1. The Hevesi probe (remember that?) is still going on-- and it has expanded to include Hevesi's Chief of Staff, who apparently was also abusing the state chauffeur services.
2. City Comptroller Bill Thompson says the Department of Education's graduation rates may be inflated. The state agrees-- they say NYC's graduation rate is 43%, fifteen points lower than the City's estimate.
3. A Bronx electrician took shelter from the rain at an Upper West Side newsstand. While he was there, he bought a lottery ticket worth $20m.
4. The Sopranos are shooting in Park Slope on Tuesday. [Publisher's note: on the block where I grew up!]
5. The Daily News reports on the Black Friday sales ("New Yorkers go bananas for bargains") included an account of a stampede at Toys R' Us. Jen reports: "by the way, my brother's girlfriend went to a Best Buy in Queens at 3AM yesterday and people were getting STABBED on line!"
6. Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an overturned auto on the Verrazzano Bridge, a DOA in the Bronx, and a sinking Barge off 59th Street in the Hudson.

Kentile (again!) by Dalton Rooney.