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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck at Atlantic Ave and Court St, a collapse on 37th St and 11th Ave in Manhattan and a stairway collapse at Jackson Ave and 46th Ave in Queens.
  • Mayor Bloomberg is opening his home to a fundraiser for Jersey City Mayor Jeremiah Healey.
  • Thirty-two students from P.S. 86 in the Bronx will take a school trip to Germany and Dachau. The students have been learning about the Holocaust; one was very excited, “Every single day I see American people — mostly Hispanic — around my block. But I never see German people.”
  • Inspectors found no salmonella at that Long Island pistachio plant after all.
  • Curbed commenters call this new retail-n-rental building "a dog" and "so bad it hurts.
  • A tornado descended on Murfreesboro, Tennessee Friday, killing two people and injuring another 30.
  • In the wake of Angels pitcher's Nick Adenhart's death by a DWI hit-and-run driver, the Daily News' Mike Lupica says Joba Chamberlain is really lucky.
  • Some helpful suggestions to improve new sitcom Parks and Recreation are popping up in some unexpected places around the web.
  • And Method Man and Redman will be at a Staten Island barbershop tomorrow where kids can get free fades. These guys really care about personal grooming!

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Wow, Murfreesboro is my college town. Further proof that God hates Wrestling, Nascar and trailers.

you forgot gun nuts.
sounds like the South is getting some nasty weather this weekend.
I didn't know murfreesboro was a college town?

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oh, great- Method Man and Redman are such good role models for the kiddies!

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