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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A serious MVA at 12th Ave & West 54th, a shooting on Dekalb Ave in Brooklyn and an armed robbery on Elder Ave in the Bronx.
- Over 100 firefighters responded to a fire that started in the airshaft of a Greenwich Village apartment building.
- The pastor of a NJ church has been working with authorities to help Indonesian immigrants avoid detention and deportation. One churchgoer who was upset immigrants take away jobs admitted, "As a Christian, I have to remember that Mary, the mother of Jesus, had to flee their homeland."
- Forget Prince Charles—Queen Elizabeth has apparently made Prince Williams a "Shadow King."
- J.C. Penney's CEO is happy with their new Midtown Manhattan store's performance, "It’s already tracking to be our largest-volume store within its first year."
- The NYPD is assisting Jersey City police in trying to locate the missing wife of a FDNY official.
- Thai authorities seized tons of weapons—"including rocket-propelled grenades, shoulder-launched rockets and tubes that may be missile components"— on a plane from North Korea bound for Sri Lanka (though the final destination is unknown).
- A drag queen pageant is headed back to Atlantic City.
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