- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a person under the train at Lexington Ave and 125th St, a stabbing at 86th St in Brooklyn and a jumper up at the George Washington Bridge.
- Three more schools—two public, one Catholic; all in Queens— are closing due to swine flu concerns.
- 1-800-Mattress founder Napoleon Barnagan said of his son, who killed his mother (and Barnagan's estranged wife), "The defense [is] his mental condition that he has been through for the last 19 years. He is a good human being."
- A toddler in the Bronx fell thirty-feet out an apartment window onto concrete and yet somehow escaped with only cuts and bruises. The apartment did not have the required bars on its windows.
- President Obama spoke at Notre Dame's commencement and commented on the heated abortion debate, "I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away...Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature."
- Boomer was just being Boomer again. David Wells suggested today that players who have been caught using steroids get a lifetime ban, that A-Rod and The Rocket have no place in the Hall of Fame and even wondered if some steroid-driven homers hit off him should be taken off his record.
- And Pittsburgh Steelers' Super Bowl MVP James Harrison explained why he would not be accompanying the team on their White House visit. He said, "This is how I feel—if you want to see the Pittsburgh Steelers, invite us when we don't win the Super Bowl. As far as I'm concerned, (Obama) would've invited Arizona if they had won."
