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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a stabbing at Utica and Atlantic Aves. in Brooklyn, an overturned auto with passenger ejection on the LIE in Queens, and a report of a suspicious device on 43rd St. and Lexington Ave. in Manhattan.
NJ police located the driver of the red pickup truck that initiated the chain reaction car crash that's left the state's Governor John Corzine seriously injured. The 20-year-old driver will not be ticketed.
Hoping to regain some of the luster lost during the Imus-"Hos" fiasco, CBS Radio will be replacing the shock jock with Mike & The Mad Dog in the station's morning timeslot.
Hardly a surprise, but the failed-pitcher-turned-actor who beat his girlfriend's cat to death doesn't limit himself to hurting animals. The NY Post reports that he roughs ups the ladies as well, once slamming a girlfriend's fingers in a metal door.
AIDS activists are upset that City Council Speaker Christine Quinn won't support a housing program for HIV-positive New Yorkers. They feel she's attempting to appear more mainstream in advance of a run for Mayor.
A Brooklyn woman who joined the Peace Corp after an earlier career in journalism has gone missing in the Phillipines.
A litany of complaints from an inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center suddenly ceased when he started having sex with his jailhouse therapist.
A private plane rolled right off the runway at Teterboro Airport early yesterday evening.
Yankee pitcher Carl Pavano's arm hurts, so the team is reorganizing its pitching rotation.

(graffiti on the docks, by g. rox at flickr)

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