Extra, Extra

Photograph of today's sunset by sidewalk_story on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A mounted cop fell from horse at 58th St & 12th Ave in Manhattan, a gas leak on 35th Ave in Queens and a serious MVA at E 21st St & Ave O in Brooklyn.
• Tanya Hollander, holistic health counselor and booker for the Emperors Night Club prostitution ring, was sentenced to a year of probation.
• NYC tabloids really want LeBron James to play in New York, reminding him of how much more he'd make and how he's thinks Madison Square Garden is the "greatest basketball arena in the world."
• The littlest opponent to Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards plan is probably Daniel Goldstein's new baby Sita.
• Factoring in the Citibank bailout, the federal government has now spent more than Marshall Plan, Louisiana Purchase, moonshot, S&L bailout, Korean War, New Deal, Iraq war, Vietnam war, and NASA's lifetime budget *combined*!
• Friends of Jeffrey Conroy, the teen accused of a hate crime murder on Long Island, don't think he's capable of such a crime, but a spokesman for the victim's family said he could be "like a Jekyll and Hyde kind of guy."
• If your company charges you $170 to bring your spouse/significant other to the holiday party, is it encouraging infidelity?
• And watch what you buy: Saks Fifth Avenue in Portland accidentally sold a woman a pair of $76,000 earrings for $28,000. When the manager later called her up and asked for more money, she refused, so they're suing her.