The city was so hellbent on proving that an NYPD cop didn't die of a 9/11-related illness that morgue workers were dispatched to a funeral home to take away the body while his grieving family was holding memorial services. [NYP]
Tilikum, the killer whale that drowned a trainer last year and has been involved in two other human deaths, is returning to show business at Sea World. [OrlandoSentinel]
Bill Murray has been tapped to play Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [NewYork]
Enrique Iglesias has pulled out of Britney Spears' tour. His replacement: Jersey Shore's Pauly D. [Gatecrasher]
A couple that corresponded anonymously online for several months in Britain finally met face-to-face—and discovered shortly thereafter that they were siblings. [AOL]
New Yorker Ho Vasko says she went on a Chinatown pickpocketing spree to amass money to give to the poor. But prosecutors have a different explanation: She's a thief who hates Chinese people. [NYDN]