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From the Gothamist Newsmap: An attempted sexual assault at Fulton St & Classon Ave in Brooklyn, a motor vehicle accident with a person pinned at W33 St & 11 Ave in Manhattan and a homicide at 112 St & 39 Ave in Queens.
Cloture! Senate Democrats have 60 votes needed to avoid filibuster for health care reform debate—but two holdouts say the legislation needs work.
Governor Paterson threatened to furlough state workers if the Legislature can't deal with the $3.2 billion budget.
A judge is allowing the Taxi & Limousine Commission to use taxicab lease rates to increase the number of hybrid cabs.
Rest assured, holiday travelers: Those luggage scales at area airports are accurate.
The Levi Johnston Playgirl photos are out (link is SFW).
The city will restrict those lovely front-yard driveways.
A jury says Philip Morris needs to give $300 million to a former smoker in Florida.
The former Columbia professor who found a noose on her office door and was later fired for plagiarism is suing the school again, claiming "academic lynching."