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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: severed fingers (youch!) on 206th St. in Queens, a mother stabbed by her son on N. 22nd St. in Queens, and a homicide on the FDR Drive and East 10th St. in Manhattan.
- The rising cost of groceries is hitting families that use food stamps hard.
- The illegibility of doctors' Rx handwriting is legendary, but it almost cost one man his life when he was given medicine to treat manic behavior instead of his kidney failure.
- A man on a bicycle randomly rode up to a Queens woman strolling with her daughter and stabbed her in the chest.
- If one is so inclined, it's possible to have ConEd supply your energy with wind power for a small additional price.
- Frank Powers Sr., who was expected to fill the Congressional seat of Vito Fossella when he resigned, died in his sleep.
- A woman who fell out her wheelchair at the Psychiatric Emergency Ward of Kings County Hospital lay dead or dying for an hour as hospital staff walked around her.
- Double Dutch jump-rope as a varsity-level high school sport? It could happen in NYC.
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