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Reuters – New York state’s film tax credit has generated about $7 billion in economic activity since 2004 and become a key economic driver, the state’s comptroller said on Tuesday.

AP – A police tow truck removed a minivan parked outside a New York City funeral home, giving its dearly departed passenger an unexpected side trip. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said there was “nothing to indicate it was more than just an illegally parked car.” Redden’s Funeral Home director Paul DeNigris said a windshield placard had fallen flat. The van’s tinted windows helped obscure the white cardboard box that held the remains.

Reuters – Thousands of workers who suffered health problems after the September 11 attacks in 2001 have reached a settlement worth up to $657.5 million with an insurer representing the city of New York, city officials and lawyers said on Thursday.

Reuters – Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall.

AP – President Obama’s spokesman is brushing aside allegations by a resigned New York congressman who says he was forced out by the administration and Democratic leaders because of his opposition to health care reform.

AP – Stock futures rose slightly Monday as investors welcomed a fresh round of corporate deals.

An investigative piece published by The New York Times shows more than $100 billion of taxpayers’ money have gone to U.S. companies whose foreign subsidiaries do business with Iran. As much as $15 billion may have gone to companies that were defying U.S. sanctions. Steve Inskeep talks to the Time’s Jo Becker, who co-authored the report with colleague Ron Nixon.

AP – Lil Wayne has agreed to go to jail in a gun case, but it has proven unexpectedly hard to put him there.

AP – One runway, a whole lot of problems.

AP – One runway, a whole lot of problems.