THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

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  • They'll be using drones to help patrol today at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. 
  • Tim Tebow started playing with a minor league baseball team and hit a home run in his first at-bat. 
  • The University of Utah has become the first major sports school to give scholarships for competitive video gamers. 
  • A study says that songs are becoming shorter because of people's shortened attention spans. They must have been really short in the sixties. 
  • Now there's an online dating app that matches people by their credit scores. 
  • Taser has changed the name of its company to Axon. 
  • Boeing and JetBlue are investing in a startup that makes battery powered planes. 
  • 450 companies have bid on Donald Trump's proposed Mexican border wall. 
  • A study says gunshot injuries have cost the U.S. $6.6 billion over the past 8 years. 
  • Jeb Bush and Derek Jeter are among the folks showing interest in buying the Florida Marlins baseball club. 
  • Aaron Rogers and Olivia Munn are no longer an item. Good news for me. 
  • A Secret Service agent working to protect VP Mike Pence has been arrested for consorting with a prostitute. 
  • In India, a girl between the ages of 10 and 12 was found living with monkeys. She was unable to speak and not wearing clothes. 
  • Stephen Colbert has opened up a lead over Jimmy Fallon in the late-night TV wars... which has the "Tonight Show" scrambling. 
  • Jenna Jameson has given birth to her third child. 
  • Verne Troyer is heading to rehab for alcohol addiction. 
  • Lisa Kudrow has sold her Park City, Utah, ski condo for $3.6 million. 
  • A Michigan woman was arrested last week, accused of choking a high school girl during a fireworks display at Disneyland after the teenager and her friends wouldn't sit down and blocked her view. 
  • Scientists have created an Artificial Intelligence brain that learns like the human mind. This thing is so smart, it's thrilled that it's not a human. 
  • A new study says that Alabama and Louisiana are the most stressed-out states.

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