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Shooting Wounds Three Outside of Pan American; Cali Grocery Stores Will Stop Accepting Checks

• Three men were wounded in a drive-by shooting outside of Echo Park’s Pan American restaurant yesterday. [CBS2]

• Lead by Fresh & Easy and Whole Foods, California grocery stores are increasingly phasing out accepting checks for payment. [L.A. Times]

• Local authorities are searching for a woman gone missing after her release from a sheriff’s station following her inability to a pay a bill at Geoffrey’s restaurant in Malibu. [Contra Costa Times]

• Caesar’s, the Tijuana restaurant that popularized the Caesar salad, has closed. [AP]

• The National Parks Service has applied for a permit to serve beer, wine, and liquor at private events at the Statue of Liberty. [NYP]

• The winner of this year’s World Burrito Eating Championship downed 33.5 beef burritos in ten minutes. [NYDN]

• Dannon will reimburse consumers for up to $100 in Activia or DanActive yogurts after losing a case charging that the yogurts boost immunity claims are unsubstantiated. [NYP]

Shooting Wounds Three Outside of Pan American; Cali Grocery Stores Will Stop