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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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