- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on E 42nd St in Manhattan, a home invasion on Clifton Ave in Staten Island and a fall victim on Katonah Ave and E 236th St in the Bronx.
- A former Saks Fifth Avenue jewelry saleswoman was convicted of grand larceny in State Superme Court for a scheme that cost the store $1.4 million.
- Three Somerset County young men were arrested for stealing firearms from a Bridgewater home by using hot dogs to distract the resident's pet. Surveillance video from a local supermarket led cops to the trio.
- President Obama rescinded the Bush administration’s limits on federal funding for stem cell research and chided his predecessor for putting politics ahead of science.
- Most people putting up street fliers are looking for lost pets or apartments. This poor guy is in search of a kidney. Any B or O blood types in the house?
- The NY State Senate's Democratic majority intends to have a budget resolution by the end of the week, but apparently it doesn't even have a finance secretary?
- Poly Prep's production of The Producers will be the most-expensive community theater production ever in Brooklyn.
- The Blender Theater at Gramercy is going back to plain ol' unsponsored Gramercy Theater—not that anyone ever used the Blender part anyway.
- A donation from George Steinbrenner was used to help fund Tonya Harding's 1994 hired clubbing of Nancy Kerrigan.
- Mary Kate talks NYC: "I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A...It's freezing in New York right now. In L.A., it's sunny. But I would choose freezing over being followed."
- And how nice of the sun was it to stay out of our way today as it joined the rest of us in recognition of National Napping Day.
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