Extra, Extra
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: Possible radiation at Mulberry & Worth St in Manhattan, a barricaded EDP at Prospect Pl & Underhill Ave in Brooklyn and a vehicle pursuit at Olympia & Midland Is on Staten Island.
- Today was the funeral for the 11-year-old girl killed in a car crash on Sunday; her friend's allegedly drunk mom was driving.
- The Daily News wonders if Council Speaker Quinn's reluctance to endorse Bill Thompson for mayor thus far means her days as Speaker are numbered.
- The Post gets a kick of how court papers describe David Letterman as "Client #1".
- Wow, former Senator Al D'Amato, 72 years old, is a father again: He and his 43-year-old wife had a daughter this afternoon.
- After facing a lawsuit from white firefighters claiming discrimination, now a black firefighter has sued the New Haven Fire Department for discrimination.
- A TV critic said he got a Fox News PR piece hyping Glenn Beck's swine flu hysteria segment. The PR people claimed they never sent it—okay, maybe they didn't, but it still came from their marketing department.
- A NJ couple raised $33,000 for the Special Olympics in a competition—and are getting a $100,000 wedding as the prize.
- And, yes, that video of the baby in a stroller being hit by a train in Australia is really scary.
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