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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: Perp search & home invasion at 32nd Ave & Union St in Queens, falling debris at Rockaway Pkwy and Ave L in Brooklyn and a pedestrian struck along with a barricaded perp at 48th St and 14th Ave, also in Brooklyn.
  • A suspect is critical and an officer stable but hospitalized after a wild police chase with gunfire in Newark last night. It began with officers trying to arrest two men trying to break into cars in a Burger King parking lot.
  • Even though she said that "it's important for women to support women who stand for the majority issues of women," Gloria Steinem is endorsing Cy Vance for Manhattan DA as the candidate with the strongest record on women's rights.
  • Daily News readers raised more than $20,000 to save a curious East Harlem cat who spent a week in the hospital after getting stuck in an elevator shaft.
  • Congressman Anthony Weiner would like to see stalkers with restraining orders tracked by GPS.
  • A week after submitting a young adult novel anonymously to editors, James Frey, the notorious author of “A Million Little Pieces,” and a writing partner, Jobie Hughes, have sold North American rights to “I Am Number Four” to HarperCollins Children’s Books.
  • The Williams sisters will be sharing in another all-American Breakfast at Wimbledon finals match on the Fourth of July.
  • With all those double helpings of p's and s's, Mississippi held onto the title of heaviest state in the union, probably in its fat rolls.
  • And whether it's actually him or not remains a mystery, but Jeff Goldblum is sure quoting Jeff Goldblum on Twitter as if he was dead.

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Congressman Anthony Weiner would like to see stalkers with restraining orders tracked by GPS

I think elected officials need to be tracked also-

The guy in the silhouette is he gabbing his crotch because he can't find his balls? What gives?

Who's Kino?

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