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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: An overturned vehicle on the southbound Deegan Expy just south of the Cross Bronx Expressway, a suspicious package at Penn Station and a floater near Rikers Island off Queens.
• Closing arguments are expected in the trial of Nixzmary Brown's mother, who is charged with the 7-year-old death in 2006.
• An in-depth interview with the retired cop who is suing the city over another cop "accidentally" shooting him in the back and causing spinal damage.
• An off-duty EMT helped a cop rescue man trapped in his drowning SUV in Cold Spring Harbor. The driver, who was done fishing, was pulling his boat out of the water when he blacked out.
• A Hartford Courant columnist is sad that Gossip Girl--like the Gilmore Girls before it--didn't shoot its Yale scenes at Yale (Columbia stood in!).
• An off-duty cop holding a Sweet 16 for his daughter in Tarrytown had to, uh, call the cops when a fight broke out--up to 200 people were brawling. There was also gunfire.
• Jesus, is Ringo Starr cranky! He says he doesn't want his fans to write to him anymore and if they do, "It's going to be tossed."
• Finally, on the other side of the country, a section of San Francisco was shut down due to a bomb threat--because a man was angry he didn't get to be a contestant on the press conference.