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[1/1/08 Update: The Cincinnati Post and Clooney column links below are already dead -- apparently turned off by Baby New Year as he passed through town at the stroke of midnight.]
Sad news for newspaper fans: the Cincinnati Post published its last edition today, ending its 126-year run and ending Cincinnati's days as a two-newspaper town.
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Happy birthday to Who2's unofficial mascot, Ulrich Zwingli. The oft-forgotten Swiss theologian turns 624 on New Year's Day.
We can't describe Zwingli better than we did in last year's tribute: "The Protestant Reformer who survived bubonic plague, had a secret marriage at age 38, and still ended up playing Avis to Martin Luther's Hertz."
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Tom Brady set a new season record for touchdown passes (50) as the New England Patriots became the first NFL team to go undefeated in a 16-game season. NFL.com has photos galore.
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The shocking death of Benazir Bhutto has turned into a confounding argument over the cause.
Early reports said she'd died in a bomb blast. Then reports of gunshots surfaced. Now amateur photos show two possible attackers: a clean-cut (alleged) gunman and a head-scarf-wearing (alleged) bomber.
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Two years ago we noted that TV host Dick Clark was born the same year as Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr..
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The New York Times has posted a rather stunning slideshow with commentary by John Moore, a photographer who covered the last rally of Benazir Bhutto and saw her killed.
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The BBC and the International Herald Tribune report that Benazir Bhutto has been killed at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She was reportedly shot by an assassin who then detonated a suicide bomb.
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Novelists Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer... evangelists Jerry Falwell and Tammy Faye Bakker... Derby champ Barbaro and talking chimp Washoe. They're all celebrities who passed away in 2007.
Here's our full list.
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Rough water has blocked Revolutionary War buffs from reenacting George Washington's historic crossing of the Delaware River.
"This time, Delaware crosses up Washington" reports the Newark Star-Ledger.
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Look at 'em all.