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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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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on June 22, 2008 6:45 PM

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sonyactivision

And R.I.P. George Carlin. You were one of the goddamned fucking best there was.

sonyactivision

Hey, the Times just outed Barack Obama as Archer Daniels Midland's bitch. The Ethanol Queen doesn't stand for "change" after all, he just wants to starve the planet so he can win in Iowa!