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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A male shot on Fordham Road in the Bronx, a fatal MVA on Nevins at Schermerhorn in Brooklyn and a bicycle struck at 6 Av & 17 St in Manhattan.
- A hiker who fell 60 feet off a cliff in Connecticut was identified as 19-year-old Brooklyn resident Jared Drabiszczak. He is in critical condition.
- Now that mayoral control has passed, it's time for the Board of Education to die again.
- Plaxico Burress will be formally charged with gun possession on August 20. His lawyer claims he won't say anything until then.
- Senator Chuck Schumer's chief counsel Preet Bharara was sworn in as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Former U.S. Attorneys for the district include Robert Morgenthau and Rudy Giuliani.
- An appeals court shot down the NY Times' attempt to unseal the government's wiretaps of former governor Eliot Spitzer's conversations. It's unclear if the case will go further.
- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton takes a moment for some levity during her Africa trip.
- And Willie Garson, known to Sex and the City fans as best gay friend Stanford Blatch, has adopted a son.
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