If you'd like a heartwarming story for your afternoon, read how a dog found wandering in Queens is now training to be on the K-9 Unit of the NY State Police. Found when he was tied up in Kissena Park, Duke the dog made such an impression at Brooklyn Animal Care & Control that shelter operations manager pegged him as being perfect for the K-9 Unit. The state police, who have adopted a stray dog for K-9 from Keller before, are interested, so Duke is bulking up and getting ready for the test. Go, shelter animals! more ›

A 73 year old woman was attached by a 22 year old man while she was practicing tai chi at Kissena Park in Queens. Robert McKeon punched and then dragged the woman to some bushes yesterday morning and tried to rape her. Other parkgoers had called the police, who arrested McKeon after a chase, finding his boxers and sneakers along the way; McKeon was charged with "assault, unlawful imprisonment, rape, resisting arrest, harassment and marijuana possession." Parkgoers were stunned, with one saying, "I'm shocked that it was attempted rape. We never had any perverts in the parks," and City Councilman John Liu called the attack "mind-boggling." The NY Post reports McKeon is the son of a firefighter, and the Daily News says he has no criminal record. more ›

At 11 a.m. the temperature had reached the forecasted high of 70 degrees. Time to update the forecast. The Weather Service is now predicting an afternoon high temperature of 75 to 80 degrees, with the higher temperatures a bit to our west in New Jersey. The newly re-designed AccuWeather web site says we'll get up to 73. Tomorrow will be a bit cooler and Wednesday should be summerlike. A cold front and shift in circulation will cool things off after Wednesday, but we've had a fine run, haven't we? more ›

And in yet another attempt to keep a dead mother's apartment, a man told housing authorities his mom was down South, to keep a $170/month apartment in the Bronx. The Daily News interpreted it as "the woman was south - 6 feet under, in a grave."
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