Extra, Extra

- Junior Gotti gets a mistrial! What is going on with the criminal justice system?
- The NY Times is laying off 500 more people (160 from the New England operations); hey, isn't Times Select supposed to pay for some of that?
- Some animal victims of Hurricane Katrina came to New York to hopefully find themselves suddenly adopted by people with too small apartment but way big hearts; see more here at Animal Haven Shelter
- The trial of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing victims versus the Port Authority begins
- Rita is a hurricane and the country waits and watches
- Poor NY1's website is having technical issues while they migrate to new servers... but on the upside, it must mean their primary coverage was record breaking in terms of traffic
- The strange murder case of a Staten Island girl might have the killer: Her half brother
- And our guilty pleasure, America's Next Top Model premieres tomorrow, but tonight there's a look at where contestants from the last season are now