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- Diane Passage, the former stripper who had to go back to stripping because her husband was a Ponzi schemer, is going to get a divorce.
- A Shawshank Redemption-style prison break was foiled in England.
- A million contest to encourage businesses in lower Manhattan actually includes $650,000 in consultant fees.
- A once-controversial tower near the Museum of Modern Art is still moving forward.
- Carmelo Anthony may go play in China during a possible NBA lockout.
- Crystal Harris is grossing everyone out with intimate details of having sex (only once) with Hugh Hefner.
- There is a serial butt slasher in Virginia.
- Alma Rangel's cameo in the Nixon papers.
- A pilot was arrested at JFK Airport for being a drug mule.

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