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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A shooting at 65th St & 21st Ave in Brooklyn, an EDP on Shorefront Parkway in Queens, and
- Mayor Bloomberg won't endorse NJ Governor Corzine, but know who will? "Omar" from The Wire, aka Michael Kenneth Williams!
- Some New Yorkers don't realize that City Comptroller Bill Thompson is black.
- A publicist apparently hacked into four other people's voicemail accounts over 1,000 times. Two of the victims were people who dated her ex-boyfriends.
- Oprah will get mavericky with Sarah Palin next month.
- A former Queens hospital worker is fighting to get his job back—he says he was unfairly targeted by a higher-up, who claimed his work contained inconsistencies like using "09" instead of "2009."
- The Swiss still consider filmmaker Roman Polanski a flight risk.
- Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas advises President Obama and his administration not to bother fighting Fox News.
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