- From the Gothamist Newsmap: An armed robbery on Mott St in Manhattan, a pedestrian struck at 94th Ave At Lefferts Blvd in Queens, and a perp search at Menahan St & Bushwick Ave in Brooklyn.
- The police are asking for the public's help in finding a Brooklyn amateur boxer who killed his brother last year.
- A publishing house paid Laura Bush $1.6 million for her memoirs, which is a fifth of what Hillary Clinton got. Guess they think everyone already read American Wife!
- The artists who created the murals at the West 86th Street 1 train stop remember working on the project 20 years ago.
- Real estate appraiser Jonathan Miller instant messages with Curbed to discuss the declining market—and football.
- Four men who stole $1.27 million in jewelry were sentenced to prison by a federal judge; they were found when one left his DNA/blood at a smash-and-grab crime scene in NJ.
- A German businessman—the world's 94th richest man, according to Forbes—killed himself, apparently because of "The desperate situation of his companies caused by the financial crisis, the uncertainties of the last few weeks and his powerlessness to act."
- A deer jumped through a NJ classroom's window yesterday. The school cancelled outdoor recess for the rest of the day.
- And in Ohio, a 4-year-old used a shotgun to shoot his baby-sitter. The baby sitter, who does not have life-threatening injuries, apparently raised the child's ire by accidentally stepping on his foot.





GREAT DEPRESSION II MESSAGE
Spend, spend for all you're worth--
Save the economy of the earth.
Save, save, that's the best bet--
Pennies saved reduce the debt.
If the right hand smacks the left,
Tie both down and and jump in the cleft.