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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: Possible radiation at Mulberry & Worth St in Manhattan, a barricaded EDP at Prospect Pl & Underhill Ave in Brooklyn and a vehicle pursuit at Olympia & Midland Is on Staten Island.
  • Today was the funeral for the 11-year-old girl killed in a car crash on Sunday; her friend's allegedly drunk mom was driving.
  • The Daily News wonders if Council Speaker Quinn's reluctance to endorse Bill Thompson for mayor thus far means her days as Speaker are numbered.
  • The Post gets a kick of how court papers describe David Letterman as "Client #1".
  • Wow, former Senator Al D'Amato, 72 years old, is a father again: He and his 43-year-old wife had a daughter this afternoon.
  • After facing a lawsuit from white firefighters claiming discrimination, now a black firefighter has sued the New Haven Fire Department for discrimination.
  • A TV critic said he got a Fox News PR piece hyping Glenn Beck's swine flu hysteria segment. The PR people claimed they never sent it—okay, maybe they didn't, but it still came from their marketing department.
  • A NJ couple raised $33,000 for the Special Olympics in a competition—and are getting a $100,000 wedding as the prize.
  • And, yes, that video of the baby in a stroller being hit by a train in Australia is really scary.

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Ok, some of the notices regarding police incidents should be more investigated before posted. RADIATION on Mulberry street??? WTF?

The other day there was this thing on the police scanners about cops looking for middle eastern guys in the subway with wires and stuff???

i'm still trying to get past the fact that D'Amato's trophy wife calls him "Daddy".

i agree - that shit is annoying. they're basically blind items and you can't find the info anywhere else.

Letterman is certainly old enough to be "Client #1".

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