Extra, Extra

Nothing calms down an escaped inmate like Long Island iced teas. [Trib]

Argonne National Laboratory's supercomputer is the third fastest in the world. A new machine at Los Alamos took top honors because it can perform "more than 1,000 trillion calculations per second," none of which happen to be telling Crain's that's called a quadrillion, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's supercomputer came in second. We still love you, "Blue Gene." [Crain's]

Bacon floss! Gross, yet intriguing. Thanks, Jasmine!

Phase two of the CPD's crosswalk sting has nabbed 78 drivers for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. [S-T]

Some University of Chicago professors object to the name of the school's planned Milton Friedman Institute because they say it will "reinforce among the public a perception that the university's faculty lacks intellectual and ideological diversity." [Trib]

"Search for girls who touched mink continues." [Lake County News-Sun]

Don't mail someone 16 pounds of marijuana. [WBBM]