Early Addition

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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A crime scene at Grant St & St Pauls on Staten Island, police activity at Flatbush Ave & Linden Blvd in Brooklyn and a barricaded perp at Hobart Ave in the Bronx.
Seventy-eight babies were born in 48 hours at Maimonides Hospital last week—they usually deliver 20 babies a day.
The NY Times has a touching feature on the letters that actress Donna Reed received and saved from World War II servicemen—one read, "The boys in our outfit think you are a typical American girl, someone who we would like to come home to!!!!!" Reed later became an anti-war advocate, hoping for a day when "19-year-old boys will no longer be taken away to fight in old men’s battles."
Last Friday, at Grand Central Terminal, commuters heard, "Amanda Gunning, please report to the information booth to meet Brian Steed. He wants to ask you to marry him." Then the commuters cheered when Steed proposed.
The Village Voice's Wayne Barrett notes how only two reporters—one from the Daily News and the Village Voice—covered how $342 million in no-bid contracts were allowed by the Department of Education.
Former Giants player Jeremy Shockey (now with the New Orleans Saints) collapsed poolside at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. A Saints rep says he was just dehydrated.
Suffolk County police arrested a Mastic Beach couple who brought their 5-year-old along to buy drugs. The man who approached the couple's car was carrying cocaine and heroin.
A Queens congregation mourned the deaths of four members—parents and two children—who were killed in a car crash in North Carolina on Friday. The father, Wayne Pride-Hicks, apparently fell asleep at the wheel; the surviving three sons will be cared for by Pride-Hicks's mother.
And Susan Boyle has made it to the final round of Britain's Got Talent, after a rendition of "Memory" from Cats.