Extra, Extra

- The LES is the place for spelling bees. Gothamist will be moving shortly and we'll fit right in.
- Social promotion is removed for seventh graders; however, some parents wore hankerchiefs over their faces to show their voices were being stifled.
- To dream the dream: Hopeful young women try out to be Knicks City Dancers and Nets Dancers. Right now, certain Gothamist staffers are smacking their heads, moaning, "Why weren't we there?"
- The woman whose every bone in her face shattered after kids threw a frozen turkey out a car on a Long Island highway asked the prosecution give one of the pranksters the lightest sentence - a six month jail sentence. She might be the most forgiving person in the world.
- Madonna broke a few ribs, a collarbone, and a hand in a horse riding accident outside her British country home. Even horses don't like her new accent!
- The slow march of the Slurpee may be thwarted by some Upper East Siders who clearly do not want to thank heaven.
- Police have arrested four white men involved in the Brooklyn racial attack, but they aren't sure if it was a racial attack to begin with.