- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a slashing on Academy St in Manhattan, shots fired at N Portland Ave and Myrtle Ave in Brooklyn and a water rescue in The Rockaways in Queens.
- A dying Queens man got his wish—a visit from his mother. Walter Vergara's mother traveled from Peru with help from local legislators (she was initially denied a visa because she overstayed during a previous visit).
- The pilot of a World War II-era plane died when his aircraft went down near Mastic Beach this afternoon.
- Kids in privileged suburbs are being taught empathy by their teachers, because apparently they aren't getting those lessons at home.
- A United Nations worker who was kidnapped two months ago is heading back home to NJ. John Solecki was found on a road in Pakistan, hands and feet bound, calling for help.
- Plaxico Burress cursed out a Florida cop and told him what trouble the officer would be in when Plax's good friend the sheriff found that he pulled over the ex-Giant for speeding. The sheriff says that he's never met Burress.
- Fast and Furious, the fourth installment in the F&F film series, made $72.5 million this weekend. The real question is how much The Fast and Bi-Curious would make.
- Security guards at Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady's Costa Rica wedding fired their guns at paparazzi who were taking pictures.
- And with a week left until Easter, one man has put together 140 Peep-related links worth visiting.
