New York Adult Entertainment: Yoga Teachers Near Victory in Licensing Battle
New York City, one of the few places in the country that bans beekeeping, has been edging ever closer to lifting the ban. On Tuesday, the board of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will consider amending the health code to allow residents to keep hives of Apis mellifera, the common, nonaggressive honeybee. [NYT]
Crime & Public Safety
A short-order cook who skipped out on his own trial spent three decades hiding in plain sight, believing the case was closed. But now the cook, David Price, 54, is headed to prison for at least six years after unwittingly surrendering to the authorities. Hoping to snag a city job, he walked into a Manhattan courthouse and asked to see his old file so he could prove the case was resolved. In it was an open bench warrant from 1980 for the rape and robbery of a prostitute.