- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A large crowd at 69 St & 5th Ave in Brooklyn, a fall victim on Amsterdam Ave in Manhattan and a homicide on Van Buren St on Staten Island.
- Cabbies who talk on their cellphones while they drive won't face higher fines for at least the next six months — but the Taxi and Limousine Commission still plans to impose a three-strike policy for repeat offenders.
- The State Senate says they'll fight cuts to education funding.
- Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island) won't back down from his statement that some mosques stand in the way of law enforcement, adding: "It is not politically correct and I don't care."
- Of course: A porn company wants to release the Carrie Prejean sex tape.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor owes the IRS over $100,000 for 2001 and 2002, but her lawyer blames...Bernard Madoff!
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in NJ today, stumping for health care reform.
- Six psychologists and psychiatrists have been forced to resign from Bellevue Hospital Center for falsifying their time sheets.
- EW offers its dream list of Saturday Night Live hosts, including Jane Lynch and Ricky Gervais.




Zsa Zsa looks pretty good for 92. I bet she had some plastic surgery done. Is that her natural hair color?
If she lost as much money as she said she did, then she should be having a pretty good tax write off for the next ten years.