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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A violent python on 249 St in Queens, a person struck by a train at 8th Ave at W 49 St in Manhattan and a shooting on Valentine Ave in the Bronx.
- Preliminary NYPD numbers show that there were 516 murders in 2008, up from the 496 murders last year but well under the 586 in 2006. Three precincts—the 6th in the West Village, the 68th in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and 111th in Bayside, Queens—are possibly without any murders at all!
- The 15-year-old girl, nicknamed "Lady Red," accused of killing two men was indicted.
- A Long Island town's budget director was charged with third degree rape for having sex with an underage (17-year-old) teen girl at a "hot sheets motel." When the Post called his mom, she said, "I don't believe this!" said he told her "he was staying overnight with some friends."
- The last segment of the first NBC Nightly News in 2009 was about skateboarding bulldogs.
- A 14-year-old Long Island boy was found dead early this morning. While there were no signs of trauma or foul play, homicide detectives are investigating.
- Final 2008 babies are end-of-the year tax breaks. Tax breaks are also why a bunch of people got married last-minute yesterday.
- Sarah Palin told People magazine daughter Bristol and future son-in-law Levi, "You need to know that both Levi and Bristol are working their butts off to parent and going to school and working at the same time."
- When pulled over for DWI in Arizona, retired basketball player Charles Barkley told the cops he just wanted to have oral sex.
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