--This isn't local, but the big crime story of the day is the revelation that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was involved with a prostitution ring. He made a public statement alongside his wife earlier today. Our motherblog Gothamist has all the details. [Gothamist] --In political sex scandal news related to our State House, the arraignment of Carl Stanley McGee, the Deval Patrick aide who is accused of "sexual battery on the boy whom......

Bostonist's old pal Bill Weld is officially running for governor of New York, the Globe, Herald, and NY Times report today. Whether he can give New York's mighty pitbull of an Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, a run for his money remains to be seen, but that's really a matter for our good friends at Gothamist to ponder. We can offer kudos to Weld for resisting the siren song of the white house, which seems to......