Extra, Extra

Photo Taken on Bedford Ave in Williamsburg by Susan Groppi on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: a serious assault in the park behind Gracie Mansion, a person under a train at the 137th Street 1 station and a mobilization at the 72nd Street and Broadway station, all in Manhattan.
  
• Police frisked more than 500,000 New Yorkers in 2008.
  
• A Staten Island landlord decided that a New Year's Eve party had gone on long enough when he busted into a tenant's home and fired off a shotgun at 1 a.m.
  
• A Long Island man was arrested after shooting his hunting partner in the arm while aiming for a duck in the sky.
  
• Burglaries are up 17% in Newark since the city began enforcing a ban on barbed wire.
  
• Laura Garza's family held a vigil outside of Marquee, the nightclub she was last seen to commemorate the one-month anniversary of her disappearance. A supporter of her rescue search said of Michael Mele's lawyers, "(They) should be thrown out of America."
  
• Mayor Bloomberg is trying to make himself more appealing to Hispanic voters with bilingual press conferences.
  
• Marley and Me remained on top of the box office with each of the Christmas weekend top five films keeping the same slots for the second week in a row.
  
• And a Danbury, Connecticut man won a $10 million state lotto jackpot on the same day he died.