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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A suspicious death at 9 Ave (btwn 50 & 51 St) in Manhattan, pedestrian struck at 89th Ave & 162nd St in Queens and a perp search on 78th Street in Brooklyn.
Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith's 24-year-old son was busted for marijuana possession. Smith said, "This is an issue that will resolve itself in due course and I will support my son as I always have."
Circuit City is telling its bankruptcy judge it needs $4.6 million to keep employees from leaving as it winds down business.
At Hofstra, a teenager stole a fire chief's SUV—which was left running as the chief inspected a call—and caused an accident injuring six people.
Camille Paglia, who once called Madonna the "future of feminism," puts a nail in the Material Girl's coffin by saying the singer is "pathetic now." But did Camille see Madonna's guns?
A thief called police officers "idiots" for apprehending the wrong guy in a Brooklyn bodega burglary (two malt liquors). The cops eventually took the confessed thief in.
A NJ dentist found a dinosaur bone in a stream, leading one NJ.com commenter to complain, "Now I'm disappointed in my dentist, he never does anything cool."
Dr. Phil says OctoMom Nadya Suleman called him, worried that the hospital won't release the octuplets because the hospital is worried about her living arrangement (in a possibly soon-to-be foreclosed house with her mom and six other kids).

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on February 25, 2009 12:06 PM

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Kojak

Yes the man was an Idiot for stealing cheap booze, but I wouldn't go as far as to call him an idiot for confessing. At least the wrong man didn't go to Jail.

Mr Mel

"Dr. Phil says OctoMom Nadya Suleman called him, worried that the hospital won't release the octuplets"

Now, maybe these infants finally caught a break.