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A suspect was injured in an overnight shootout with police during a high-speed chase that ended in the St. Albans section of Queens. Around 3:30 a.m., Nassau County police began pursuit of the green van that matched the description of the getaway car from a home invasion robbery reported while it was in progress in Elmont, Long Island. Suspects fired at police and twice hit the cop car, but neither officer inside was wounded. A police official told the News, "Shots started to come out of the van toward our officers. There were exchanges over possibly two miles." Soon after crossing the border into Queens, the van was sidelined with a blowout, leading police apprehending four suspects, one of whom has been shot in the arm in the crossfire. Inside the van, cops found a semiautomatic rifle and a revolver. Two other cops were injured in an accident while responding to the scene. None of the reported injuries were life-threatening.

Car, Fleeing Cops, Hits Three Pedestrians in the Bronx

Three teenagers were struck by a speeding car in the Van Nest section of the Bronx. The teens, ages 15, 16, and 17, are hospitalized and police are searching for the car's occupants, who fled on foot.

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Sidewalks aren't only for pedestrians - they seem to be made for cars after they are hit by other out of control cars. Yesterday afternoon, an out of control Lexus hit two parked cars after spinning across two lanes on Lexington Avenue near East 62nd Street. The parked cars then hit a pedestrian on the sidewalk. The NY Post says the victim, a Venezulan tourist, was "slumped across the trunk of the car, her legs dangling above the ground." The woman was admitted to New York Hospital in serious condition, but was upgraded to stable. The police did not press any charges yet, but the cause of the crash is still unknown. Oh, and the Lexus caught fire.

Two hit-and-run incidents in Brooklyn and Queens have left two men dead this weekend. The Brooklyn accident was in the Carnarsie section - stolen car chase/drag race, where the cars' speeds were around 70-80 MPH, resulted in a man riding a mountain bike on Avenue L getting hit. A witness told the NY Post that the stolen car dragged the bike for a while and another witness said, "The guy went up in the air, and the bike went up in the air, and the bike came down and smashed the whole windshield." The biker did not an identification on him, and the stolen Ford Probe was abandoned (the other car was driven by a friend, and police believe the Probe's driver left in the friend's car).

A few nights ago, there seems to have a really nutty car chase involved a minivan with a family in it. WABC 7 says the chase started in the LES, when police wanted to pull over a a blue minivan that hit a couple cars at Essex and Delancey. But the driver decided to keep driving, heading over the Williamsburg Bride, until he crashed into more cars at South 5th and Havemeyer! It sounds like a bad movie (or funny comedy) - luckily the injuries suffered by eight people (six from the minivan, two cops) were not too serious.

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Felix Salmon, Journalist

Our favorite Baldwin brother is Daniel Baldwin (reasons: starred in Homicide; does not own annoying 'hip' restaurants; does not bother us with his political views; does not seem very boring; is the "fat" Baldwin), who is now going to star in a new cable series called "The Strange Detective". The show, according to the Hollywood Reporter, is about a "San Francisco detective who, during a car chase on the Golden Gate bridge, plunges into the ocean; he survives, but begins to experience 'rips in time,' having visions of events that have occurred in the places he visits, which are sometimes related to the cases he is working." Which makes us wonder about Baldwin's "cocaine psychosis" at the Plaza Hotel a couple years ago, where apparently the police found a "naked, bloodied, incoherent Baldwin 'acting irrationally'" with a porn film at full blast no less, and whether Baldwin experiences any rips in time from that experience.

Five men in a white Toyota SUV were involved in a stolen car chase and finally arrested in Brooklyn, with one passenger in possession of 50 bags of crack.

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