Early Addition

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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A gas leak at 79 St & Amst Ave in Manhattan, a foot pursuit at 208 St & 99 Ave in Queens, and an AI job at 4 Av & 55 St in Brooklyn.
According to the Washington Post, man suspected in the Fort Hood shootings, Major Nidal Hasan, had "intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action."
The slur "spic" was debated by poets at El Museo del Barrio, who also discussed other racial epithets.
Suffolk County police arrested a man for driving drunk with his 5-year-old daughter (who was not in a car seat) in the car as well.
Two men were indicted on hate crime charges for assaulting a transgender woman in Jackson Heights this past summer.
With just weeks left in office, NJ Governor Jon Corzine signed nearly two dozen bills into law.
Heidi Klum, who surprised the audience at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show by walking the runway, explained, "I loved my outfit, so I thought, why not?”