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Kraft Buys Cadbury; Kennedy’s Midtown Damaged in Fire

• Kraft will buy Cadbury for $19 billion. [NYP]

• A fire did an estimated $100,000 of damage to Kennedy’s Midtown on Monday morning. [Universal Hub]

• The state Department of Environmental Protection has cleared the way for Doc’s Long Wharf restaurant to move forward. [Herald]

• Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a ban on commercial fishing of striped bass. [Globe]

• A man shot his wife and killed himself at Westport’s Oriental Pearl on Sunday. [Herald]

• Sam Talbot has separated from his wife and is rumored to be seeing Kelly Bensimon. [NYP]

• Taco Bell founder Glen W. Bell, Jr. died over the weekend at age 86. [NYP]

• In an effort to combat alcoholism, British officials have banned drinking games in pubs and may institute mandatory minimum prices on alcohol. [WSJ]

• Mariah Carey will soon launch her own brand of rose called Angel Champagne. [NYDN]

• Starbucks has raised prices on every drink except drip coffee. [NYP]

• Mario Batali and Tom Colicchio are producing a documentary about hunger in America, co-directed by Colicchio’s wife Lori Silverbush. [Daily Dish/LAT]

• California’s Huntington Meat Packing has recalled 864,000 pounds of ground beef due to E. coli fears. [Reuters]

• Gordon Ramsay will start Tweeting on February 1. [Monsters & Critics]

Kraft Buys Cadbury; Kennedy’s Midtown Damaged in Fire