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From the Gothamist Newsmap: a power outage on Baisley Blvd in Queens, a jewelry store robbery on 57th St in Manhattan and a shooting at Herkimer St and Schenectady Ave in Brooklyn.
A Port Authority cop's car was being stolen from his Queens home, so he jumped into the moving car and fired at the thief.
Aw: A Harlem mother gave birth to a baby girl in her Halem apartment with the help of a firefighter and EMT. New mom Fanny Powell tells 1010 WINS, "She came out; she couldn't wait for" Mother's Day.
Reading scores of third grade public school students jumped 11% this year.
Police in NJ arrested a man for firing an assault rifle in the air; cops also found 26 firearms (including a machine gun) and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
An aide for Anthony Weiner says that today's story about the congressman missing votes for hockey games was planted by Mayor Bloomberg's people.
Congressional Democrats are now complaining about President Obama's lack of planning for how to shutter Guantanamo Bay and how to handle the detainees.
A-Rod will rejoin the Yankees this weekend and play in Batimore.
Slate wonders: does 30 Rock go soft on conservatives?
Liev Schreiber showed David Letterman this week a picture of his new role reimagining a classic sitcom, My Two Moms.
And Audrey Hepburn would have turned 80 this week. Well that's the one thing we got.