Extra, Extra

Photograph by Jenelle Cleary on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A car into building at E 139th St & Willis Ave in the Bronx, a DOA floater in the Jamaica Bay (North Channel) and a shooting at Beach 86th & Rockaway Beach Blvd in Queens.
• Suffolk County police say that there was another hate crime in Patchogue last night--apparently eight white teens harassed two Hispanic men, pushing one of them.
• President Bush made Thanksgiving phone calls to soldiers overseas today; yesterday, he pardoned the two turkeys, which of course was accompanied by controversy.
• An elderly man was found stabbed to death in his Brooklyn apartment.
• USA Today lists six reasons to be thankful (#2 is "It's not a depression").
• Senator Hillary Clinton spent part of her Thanksgiving at the Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Center in Brooklyn. Former President Bill Clinton went, too.
• A mother and daughter were caught stealing $139,000 from a hospitalized elderly woman in the Bronx.
• Good one: A car thief in Toms River, NJ tried to evade the cops pursuing him by...pulling into the driveway of the chief of police.