Cheat Sheet - Holy Murder: Did a Police Mistake Get a Priest Killed?

Today: After the Blizzard, 100 Million People Will Be Hit With Freezing Air From the North Pole , First Rule of the Fake Dead Bankers Club: Stay Gone , Indian PM to Step Down January 03, 2014 HOLY MURDER 1. Did a Police Mistake Get a Priest Killed? The devout grieve in Eureka, California, where a beloved parish pastor was found dead on New Year's Day. The Daily Beast's Michael Daly reports that the suspect had walked out of a police station just hours earlier, after being arrested for public intoxication. St. Bernard's Church and Eureka have lost one of their most cherished neighbors and questions about the suspect's release are now mounting. Read it at The Daily Beast BOOM 2. Snowstorm Slams Northeast 2014 has started with a bang. The first major storm of the new year, dubbed Hercules, hit the northeastern U.S. on Thursday, causing thousands of flights to be canceled and making road travel dangerous. By Friday morning, nearly two feet of snow fell in Massachusetts, and a state of emergency was declared in New York and New Jersey. Almost 2,500 flights were canceled, and 7,000 were delayed. Freezing and dangerous temperatures are set to hit Friday, with wind chills in many places set to go double digits below zero. The snowstorm is the first major test for new New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was sworn in on Wednesday. Read it at The Daily Beast UNCONVINCING CON 3. You Can Run, But You Can't Die Aubrey Lee Price, a 47-year-old financier, disappeared in 2012, allegedly suicidal over the millions he was found to have embezzled from his job at a Georgia bank. This week, he was arrested when a policeman, in Georgia, pulled him over for a traffic violation. As fake-dead fugitives go, says The Daily Beast's Dan Gross, he was an amateur. Read it at The Daily Beast NAMASTE 4. Indian PM to Step Down The prime minister of the world's largest democracy resigned Friday after ten years in office. At what was only his third news conference—ever—Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 81, handed the reins to 43-year-old Rahul Gandhi, saying he has the best resumé to become the next party leader and prime minister. Singh's Congress Party has become more and more unpopular after a series of corruption scandals and a lack of adequate response to a faltering economy and long-time issues with widespread poverty, lack of education, and bad infrastructure. Read it at USA Today PRIVACY SCHMIVACY 5. Lawsuit: Facebook Sold Messages Have you no sense of decency, sir? A lawsuit filed in California accuses Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook of selling users' private messages to advertisers without their consent. The complaint claims that the network "misleads users into believing they have a secure, private mechanism for communication, when in fact Facebook... mines user data and profits from those data by sharing them with third parties." A Facebook spokesman responded that "the allegations are without merit and we will defend ourselves vigorously." Read it at Telegraph AWKWARD Emergency Room Visits Increased With healthcare laws. NEVER-ENDING Al Qaeda Hits West Iraq Continuing violence in the country. OOPS Rescue Vessel May Now Be Stuck After helping stranded passengers. MARSHMALLOWS REJOICE 'Veronica Mars' Trailer Released To the delight of its fanbase. WOOT WOOT Oklahoma Upsets Alabama 45-31 in Sugar Bowl. US WEEKLY Miley Cyrus Says Insulting Beyonce Quotes Were Made Up MINI TIME 5 Amazing January Getaways ROLLING STONE 61 Reasons to Love 2014 GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. Reel Numbers: 'Jack Ryan' At least three Americans have passed polygraph tests while spying on the U.S. Check out more spy stats connected to the reboot of Tom Clancy's brainy hero, 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.' More Videos China's Private Spy Firm? by Josh Rogin The Man With Two Penises by Kent Sepkowitz Is the New 'Community' Any Good? by Kevin Fallon

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