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Betty vs. Wonder Woman, by RGP at flickr
  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on 86th St. in Brooklyn, a person under a train at Carroll and Smith Sts. in Brooklyn, and a man shot at 13th St. and Ave. C in Manhattan.
  • WNBC's Gabe Pressman has a great essay remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Beware of the fake DEP inspectors--they claim they are collecting cash for a past due payment or will look at a broken meter and claim they need to be paid.
  • Congressman Charlie Rangel told NY1 that he feared he was going to die after he was hospitalized with viral encephalitis last month.
  • A private jet arriving from Orlando, FL last night skidded off a runway at JFK after its landing gear collapsed. The resultant shutdown of the landing strip delayed flights for hours.
  • A number of elementary students at a Bedford, NY school played an April Fools Day trick on their classmates by replacing the creamy filling of Oreo cookies with toothpaste. One student became ill after eating three of the Oreos.
  • Air America on-air personality Randi Rhodes was suspended by the network after she referred to Hillary Clinton as a "f------ whore" during an network event.
  • Starbucks has something planned for Bryant Park April 8th, but won't mention what it is other than repeated allusions to its bigness.

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Something tells me the kid who ate the three toothpaste-filled Oreos answers to the name of Ralph Wiggum. "These cookies taste like the dentist!"

In addition to being an excellent metal guitarist, Randi Rhodes was not suspended for comments made during her show. They were at an public appearance.

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