Actor Roy Scheider died yesterday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, after battling multiple myeloma for several years and suffering complications from a staph infection. He was 75 and had been living in Sag Harbor, New York (after moving out his house in Sagaponack that Billy Joel purchased). more ›

Two cops were injured in a car accident on the Upper East Side yesterday. Accidents do happen, but the Post's first sentence reads, "Two women cops were hospitalized yesterday after an early morning fender-bender..." Ah, this is one for Ask Gothamist: Why are male cops just cops, but lady cops "women cops"? In honor of this, we'd like to salute the female cops out there, as well as television's salute to gender-barrier-breaking shows, like Police Woman, Hill Street Blues, and, currently, Third Watch. more ›

What would Lynne Truss say? more ›