Bite Size News, August 17: A Tear in My Beer Edition

• In response to last year's excessive tailgating (including two alcohol-related deaths), hundreds sobered up with cops instead of seeing Kenny Chesney at the New England Country Music Festival. [Boston Globe]
• Southwest Airlines has landed at Logan. [Dallas Morning News]
• A team from Peabody is heading to the Little League World Series tournament. [Daily News of Newburyport]
• Traces of cocaine can be found on most of the currency in the area. [Scientific American]
• The new ambassador to Italy is a Brookline resident and happens to be one of John Kerry's "Skull & Bones" college buddies. [Boston Herald]
• If Aerosmith still had any "rock 'n roll" cred, they would've canceled their tour due to a drug overdose. [Reuters]
• The parents of a dying cancer patient's are being denied entry into the U.S. over fears they may overstay their alloted time. [Boston Channel]

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