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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A jumper up on E 85th St in Manhattan, a CO incident on Henry Hudson Pkwy in the Bronx, and a MVA at Harding Expy & Bell Blvd in Queens.
  • Fourteen people were charged in the widening insider trading probe. The U.S Attorney said they were "common criminals” who took a “page from drug-dealer handbooks."
  • A scalper selling tickets outside Yankee Stadium tried to bribe a cop with tickets.
  • The woman who killed her abusive father spoke to the Daily News and said she didn't mean to kill him, but worried about her nieces, whom he was taking back to Liberia, "There was no way I could let it continue. I did it because I couldn't let my sister's children go through that."
  • A lawyer was sued for a frivolous countersuit.
  • NYU's attempt to regulate poopy dogs does not pass muster with the local preservationists.
  • Wow, here's yet another reason to hate insufferably pretentious posturing Fiery Furnace guy Matthew Friedberger!
  • There are lotsa laffs to be had making up captions for the White House Flickr pool.
  • The great Village music impresario Art D'Lugoff has died at 85.

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Friedlander, while insufferably pretentious, is correct with his assessment of Radiohead.

Fines for not cleaning up or allowing your dog to go anywhere off the curb should be raised.
It sucks when morons let their dogs pee all over the fucking sidewalk and then everyone else has to walk through it.

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