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CHICAGO NEWS
• Chicago’s winter overnight parking ban went into effect this morning. Violators may get slammed with a $150 (minimum) towing fee, $60 ticket and a daily storage fee of $20. [DNA INFO]
NATIONAL NEWS
• Girl Scout cookies will be sold online through a national platform called Digital Cookie; This breaks the organization’s ban on e-sales. The organization is expected to launch its online sales on Dec. 12. The traditional cookie selling season begins in January. [CNN]
WORLD NEWS
• Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have clashed with police as they forcefully cleared tents, arrested 40, used pepper spray and water hoses on Lung Wo Road in the Admiralty district. The protesters want the people of Hong Kong to be allowed to choose their leaders in the 2017 elections without intervention from Beijing. [BBC]
SPORTS
• Ohio State football player Kosta Karageorge, who disappeared Wednesday, was found dead in a dumpster near his apartment on Sunday of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. If Karageorge’s death had anything to do with his history of concussions, it would reflect a growing body of research suggesting links among concussions, student athletics and suicide. [WASHINGTON POST]
BUSINESS
• Retailers struggled to entice shoppers to Black Friday shopping as sales tumbled an estimated 11 percent over the weekend from a year earlier. Consumer spending fell to $50.9 billion over the past four days, down from $57.4 billion in 2013, according to the NRF. [BLOOMBERG]
CELEBRITIES
• Scarlett Johansson married French journalist Romain Dauriac in a secret ceremony just after the birth of their daughter, Rose reports Page six. They kept the wedding a big secret because they both wanted privacy. [PAGE SIX]
•Angelina Jolie, who was returning home from a screening of her film Unbroken at the Writers’ Guild Theater. The actress was involved in a crash as the chauffeured black SUV slipped on the wet road, slid into the curb with extreme force, popping two tires. No one was injured. [X17]
FASHION
•Victoria Beckham, in support of World Aids Day 2014, has created a limited edition T-shirt which will be sold at the Victoria Beckham Dover Street Store in London as well as online at victoriabeckham.com. [TELEGRAPH]
• The Victoria’s Secret annual runway extravaganza will take place tomorrow at London’s Earl’s Court. [WWD]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• DAVID & VICTORIA BECKHAM
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