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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A suspicious package at 7th Ave And W 32 St in Manhattan, a missing elderly patient from Kings County Hosp in Brooklyn and a shooting on Rockaway Beach Blvd in Queens.
A Gallup poll puts President Obama's approval ratings at 49%.
Jayson Williams' plea deal was put on hold because he didn't show up in court; he's in South Carolina, after his father's recent death.
If the new operators of Tavern on the Green can't use that name, the Central Park restaurant will be known as Tavern in the Park.
A 17-year-old Staten Island high school senior, who was struck by a student driver last week outside the school, died yesterday. Her organs were donated to people in need of transplants.
After being wrongfully jail for 18 years, a New York man was finally released. Fernando Bermudez was convicted for killing another man in Union Square in 1991, but the conviction was overturned (a witness got a deal from the prosecution) last week.
Internet singing sensation-turned-tween dream Justin Bieber was at the Roosevelt Island Mall and his appearance caused chaos.
Rachael Ray is cool with Martha Stewart saying that she's not as great a cook as Martha.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on November 20, 2009 6:48 PM

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Emerald08

I love Rachel Ray, I guess she is on the right track in terms of her career.

Laura0909

Whoa 18 years in jail? I guess even lots of moolah cant repair the damage being done by the system. Imagine how his life was been inside the jail and to think that he was wrongly locked up. Thats' kind of sad.