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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: an armed robbery at 7-11 on Metropolitan Ave in Queens, falling debris at Marcy and Willoughby Aves in Brooklyn and a water rescue off Surf Ave in Brooklyn.
- Billy Mays, the infomercial pictchman well-known for his boisterous selling of products such as Oxiclean, was found dead at age 50 in his Tampa Bay home. There were no sings of foul play.
- Two small children suffered serious injuries when a car hit the vehicle they were in as their mother was making a U-turn at a Copiague intersection.
- A Brooklyn principal under investigation for allegedly soaking the Department of Education for unearned overtime and unauthorized absences is now planning to parlay a foundation-funded field trip to Miami into an unapproved vacation.
- The Post says NYU plans to add 6 million square feet of space by 2031—development that may include a 40-story residential tower, the tallest in the Village.
- Iranian authorities have detained British Embassy workers. The European Union is demanding for their immediate release, because "harassment or intimidation" will be met with a "strong collective" response.
- Bo Obama rides a wave: The popularity of Portuguese water dogs has tripled in the past few years—apparently there were just 15 registered in NYC back in 2007, and now there are 45.
- And officials in a Catskills town are frowning on a school for giving shot glasses to students as party favors at a recent high school prom.
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