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-- After more than two decades in prison, new DNA evidence helped set a wrongly convicted rape suspect free yesterday.
-- Next week only Justice Sandra Day O'Conner will be back on the bench!
-- The city is trying to make it easier to change the sex listed on your birth certificate.
-- We just love this story! A doctor, now practicing in LA, has been indicted in Jersey for cutting a hand off of a cadaver and giving it as a gift to an exotic dancer he had a thing with.
-- A 32-year-old gym teacher has been charged with sleeping with one of her 13-year-old students.
-- Two former NYPD officers who lost their jobs in the Abner Louima brouhaha are suing the city to get their jobs back.
-- Wow. Even with the absurdity of her campaign, Pirro managed to rake in a cool half-million last week.
-- Did you know that the first woman to cycle around the world was a Jewish mother from Boston? Us neither.

Kentile Floors (our favorite sign in the city) by daltonrooney via Contribute.

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Did I miss the memo that as a parent I now need to be equally suspicious of women as of men when it comes to my kids. What the hell has happened to us?

Glad that new DNA evidence finally got out of prison!

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