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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting at 111th St and Lexington Ave in Manhattan, an armed robbery at a Citgo station on Rockaway Blvd in Queens and a possible explosive device on 164th St and Jerome Ave in The Bronx.
  • A Nassau County man was arrested for selling fireworks to kids out of his aunt's house. Not only were fireworks confiscated from the suspect, the cops took the fireworks from the children.
  • The DEA busted a drug cartel in The Bronx who had run over $30 million in heroin hidden inside brown teddy bears.
  • A man is in critical condition after being shot in the torso by a police officer after he had opened fire on them during a chase in The Bronx early Saturday morning.
  • A Staten Island teenager was arrested for graffiti—after tagging a police chief's car.
  • The Times looks at the NYPD Emergency Service Unit's big rigs, such as one known as Bear Cat, that get rolled out in extreme situations.
  • Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's usual order at Nathan's is three hot dogs and two double fries.
  • A lawyer for Roger Clemens has revealed that The Rocket is not on the 2003 list of 104 major leaguers who had anonymously tested positive for banned substances.
  • Serena Williams upset her sister Venus to win her third career singles championship at Wimbledon.
  • And police had another naked man on their hands, this time in Lake Tahoe. A 19-year-old needed to be Tazed after running around an arcade in the buff while on LSD, claiming that he believed he was the Terminator.

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Is Serena beating Venus really an upset? Serena was the 2 seed and Venus was the 3.

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