular room with the taxes goes right up against $2K a night. Thatâs like the regular room. Bottles of water are $18.”
Page Six has reported that Swift’s wedding will last 10 hours and include 1,000 guests!
On the wedding day, doors open for guests at 3:30 p.m., with cocktails beginning at 4 p.m. on the sixth-floor concourse at MSG. The ceremony will then start at 5:30 p.m. on the arena floor.
The night before, there will be a more intimate rehearsal dinner for just 100 guests at the arenaâs Infosys Theater on Thursday.
Some Watch Hill types were left wondering how their town, which one inhabitant described as being “two city blocks,” could have handled that influx.
“The real locals were just a little concerned about just having access to their lives… They thought the whole place was going to be shut, including the streets, and how would they get in and out, etc.”
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