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Fiery actor Alec Baldwin was arrested Friday after allegedly punching someone in New York City's West Village neighborhood, Fox News has confirmed. Police sources tell us Baldwin is currently in custody after getting into an argument over a parking spot. Charges against the actor are pending. A rep for the actor did not immediately return Fox News' request for comment.

The Bloviator strikes again! Notorious hothead Alec Baldwin slugged a driver in a fight over a parking spot outside his Manhattan home early Friday, cops said. Baldwin was arrested for misdemeanor assault, and is being held at the NYPD’s 6th Precinct station house in Greenwich Village, cops said.

Actor Alec Baldwin was arrested Friday after allegedly punching someone in the West Village. Law enforcement sources told News 4 the dispute was over a parking spot. Further details were not immediately available. Baldwin, 60, has experienced a career resurgence over the last two years for his caustic impersonation of President Trump -- an act routinely featured on "Saturday Night Live." The actor has four children under the age of 5 with his wife Hilaria, as well as an adult daughter with first wife Kim Basinger. This is a developing story.

An upstate New York woman choked a nightclub bouncer until he fell unconscious, claiming he groped her until she realized one of her friends was behind the butt grab, police said. Kierah Lagrave, 22, of Plattsburgh, had been at the Five1Eight nightclub on October 20 when she noticed someone slap her butt from behind. The woman then walked up to the bouncer, strangling him until he fell unconscious and dropped to the floor, police said. Authorities tracked down and arrested Lagrave last Thursday on a charge of second-degree strangulation and later released her on her own recognizance.

SNIPPET: "An Aeromexico plane flying to Mexico City from Paris had to land late Sunday afternoon at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal to remove a passenger whose name is on the U.S. no-fly list, Radio-Canada reported. The man was escorted out of the plane and taken into custody by the RCMP."

A Hoffman staffer tells NRO that a Hoffman supporter had his tires slashed this afternoon near United Methodist Church on Beakman Street in Plattsburgh. A police report has been filed.

From the Battle of Plattsburgh edition of Lake Champlain Weekly First, my enormous thanks to the owners and editor of Lake Champlain Weekly for allowing me, an enemy national, to write this column at a time of war between our countries. This respect for freedom of speech is part of our shared Anglo-American heritage, which your country, to its great credit, has written into its Constitution. As my regular readers will know, I am a great admirer of America, and though your country is less than 40 years old, I am sure it has a great future ahead of it....

PLATTSBURGH -- After hearing overwhelming support for a resolution opposed to war in Iran, Plattsburgh city councilors agreed to send a message. ... The council voted unanimously to support Provost's resolution calling for all diplomatic efforts to be exhausted before entering into war with Iran. The measure was altered somewhat as a compromise. Taken out were specific paragraphs that directly criticized President George W. Bush, accused the administration of lying, pointed out the number of soldiers and people killed and wounded in the war with Iraq, and the cost of the war. Councilor William Provost (D-Ward 6) "That was democracy...

A recent poll conducted by five New York legislators showed their constituents would support higher taxes on the wealthiest population to help pay for education. Voters in all five districts strongly supported a new surcharge on incomes above $150,000, if the revenue was dedicated to providing additional aid to public schools. The poll, which was presented Monday at the state legislative budget hearing on education funding, surveyed voter opinion in the districts of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Owen Johnson (R-Babylon), Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Herman "Denny" Farrell (D-Manhattan), the Senate Education Committee Chairman Stephen Saland (R-Poughkeepsie), Assembly Education...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (Reuters) - The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to patrol its porous northern border with Canada by using helicopters, airplanes and boats to monitor illegal immigration and drug traffic, officials said on Friday. The first of five planned facilities, the Air and Marine Branch, has begun operations 80 miles north of Seattle, with the aim of "maximizing" security with Canada, a country known for its friendly ties with the United States. Similar patrols already operate extensively along the southern border with Mexico, where thousands of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America pass through into the United...

The Sludge Report After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and that really loud woman from Florida, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems. Stop the presses!!! There’s nothing more exciting than half a story from a third hand source!!!! Insiders tell SLUDGE, that the reason the network was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and third-largest markets, was because, the owner of both stations, Arthur Liu of Multicultural Broadcasting, said, the network bounced a check and owes...