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- Janay Rice gave ESPN her account of the night Ray Rice hit her in Atlantic City.
- A retired taxi lives in Vermont.
- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand has died at 80.
- Cops say this dumb dog was fired from the police force for, well, being too dumb.
- Porn is warping young people's brains.
- Here's a depressing but compelling long read about heroin in the suburbs of Staten Island.
- A Grand Jury decision in the Eric Garner case is coming soon.
- Homeless people and the ultra-wealthy ate together at a candlelit holiday dinner at Bartholomew's Church.
- And finally, this little girl is overjoyed at her birthday present:
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