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He’s made his list, he’s checked it twice and now we are going to find out who has been naughty and not nice. Former Senator George Mitchell's report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball comes out at 2pm today. And besides providing us with the most complete look at the use of performance-enhancing drugs to date, the Mitchell Report will also name names. While it is just speculation at this point,...

State and federal agencies may have agreed to lease over a third of the space in Freedom Tower, but it doesn't mean people actually want to work there. The NY Times spoke to prospective employees from agencies who have mixed feelings about going. While some think it would be an honor, one state Department of Transportation employee, Alicia Ferrer who escaped from the World Trade Center on September 11, said:

“If my life depended on it, I couldn’t go there. It would be beyond imaginable to put someone back there. If you had to go back there every day where you know their souls and spirits have to be, I don’t know. I couldn’t do it every single day.”

This comes after Port Authority chairman Anthony Coscia told the Bergen Record that he wouldn't make Port Authority employees work at Freedom Tower: "Twice these people were the subject of that attack, and I am not going to ask them to move into that building. I'll resign, but I won't ask them to move into that building." Well, that's certainly honest. The Port Authority says Coscia actually made those remarks six months ago and that Coscia's "never questioned the safety of Freedom Tower and believes that it is tremendously safe and secure." Interesting - six months ago is before WTC developer Larry Silverstein agreed to Port Authority's terms and conditions about building the Freedom Tower. And the Port Authority is supposed to lease Tower 4 (the Maki tower) in the master plan.

Yesterday, police arrested a man suspected of killing 18 year old NJ resident, Jennifer Moore. Moore had been missing since Tuesday morning, but calls still were being made from her cellphone. Police questioned those being called and were led to Draymond Coleman, who was at an SRO in upper Manhattan. After questioning Coleman, the police found Moore's body in a dumpster in West New York, NJ, and the crime scene in a Weehawken, NJ motel nearby - the Park Avenue Hotel, which the Daily News describes as squalid. A tape from the motel showed Coleman and Moore entering the motel, and police say Coleman beat and strangled Moore, stuffed Moore's body into a duffel bag for disposal. It seems that Coleman also tried to remove his DNA evidence from her, by clipping her nails and swabbing her body with alcohol. Police believe Moore put up a fight; the Bergen Record writes, "The scene inside the room was so gruesome, [a detective] said, that he passed on viewing the body." Coleman will be extradited to NJ. His prior record includes a drug selling offense.