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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A pedestrian struck at Neptune Ave & Ocean Pkway in Brooklyn, an apparatus MVA at 14th And 3rd Ave in Manhattan, and requesting K9 to a barricaded EDP on 136 St in Queens.
- Over 130 people are dead from car bombings that targeted Iraq ministries in Baghdad.
- Daily News readers have offered their World Series tickets (if the Yankees make it, of course) to injured GI's.
- Crime is up in 20 of the city's largest parks, but this doesn't include Central Park, where crime is down 27.5%.
- Mad Men fans: How the show decided that Betty's cause would be the water tank.
- ER visits to a new emergency facility at Staten Island University Hospital have grown and there are growing pains: Some "patients sometimes lie for days on gurneys in ER hallways or between curtained partitions set up as a holding area in the old emergency room."
- With Roman Polanski awaiting possible extradition to the U.S., the LA Times looks again at the graphic testimony of his 13-year-old rape victim.
- Is the Saw franchise losing steam? Paranormal Activity was number 1 at the box office this weekend, grossing $22 million while Saw VI made just under $15 million.
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