• A huge brawl at Mantra nightclub last night led to five arrests. [UH]
• A former cook at a Northampton restaurant has been sentenced to 10-15 years in jail for beating a coworker while attempting to rob the restaurant. [Boston]
• Gordon Ramsay believes 2010 will be a more solvent year for him. [WSJ]
• An anonymous bidder bought Charles Dickens’s ivory-and-gold toothpick at auction yesterday for $9,150. [Daily Mail]
• One of the first men to portray Ronald McDonald, Michael Polakovs, has died. [Daily Telegraph via Awl]
• McDonald’s also plans to offer free Wi-Fi in 11,000 locations. [WSJ]
• The FTC’s consumer-protection bureau wants to limit unhealthy food advertising aimed at children. [Dow Jones]
