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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: Perps in the water at 158 St & Riverside Dr in Manhattan, a person shot on Hill Street on Staten Island, and an unusual occurrence on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
• Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut and other restaurant brands, will post calorie information on menus across the country.
• The manslaughter case against former Nets star Jayson Williams continues with the latest question being whether an investigator used a racial slur.
• Prisoners at the Suffolk County Jail donated money to the family of a corrections officers who was strangled at his second job.
• MyFoxNY wonders why, during the city's budget-conscious times, Department of Environmental Protection employees are taking their city-issued cars home.
• Publishers want a piece of Tina Fey--apparently they're willing to pay up to $6 million for a non-fiction humor book from her. We hope it's called "Bitch is the New Black."
• Get ready to pay more for Halloween pumpkins this year: Though growing conditions were great, expenses for pumpkin farmers rose.
• And speaking of Halloween, an Ohio woman wore a cow costume, chased children, and urinated on a neighbor's front porch. The police arrested her and took basically a full-length mugshot of her in her udder glory.