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50-year-old Michoel Streicher, a singer who calls himself "The Michael Jackson of Jewish music" was sentenced yesterday to a year in jail for swindling a woman out of $36,000 he said he would use to buy a torah.

State budgets are pretty important. So it's up to paid, elected officials to figure this stuff out, right? Not in New York—the state that is still without a budget, and that doesn't seem to have one semi-competent lawmaker.

Get in on the housing boom while you still can! Real estate numbers are in from the first quarter of 2010, and oh boy are they good: 31% of home sales so far this year were foreclosures!

Public libraries in the internet age have become less about books and more about free porn and librarian sex. But one Massachusetts lawmaker is on a mission to stop it, by publicly shaming people caught watching porn on library computers.

Who: The founder of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner's publishing empire now also includes Us Weekly and Men's Journal.

Along with the hurricane, southern Mexico was hit by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake this morning.

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Senator Al Frank (D - MN), as bored as the rest of the country, sketched his colleague Jeff Sessions (R - AL) during the Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings. Click through for a bigger image and side-by-side comparison.

Jin Hua Cui, a 44-year-old Queens woman, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with running a sex slavery ring. Her alleged victims were young Korean women, forced into prostitution at massage parlors on Long Island.

Doctors, who are boring buzz-kills if there ever were such a thing, think that Los Angeles shouldn't let the publicly-owned Coliseum stadium hold "government-encouraged … drug fest[s]" like the Electric Daisy Carnival. What happened to PLUR, man? [LAT]

Tropical Storm Alex has become Hurricane Alex.

This week on The City, things got ugly when Whitney accused Roxy of failing to help her promote her clothing line and being an overall (not to mention constant) disappointment as an assistant.

It is with a heavy heart that I write this lede. Larry King, my boo 4EVER and legendary, suspenders-wearing CNN broadcaster, announced his retirement tonight—and I WANT TO DIE. Inside, video of King's statement and Bill Maher's reaction.

Why does the male Mexican molly fish have an 'extravagant moustache-like structure' on its top lip? German and American scientists may have discovered the answer: Because female fish dig it. For oral sex.

A Colorado woman says she drove her car into a canal because she was startled by a vampire. The vampire... of bad driving! No, actually, a real vampire. She said she crashed, because of a vampire. [KVDR]

Tonight, the crew of The Hills left the sun and beaches of Southern California for the... uh... Sun and beaches of Costa Rica, where Kristin made quick friends with a lip-ringed bartender. Apparently, Brody can't take what he dishes out.

Accused spy Anna Chapman wasn't the only suspected Russian agent on Facebook. A tipster with access to co-defendant Mikhail Semenko's Facebook photos sent us some of his pictures. Want to see an alleged spy in a Bill Clinton costume?

[Blue crabs head toward the city along the main seaside avenue of Cancun, Mexico, disoriented by ongoing public works along the road. I bet they're feeling pretty... wait for it... wait for it... pissed off. Pic via AP]