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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a missing child on W 125th St in Manhattan, a DOA floater off Neptune Ave in Brooklyn and a tree onto a car at the 66th St entrance to Central Park.
- A Brooklyn woman was arrested for leaving three children, including one 9 months old, unattended in a car while she went shopping at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Nassau County.
- A body found floating in a Long Island creek Saturday night has been identified as a Dix Hills boater who was went missing after having dinner with friends the night before.
- Newark Airport is trying to climb out of last place with its ranking among airports for flights being on-time, but things continue to move along as slowly as ever.
- Word is that CIA Director Leon Panetta has told Congress that the agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney.
- Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the death of disco on a baseball field in Chicago.
- Bruno narrowly defeated the Ice Age sequel to take the weekend box office crown, but dwindling returns indicate the film has little chance of living up to the high bar of success set by Borat.
- And the latest Smoking Gun mug shot collection features a Pi tattoo, a hitman t-shirt and a patriotic wig.
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