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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.