Extra, Extra

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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A robbery pattern in Midtown North in Manhattan, multiple lacerations on Driggs Ave in Brooklyn and shots fired on Fish Ave in the Bronx.
• Yikes: "Pakistani troops have been moved to the Indian border amid fears of an Indian ground incursion, two Pakistani military officials told CNN on Friday."
• Hey, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says he's got $9 billion in unclaimed cash for New Yorkers. But NY1 points out, "However, about 60 percent of the accounts are valued at less than $100."
• A Bronx home's Christmas display includes "glittering lifelike versions of their saints as well: Rita Hayworth, Brigitte Bardot, Nicole Kidman, Audrey Hepburn, Vivian Leigh, Joan Collins and Elizabeth Taylor, all exquisitely dressed in gowns fit for the runway, designer handbags on their arms."
• The Upper West Side woman accused of a $20 million scam says she's suffering from "debilitating panic attacks" and mentions her children are ailling too, in hopes of moving the trial to NYC.
• Conde Nast might see a 30% decrease in first quarter 2009 ad sales, confirming Nick Denton's doomsday scenario for publishers.
• Another dolphin, part of the group of dolphins that have been in NJ's Navesink River, was found dead.
• A Queens community board voted against a proposed home for mentally ill homeless adults in Astoria.
• And folks have been practicing New Year's Eve kisses in Times Square; a kissing expert says, "I always tell guys to let the kiss build slowly, that crescendo really makes it that much more juicy and fun and pleasurable."