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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A hostage situation on Beach 86th St in Queens, a jumper up at De Kruif Pl in the Bronx and a power outage at 15 St & 1st Ave in Manhattan.
Freebie/cheapie alert: Today is Ben & Jerry's free cone day (between noon and 8 p.m.—locations). Also, Dunkin Donuts is offering 50-cent 16 oz. iced coffees at all locations to benefit Homes for Our Troops.
A Long Island family of four was found dead in a Maryland hotel. Baltimore County police believe the family had been visiting their oldest daughter (who was one of the victims) who was a student at Loyola.
Charter school teachers are conflicted about whether they want union representation. One who is skeptical of union efforts said, "I saw early on that the union was not, in my opinion, looking to have amicable conversations with the administration. We were being encouraged to be even more miserable, and if I can avoid misery, I want to do that."
Joe the Plumber is in NJ, campaigning for a Republican gubernatorial candidate.
The FBI won't comment about Rep. Peter King's comments except to say, "The FBI does not investigate mosques or other houses of worship," but it does investigate individuals. The Republican Congressman had claimed Long Island mosques were under surveillance.
A Bronx couple found a cache of Civil War-era letters and other documents in their Catskills weekend house.
Matt Drudge doesn't talk to anyone anymore—except, allegedly, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Andrew Breitbart, which Gawker says is an "awful life."
Maybe the NY Times' future is in real estate listings: A home seller says the Times listing was more effective than Twitter for an open house.
Does Shia LaBoeuf have Hollywood's worst facial hair? If so, Joaquin Phoenix better watch his back!

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on April 21, 2009 12:02 PM

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Steven

Who cares about Joe the Plumber!??? Doesn't he know his 15 minutes of fame ended long time ago? ugh. I despise people trying to milk their worthless fame.