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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A fire at 5th Ave & W 20 St in Manhattan, a person shot on Boston Rd in the Bronx and a bank robbery at Fulton St in Brooklyn.
  • A Staten Island high school student was critically injured when she was struck by a fellow student's car while walking outside the school.
  • Former State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was on the receiving end of a judge's wrath when Bruno made a remark during his corruption trial. The judge told him, "For once in your life, you don’t control something — I do. You ever do what you just did in the presence of that jury again, which is question any of my rulings, and I will take measures to make sure you don’t repeat that."
  • They're making a big-budget bike messenger movie in NYC, and it's not a sequel to Quicksilver!
  • Mayor Bloomberg hears about Brooklyn's booming restaurant scene from his friends—"Time and time again, when I say, 'Where do you want to go to have dinner?' Friends who've come from out of town pick restaurants in Brooklyn, and that is really different... hey didn't used to before. Maybe one or two in [Brooklyn] Heights, but Brooklyn has really come back." Oh, and he was planning on having dinner in the borough.
  • Acorn is suing the government for being unfairly targeted and losing its federal funding.
  • ABC News has offered George Stephanopoulos the chance to host Good Morning, America.
  • Sgt. Kimberly Munley may have shot accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hassan, but so did fellow cop Sgt. Mark Todd.
  • The NYPD cop who robbed banks in Pennsylvania and NYC was sentenced to another 78 months for his Big Apple robberies.

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Sgt. Kimberly Munley may have shot accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hassan, but so did fellow cop Sgt. Mark Todd.

i can already envision the movie that spike lee will make about this

George Snuffalupicus would be a great choice for GMA. Of course it would open up a slot, allowing ABC to woo Glenn Beck away from Fox so that he can fuck a pig every Sunday morning on television.

The Judge should've thrown Bruno in Jail for contempt without a warning, but a good thrashing is just as good.

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