[UPDATED BELOW] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is no longer in hiding. The Australian was arrested after turning himself in this morning in the UK where he has been under wraps as his site deals with the fallout from the trove of a quarter-million diplomatic cables it's been slowly releasing to the public. Assange is due in court later today and it is currently unclear if he will challenge his extradition to Sweden—where he is wanted for questioning as part of a sex-crimes investigation (one which some find suspicious). [ MORE]  | Finding a cab in NYC can be challenging for all ethnicities. (Flickr user Dan Dickinson) Now that the suspect in Friday night's livery cab driver shooting has been identified as Hispanic (at least from a black and white surveillance video), the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers is... [ MORE ] |  | Doesn't it seem like just yesterday that businesses were moving to Williamsburg after rents in Manhattan got too high? Well, now Williamsburg proprietors are being priced out of the Brooklyn neighborhood; according to the Brooklyn Paper, Mike Al-Humaidi was forced to shut down his Deli Mart on Bedford and... [ MORE ] |  | A group of animal rights activists gather outside the New Jersey Statehouse Friday Dec. 3. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) The second day of New Jersey's controversial six-day bear hunt has begun, leaving behind it a record 264 bears killed in the first day. To curb the growing bear population of... [ MORE ] |  | The GPS is watching (via Jimmy Joe's flickr stream). Does your job have the right to track your whereabouts with GPS without your knowledge? Even if they're tracking you to try and prove that you are lying to them? That's the question at the core of a new lawsuit... [ MORE ] |  | He's not sleeping, he's just hiding from your annoying MetroCard questions! Most of us still call them "token booths," so it's not too surprising that the workers inside can't help much with the newfangled MetroCards. Reporters for the Daily News approached three different token booth sseeking help with a... [ MORE ] |  | For the first time in five years, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has called for a bear hunt to reduce the black bear population and bear complaints. The six-day hunt is being held in seven counties, mostly in the northwest, and aims to reduce the approximate bear population... [ MORE ] |  | Yesterday morning, a group of 15 adults and two children squeezed into the elevator in the F train station on Roosevelt Island. And there they remained for a full hour until the FDNY came to their rescue. One commuter, an administrative assistant at a financial firm named Alexis, passed... [ MORE ] | | |
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