From the Gothamist Newsmap: a grenade found on Longfellow Ave in the Bronx, a child missing at Brightwater Ct in Brooklyn and a fence collapse across from Gate 4 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
Court papers reveal that Madoff victims have accused JPMorgan Chase of aiding his crime by maintaining his checking accounts and trading with his brokerage firm long after the bank itself realized that its prized customer was running a Ponzi scheme.
A body of a three-year-old New Jersey girl was pulled from the Passaic River this morning, hours after she was snatched by her uncle who told relatives: "watch the 6 o'clock news tonight."
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said he has no plans to shut down the site's "erotic services" section.
Rocker Wayne Coyne says that Governor Brad Henry was "very cool" to offer an executive order to make the Flaming Lips song "Do You Realize??" Oklahoma's official rock song, despite objections from Republican legislators.
Hey Oakies, do you realize that everyone you know someday will die? Well now you do, because it's your state song.
They know they belong to the land.
And the land they belong to is grand.
And when they say
Yeeow! Aye-yip-aye-yo-ee-ay!
They're only sayin'.....