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From the Gothamist Newsmap: an escaped juvenile prisoner on Richmond Ave, a missing child at Vanderbilt Ave and Prospect Pl and a body found in Owls Head Park in Brooklyn.
A Brooklyn car service driver is in critical condition after being shot in the head twice. The driver was trying to stop two robbers from breaking into a cell phone store.
A former Merrill Lynch executive who was paid $25 million for three months work just bought a $37 million apartment.
A Jersey City math teacher was arrested for sexually assaulting a teenage girl for the last three years.
Al Franken really, gosh darn it, thinks he'll win the Minnesota race.
Curbed reveals its fifteen favorite crazy real estate renderings of 2008.
Dane Cook's brother was caught stealing millions from the comedian? Dane Cook's brother, you are not funny.
And between Slumdog Millionaire, Rachel Getting Married, or The Visitor, which was the highest-grossing indie movie of '08? Try Kirk Cameron's Christian epic, Fireproof.