It’s Friday, let’s do this! News you can chew and skip the mindless small talk below.
♦The 2014 host of the prime-time Emmy Awards will be Northwestern University, SNL Alum and of NBC’s late-night show Seth Meyers. The show will be carried live on Aug. 25 starting at 8PM EST
♦12 injured, including several kids, after a school bus crashed into several trees in Anaheim Hills, California Thursday afternoon.
♦ Beyonce Knowles-Carter is TIME Magazine’s Most Influential and she graces the magazine cover.
♦This lime shortage is getting real. Wicker park’s Big Star is set to increase margarita prices due to it. DnaInfo reports. Wall street Journal reports that Chicago area based Beam, Inc is “urging consumers this Cinco de Mayo to “ride out the lime shortage with Hornitos Lime Shot,” its tequila “with the flavor of refreshing lime.”
♦Nokia has completed the sale of it’s handset business, which it once dominated, to Microsoft.
♦ Justin Beiber arriving from Asia was detained by customs at LAX before subsequently being released after some time.
♦ What a scum bag! A Chicago area man charged with knowingly infecting girlfriend with HIV. Chicago Tribune reports Johanson Little of the 4400 block of South State Street, has been ordered held in lieu of $750,000 bail today after being charged with failing to reveal to his girlfriend that he had HIV who later tested positive for the virus. He admitted that he knew of his HIV status at the time that he was having a sexual relationship with the victim but did not want to tell her,”
SPORTS:
Cubs lost to the Arizona Diamonbacks
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