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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a residential hi-rise fire on 10th Ave. in Manhattan, a double shooting on Beach Channel Drive in Queens, and a transformer fire at Barbey St. and Pitkin Ave. in Brooklyn.
- Entergy was fined $130,000 for not installing a warning siren system at its Indian Point facility by a required deadline. That would be the nuclear power plant that just had its safety rating downgraded by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
- The City Council distributed a memo reminding workers that even though Casual Fridays were in effect, flip-flops, shorts, and other too-casual clothing items are inappropriate for city government.
- A mugging by an 11-year-old who wanted another child's change after he bought candy ended with the victim's skull impaled with a stick. He survived, but is expected to leave the hospital for a nursing home.
- The niece of Tom Carvel, the man who brought us Fudgie the Whale, is claiming that he was murdered with poison and wants his body exhumed so an autopsy can be performed. We never trusted Cookie Puss.
- A gravedigger in Yonkers noticed four black bags in a freshly dug grave he had recently prepared. The bags each contained one smoked fish and pictures of unidentified people. Police are investigating but the bags' meaning is yet to be determined.
- The city medical examiner ruled that the jump rope-involved death of five-year-old Monet/Monique Flugham was an accident.
- The shutterbug photographer who caught American Idol lingerer Sanjaya hobnobbing with Gov. Spitzer––or is it the other way around?––is none other than Valerie Bertinelli!
- The case of NYC vs. Deadbeat Diplomats is being heard in the Supreme Court this week.
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Tom Carvel murdered? This is a huge scandal if true. I still remember his froggy voice raving about cookie pus.
"These pussy crumbs are making me itch."
—Beastie Boys
Mister Softee did it!
Valerie Bertinelli. Sigh...
The jump rope death was an accident? Maybe the press should have waited for that bit of information before throwing around allegations that the little girl was sexually assaulted. Remember when they did that during the aftermath of Katrina at the Superdome?
The mainstream press has gotten so irresponsible in it's reporting over the last few years. No wonder we all turn to blogs t o find out what's really going on these days.
If I type the name "Richard Jewell" and a the words "Olympic bomber" come to mind, that's a good indication that press irresponsibility goes back further than a decade.
Anyone else notice that the City Council memo has a pretty egregious typo? "While the Council has recognized the merits of allowing for a more relaxed dress policy on Friday's we must remember this is still a place of business." I guess it's asking too much to expect officials and their staffs to understand the subtle art of apostrophes...