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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A person shot at Gates & Marcus Garvey in Brooklyn, a perp search at Newberry Ave & Wilson Street on Staten Island, and a serious assault at 117 St & 3rd Ave in Manhattan.
- For Republican candidates running for city office, it's lonely and frustrating.
- Governor Paterson signed a new child protection law named after Nixzmary Brown: "The law increases the sentences for an adult convicted of torturing a child, changing the maximum sentence to life in prison."
- A Staten Island woman was arrested after driving 10 blocks with the repo man on her hood (he was trying to repossess her car, natch).
- The naked body of a Queens man was found under a mattress in his Jackson Heights apartment.
- Alicia Silverstone thinks milk is for fatties.
- The Georgia restaurant owner who is using the N-word in a billboard complaining about Obama's health care reform? He says he's used the N-word his whole life, so there.
- Blago will be a reality star—the disgraced Illinois governor has signed up for Celebrity Apprentice, which means a tear in the time-space-bad hair continuum may occur.
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