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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: An unstable building at Myrtle Ave & Bushwick Ave in Brooklyn, a ground transport incident at Bay St & Victory Blvd on Staten Island and a water main break at W 4th St & 8th Ave in Manhattan.
- The sentencing of a Staten Island woman, who was found guilty of killing her fire marshal husband, was postponed, because her lawyer was hospitalized.
- A 1998 Manhattan case may offer some clues about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's leanings on the death penalty.
- Senator Charles Schumer brokered a deal that allows the NYPD to hire 128 more cops, using federal money.
- Before signing away her fortune to her son, Brooke Astor told her doctor, "I'm gaga."
- Authorities say that an off-duty Quogue cop Richard Kappel did not have permission to drive the Ferrari that he crashed, killing himself and a passenger.
- Eight people from a repair company on Staten Island were arrested for a bookkeeping scam where they attempted to steal nearly $3 million from a major recycling plant. The current and former owners of the repair company wre among those arrested.
- Seeing a free show by comedian Louis CK isn't necessarily as easy as it sounds when he tweeted about it.
- For the first time in over three years, David Letterman beat The Tonight Show in last week's Nielsen ratings.
- While Calvin Klein has been using sexed up ads to stir up buzz about their jeans once again, Wrangler isn't afraid to add the hint of violence into the mix.
- And in Australia, wallabies (think mini-kanagaroos) are blamed for creating crop circles and trampling on plants, because they are high from chowing down on the legal opium poppy crops. Aw, wallabies!
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