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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery at Commerce Bank on 3rd Ave. in Manhattan, a high angel rescue at 47 St. & 5th Ave. in Manhattan and a train derailment on Longwood Ave. in the Bronx.

  • The latest gun buyback, where the Brooklyn DA's office gives $200 for weapons, netted 427 firearms. One man said, "I'm a plumber but not currently employed, and times are hard."

  • A Rikers Island guard was fired last week on a charge of smuggling a scalpel to an accused killer and reputed gang leader.

  • Staten Island women tell the Advance about perverts on mass transit, like a man "masturbating while reading a newspaper on the ferry."

  • Federal officials are working on options to lure dolphins, currently feasting on fish in a NJ river, back to the ocean after two dolphins have died in recent weeks.

  • The NY Times looks at how lesbian bar Rubyfruit fell into financial difficulties, but now has a new future, thanks to a "prominent lesbian."

  • Is any Bon Jovi song really worth $400 million? Apparently it is to a Boston musician suing the legendary New Jersey band for allegedly stealing lyrics on the recent tune JBJ penned as the theme to this year's playoffs.

  • There was a surprise guest at last night's Diesel XXX Party: a baby in M.I.A.'s belly!

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It must've been a very exciting newspaper story.

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A high ANGEL rescue? Angels smoke dope? get stoned? really?

A "prominent lesbian"? Is Rosie hitting the hootch again, or just the hootchie?

Who can blame him, when that day's "Cathy" strip was about Cathy trying on a bikini in a fitting room and saying "AAAAACK."

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