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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A sexual assault at 130th Ave & Merrick Blvd in Queens, a found DOA at Canal St & Essex St in Seward Park in Manhattan, and aircraft emergency at JFK.
  • Jury selection will begin in the trial of Nixzmary Brown's mother. The prosecution has abandoned strategy of claiming the mother was jealous that the fatally abused child was being sexually assaulted by her stepfather.
  • A Time Warner Cable repairman rushed a little boy suffering a seizure to the hospital in his van, although TWC rules do not permit non-TWC employees inside--and the boy was saved!
  • Gawker finds Luke Russert's blog "annoyingly free of self-awareness." An excerpt of the young Russert's writings, "In the last three months, three things have brought the two candidates together: one, my late father's funeral mass; two, Rick Warren's Saddleback Forum about faith and God; three, 9/11."
  • Mmm...oysters from "one of the filthiest and most wretched bodies of water in Brooklyn."
  • The NYPD is going from blue to green, with "a growing fleet of environmentally friendly vehicles."
  • And two Boerum Hill "dairy maids" want to try to sell ice cream in Rwanda.
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  • Mr Mel

    Stepfather=The mother's boyfriend, the usual suspect.

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