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From the Gothamist Newsmap: an aircraft emergency at JFK, an attempted bank robbery at a WaMu on Coney Island Ave in Brooklyn and a perp search at PS 42 in the Bronx.
Scores are dead after Israeli forces attacked the Gaza Strip.
A local doctor who volunteered for his second tour of duty in Iraq and had once done the same to treat 9/11 victims died in a Christmas day attack.
A 15-year-old boy in the Bronx has been arrested and is facing murder charges in the killing of the young man who was recently found stabbed over 40 times.
Over 130 workers at the Stella D'Oro cookie factory in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx spent Christmas day on the picket line.
If Andy Pettite walks on the Yankees' offer to be their fifth starter, will they back to youngster Phil Hughes for the role? And will their circuits overload from not shelling out another multimillion dollar contract?
One man was so inspired by The Curious Case of Benjamin Button that he shot a fellow moviegoer for talking too loud during it.
And a lifting of the smoking ban to promote "urban mortality" as well as a "doomsday scenario" of Starbucks locations in town dropping to under 12,000 are among some of the local predictions for 2009 in today's Times.