When News Anchors Attack

Sounds like Philadelphia news anchor Alycia Lane has some issues. Talking smack like this, she may wind up being charged with a hate crime, not to mention assault for punching a police officer.

When last heard from, she was sending racy photos of herself to the NFL Network's Rich Eisen (some may question her sanity for that alone). Now she's in a bit of hot water because of an altercation with an female member of the NYPD.

Breakdown in the Fast Lane

A foxy Philly anchorwoman - who once e-mailed sexy swimsuit snaps to a married TV talking head - became an anger woman yesterday, calling a female NYPD cop a "dyke bitch" and slugging her in the face, law-enforcement sources said.

Alycia Lane - an anchor for Philadelphia's KYW-TV and a former TV reporter in The Bronx - was in a cab with her hunky boyfriend, K-Rock ex-jock Chris Booker, when they got stuck behind a slow-moving, unmarked police car in Chelsea, the sources said.

When the unmarked car stopped for a red light at Ninth Avenue and 17th Street, Booker, 36, went over to the vehicle to find out what was causing the delay.

When apparently told the occupants were officers looking for a perp, he yelled, "I don't care if you're a cop! Drive faster!" the sources said.

The three officers inside, two men and a woman, got out and began questioning Booker, now a deejay with Q102 in Philadelphia, the sources said.

The petite, twice-divorced Lane, 35, then also got out of the cab and began snapping photos, getting in the face of a male cop doing most of the grilling, the sources said.

The female cop told the anchor, "You can take pictures, but you have to step back," the sources said.

Lane went ballistic, shouting that she was a TV reporter and declaring, "I don't care that you're a cop - you dyke bitch!" the sources said.

Then she allegedly walloped the officer in the face.

Lane - whose lawyer said she didn't know the three were cops - was taken to the 10th Precinct station house, where she was charged with assaulting an officer.

Oops.

Good career move.

Looks like Lane will be a fixture in the NY Post.

As Page Six reported last May, Lane e-mailed bikini photos of herself to NFL Network anchorman Rich Eisen, only to have them discovered by his wife, Suzy Shuster.

A seething Shuster fired off a stinging letter to Lane, saying, "Boy do you look amazing in a bikini . . . congrats! Whatever you're doing (Pilates? yoga?) keep it up."

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin nominates Lane for jerk of the year.