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- Illegal home conversions are causing over crowding in public schools in Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights.
- Uber and Spotify have entered a partnership to bring music to your pricey cab rides.
- Not even a commercial shoot will keep Jerry Seinfeld from his meditation ritual.
- A doctor who'd been working in Sierra Leone is now the second person to die of Ebola in the United States.
- Video: Inside NASA's enormous chamber that imitates space on Earth.
- Despite Ben Affleck's best efforts, asteroids hit Earth's atmosphere "all the time."
- Photos: Solange Knowles got married this weekend.
- An upstate 911 dispatcher helped deliver a baby girl over the phone this weekend.
- And finally, brave kitten wages epic battle with his own reflection:

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