• Magdy Naiem Tawadros, that health inspector creep caught on camera groping a Pomona bakery owner, was charged with sexual battery and could face a six-month sentence and $2,000 fine. [L.A. Weekly]
• Mike Tyson is now a vegan. [Daily Mail]
• Bastide owner Joe Pytka sold his Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Taggart House in Los Feliz for $2,335,000. [L.A. Times]
• Paris Hilton has sworn off fast-food saying,”“No more McDonalds, In-N-Out done.” [Music Rooms]
• John Kerry introduced a Senate bill that would lower the excise tax for small brewers. [Boston Globe]
• American Idol-frontrunner Crystal Bwersox used to perform regularly at an Ohio pizza parlor. [MTV News]
• Sean Penn pleaded no contest to a vandalism charge after kicking a photographer outside of Brentwood Country Mart. [Google/AP]
• The Alabama location of Pinches Tacos has been revealed. [Birmingham Biz Journals]
• A Texas lawyer appeared in court to call Dole’s claims “bunk” that a lawsuit against the fruit company was a fraudulent conspiracy. [Google news/AP]
• Walmart will donate 1.1 billion pounds of food to food banks nationwide. [USA Today]
• Subway sent cease and desist letters to more than a dozen small stores nationwide, ordering them to stop using the term “footlong.” [NYDN]
• Gulf Coast fishers and hoteliers fear that the effects of the oil spill could devastate their industries. [USA Today]