A wanted man shot a 46-year-old St. Louis cop in the face — twice — fearing he would be recognized while driving alongside the officer on Sunday, authorities said.

The on-duty sergeant with St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department was waiting for traffic to move near Hampton and Pernod Aves. around 7:30 p.m. when his assailant drove up to the marked SUV and opened fire, blasting out his window. “He saw the muzzle flashes and felt the glass breaking in his window as the shots came through and struck him in the head,” said police Chief Sam Dotson at a press conference. Fellow cops flocked to the shooting five miles southwest of the city center after the wounded officer managed to call for help on his radio. He was still strapped into his seat with his gun holstered when backup arrived.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

I have a crush on “Hamilton.” I’ve described the play as a miracle of civic education, a gratifying handoff of America’s national identity to a young, diverse generation, and wished for every school kid to see it. I’ve praised its creator Lin-Manuel Miranda as a visionary genius. Let me pile the praise even higher: “Hamilton” is the most important artistic creation in any medium of its generation and perhaps decades. Particularly at this political, cultural, and social moment in our nation’s history, “Hamilton” matters.

By now you are familiar with the Pence Affair. The Vice President-elect went to see the play Friday night and the cast couldn’t resist the opportunity after the show to lecture Pence from the stage.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

There were bloodstains all over his East Side apartment, investigators say, a dead man’s clothes in the trash chute in the hallway and evidence that a corpse had been in the car he was driving. But a suspect in the grisly stabbing death of a Connecticut man who was in New York for a night on the town insists he didn’t do it.

Suspect James Rackover doesn’t dispute that victim Joseph Comunale, 26, was in his apartment Nov. 13. But he claims he never even laid eyes on his guest, and he knew nothing about Comunale’s death until after he was arrested. “This is complete bulls—,” Rackover told the Daily News Sunday during a jailhouse interview at the Manhattan Detention Complex, where he is being held on $3 million bond. “I’ve never seen this kid. I don’t even know who he is.”(nydailynews.com)…[+]