She was released from jail. But, good God, big media, have you no mercy? The precious face of Alycia Lane, who since becoming a CBS 3 news anchor in 2003 has been the sexiest brown haired beauty on CBS other than Ray Ramano, has been unleashed.

Coming out of a New York City criminal court early yesterday morning, Lane was caught without TV makeup, frustrated and, well, not put together. Compare the photo to the left to her station released graphic below it.  

As the details emerge about why Lane ended up getting arrested by two NYC cops in downtown Manhattan, the story is getting more and more absurd. According to the New York Post, Lane was in a cab with her so-labeled boyfriend, Q102 morning host Chris Booker, and another couple traveling behind a slow-moving vehicle that turned out to be an unmarked police car.

One of the men reportedly got out of the cab to yell at the driver of the unmarked car. The anonymous driver turned out to be a plainclothes police officer and when a female officer, also in the unmarked car, approached Alycia Lane, who at this point had gotten out and begun to take photos of the incident, the female cop got a lesson… don’t f with Philly news anchors. Lane reportedly punched the officer, lacerating her face, and CBS 3’s biggest star got carted off to jail amid a flurry of obscentities. 

Despite the fun, we’ve lost a great one. Between this incident and when she allegedly sent bikini photos of herself to Rich Eisen, the married ABC sports reporter, CBS 3 can’t possibly keep her around. Can they?

Even if they do, it looks like there’s a return to the competition to find who is the hottest Philly newscaster. Is it ABC 6’s Erin O’Hearn or Fox 29’s Kerri-Lee Halkett? We’re leaning towards Erin, but let us know. For sure, Alycia’s out.

Joey Vento, the owner of Geno’s Steaks – one half of the cheesesteak launching pad near South Philly’s Italian Market – is still getting ink for a sign he put on his business’s window back in 2006, according to KYW Newsradio.

The sign, “This is America, when ordering ‘Speak English” got international media attention for being a symbol for the struggles the United States has had with its newest wave of immigration. 

On Friday, Vento testified at a hearing of the Philadephia Commission on Human Relations, which has the power to heavily fine him or even revoke his business license.

The Commission found probable cause that Vento discriminated against the foreign-born. Vento counters that he has never turned down a customer but that, instead, he put the sign up for political beliefs.   

Vento, whose grandparents emigrated from Italy, is a self-made millionaire off wiz and sirloin. A decision won’t be made for at least two months. 

Alycia Lane, CBS 3 anchor and Philly sex goddess, allegedly punched a female police officer in the face, according to a post by Philadelphia Daily News blogger Dan Gross, a Temple alum. 

Not surprisingly though, even huge Philly news manages to get outshined by New York City. It was a NYPD cop Lane reportedly punched, and she is currently locked up in a NYC jail, after being arrested just after 2am this morning in downtown Manhattan.

The NYPD report mentioned an unidentified male with Lane when the alleged assault went down. No report yet on why this just makes Alycia Lane seem hotter.

Drexel University.

Not that anyone has ever heard of it, but the Web site campussqueeze.com rated the 20 most beautiful and 20 ugliest colleges. Local colleges Rowan and Drexel were among those receiving the short end of the stick. On Drexel:

It’s small, sporadic, and basically Philadelphia’s urban dumpster called a higher place of learning. That’s embarassing [sic]. The people of Drexel (the administrators, not the students) need to wake up and look around their filthy campus and shape it up.

Ouch.

No local colleges Swathmore and Princeton made the “most beautiful” list though.

Well, not exactly.

But when an identity thieving young couple had their apartment raided, police found – among other things:

• $18,000 in cash
• a Rolex watch
• counterfeit Georgia state driver’s licenses
• credit cards in the names of neighbors
• a 2005 article from the Daily Pennsylvanian on “How to Spot Fake IDs.”

The couple had traveled all over the word and had a $3,000-a-month apartment.

[Source: philly.com]

Did ya hear about the Penn kid who broke into the dormitory rooms of female students and stole their underwear? Yeah.. creepy. A little awesome, too.

Yet, all the Daily Pennsylvanian opinion bloggers could get out of that was a snide masturbation joke directed at engineering students.

I might have gone with, “Police refused to comment on what happened to the perpetrator’s underwear.”

Actually, that’s what The Spin, DP’s opinion blog, is, a constant reminder that while perhaps dumber, poorer, less successful and celebrated than Penn kids, we are definitely smarter funnier. All in 300-word posts with dead punch lines (see the hilarious DP jabs at Indiana University of Pennsylvania).

Edit: “smarter” to “funnier” (12/7/07)