- From the Gothamist Newsmap: An animal rescue at University Ave & W 197th St in the Bronx, a scaffolding incident at 5th Ave & W 43 St in Manhattan and a hazmat near Fort Hamilton Pway & 56 St in Brooklyn.
- A Newark hospital was cited for keeping a 99-year-old stroke victim waiting for 6 hours.
- Finally: The Philippines will pay back taxes owed on a Fifth Avenue building from 1974 to 1996. The city had sued the country for the $9 million.
- A boy was busted for posing as a girl while taking the Regents exam upstate.
- Time laid off 600 people but managed to send four reporters to Davos, including one who files ski reports.
- One business who misses the Brooklyn Real World cast is a bagel shop: "Three or four days a week, a member of the cast or crew would come into the deli, place around a $150 lunch order and leave."
- Just because Robert Rubin has retired CitiGroup doesn't mean he can't have an office at the Citi offices, right?
- This Super Bowl, you'll see a Cash4Gold ad because NBC wants to, uh, maximize its ad revenue.
- And that California lady who had octuplets from fertility treatments? She already has six other kids; her mom says her daughter never expected to have eight.





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