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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A car vs. scaffold on Franklin Ave At Wallabout St in Brooklyn, an overturned auto at 34 St & The FDR in Manhattan, and an evidence search on Astoria Blvd in Queens.
Smoke in the cockpit forced a Boston-bound Delta flight back to Laguardia Airport earlier today.
Governor Paterson promises to name a video gambling machine vendor for the Aqueduct Racetrack.
Waterfront property in Jamaica, Queens originally meant for private development will now become a park.
It's palindrome day, datewise in the U.S.: 01.02.2010 (it'll be palindrome day in Europe on February 1.)
A Bronx church that has been defaced with "gang talks, devil talk, and trash talks," trashed and burned soldiers on. Its youth group leader is still amazed, "We never had any disputes with anybody on the block. Especially anybody in a gang. We never had any threats."
The Danish authorities say they thwarted a plot to kill the 75-year-old Danish artist who once drew a cartoon of the Prophet Moahmmed. A "28-year-old Somalia man...armed with an ax and a knife" was arrested.
The rapper Bow Wow Tweeted that he was drunk while driving his Lamborghini.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on January 2, 2010 1:10 PM

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inoyourider

Don't know which makes me want to vomit more- killing a 75yo man over a cartoon, or how dumb Lil Bow Wow is...

Janet

Delta Air Lines just can't seem to catch a break. It was just yesterday that a Northwest flight was diverted to Tennessee on its way to Orlando from Detroit over a suspicious package that turned out to be a Christmas ornament.

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