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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A male stabbed on Hillside Ave in Queens, a carjacking on Boston Rd in the Bronx and "Esu Req To Open A Fence In Regards To A BURGLARY" in Brooklyn.
  • Here's another one for the "politician who mixes personal with private" file: Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) nominated his girlfriend for a U.S. Attorney position. But now he's withdrawn her nomination because they are living together.
  • The police are looking for a pervert who forcibly touched an 8-year-old girl at a Queens public library last Saturday afternoon!
  • A Costa Rican woman, who allegedly helped her boyfriend kill the son of a prominent newspaper executive, is suing the NJ jail holding her—because they didn't detect her breast cancer soon enough.
  • More about the beloved Brooklyn couple whose home was destroyed in a fire. The couple, who closed their dry cleaning business when their rent was raised from $2,500 to $6,500, had collected photographs from customers over the years, but the fire damaged the photos.
  • A teen was shot dead near his home in the Red Hook East Houses when he went to the corner store. Friends tell the News that he "spent all his free time at home or at friends' homes, and avoided the streets."
  • A report on the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting shows that administrators let their families know about a gunman 80 minutes before a campus-wide e-mail went out.
  • And three Queens students are in the running for the $100,000 Siemens Competition in Math, Sciene and Technology at NYU today.
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