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  • If you return a book late to the Midtown Carnegie Branch Library in Springfield, Mo., the late fines cannot exceed $5. Whoever returned a book nearly four decades too late left $6, just to be safe.
  • In Merrimack, a warrant has been issued for the weather prognosticating groundhog. Police say that Phil predicted winter would last 6 more weeks, but didn't mention anything about all the snow.
  • Billionaire hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb owns a 6.5 percent stake in the company. In the last 13 years, Sony's stock value has plummeted nearly 85 percent — struggling against electronic rivals like Apple and Samsung.
  • China Unicom's tailor has set up a sewing machine, ready to alter concerned customers' pants so that the larger version of the phone will fit in their pockets.
  • The satirists at The Onion had a field day with his vigor. In fact, Mayor Bill de Blasio even read from the article for the City Hall press corps.
  • JPMorgan Chase has agreed with the U.S. government to settle criminal charges that it failed to report suspicious activity in Bernard Madoff's accounts. The settlement comes to $2.6 billion, but a representative for Madoff's victims says the amount is too small. Madoff bilked investors out of many billions of dollars while JP Morgan Chase was his primary bank.
  • Jump little mouse! Jump! Will he be able to carry that cracker away? It's a mice ... oops nice ... story of determination.
  • The city council in White Settlement voted to boot Browser. The cat has lived in the library for 6 years. It was evicted out of fairness after a city employee wasn't allowed to bring a puppy to work.
  • Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt. Stephen Thompson from our Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast says be sensitive. They have 6 children and this is going to affect their lives going forward.
  • Food writer Mark Bittman says long before Pop Tarts, Americans ate simple food that was grown closer to home. He says we need to get back to that time by eating locally, seasonally, and sustainably.
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