Extra, Extra: Broadway Lights Will Dim For Jean Stapleton

Nell Casey

Published Jun 4, 2013

Modified Jun 4, 2013

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The bright lights of Broadway will dim for one minute at 8 p.m. tomorrow night to honor the late Jean Stapleton.
Tissues at the ready: Massachusetts police gave the guard of honor to sick police dog Kaiser on his way to be put down after a losing battle with kidney disease.
The Detroit Masonic Temple found a hero in Jack White, who paid the theater's $142,000 outstanding tax bill.
A 3D, remastered version of the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is coming to theaters for one week this fall.
Steven Seagal may be the new face of Russian weapons manufacturers.
Foursquare would like New York City to crown the Game of Cones by checking in at local ice cream parlors.
A Brooklyn woman's decomposing corpse was found with a bizarre note about casting spells.
Williamsburg's Banter Bar has a decorative urinal game thief.
Soul singer Sharon Jones has been diagnosed with stage-one bile duct cancer, but says it's "operable and curable."
And finally, this Husky deserves an Academy Award:

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