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- Although Madison Square Park was evacuated, it turns out there was no threat from a suspicious package that arrived at Credit Suisse.
- Surprisingly, kids really don't appreciate bad Christmas presents.
- Four guards have been charged for assaulting an inmate at Attica prison in August.
- It's official: Christopher Meloni will be a shirtless vampire on the next season of True Blood.
- A Long Island mother has been accused of driving drunk with her two young children in the backseat.
- NBC's Chuck Todd gives the middle finger on camera.
- Two sanitation workers rescued five children from a burning building yesterday.
- Chicago man throws boiling water on dog after it pees on floor.
- Paul Rudd will star as Wesley in a staged reading of The Princess Bride.
- Pulling a Bloomberg: Mikhail Prokhorov wants to buy a media company before running for President.
- And finally, here are the so-called best cat memes of 2011.

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