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- Dear god, Ed Sheeran is taking a break from social media.
- An upstate man was caught smoking pot in a police-only parking space.
- Vandals reportedly defaced a 9/11 memorial on Long Island.
- How to get away with beating someone to death: be a prison guard.
- A 57-year-old woman is suing Anthropologie claiming her bosses "routinely tormented her because of her age."
- A Sunset Park principal has allegedly banned Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Pledge of Allegiance from the school.
- Someone is dropping rat poisoning in Brooklyn, killing at least one dog in Carroll Gardens so far.
- A former Seinfeld writer (and Jerry's ex-girlfriend) got married to a woman this weekend at a star-studded ceremony.
- What a former Long Island police chief arrested last week is accused of saying while beating a suspect: "I'm gonna rape your fucking mother."
- Ted Cruz leads Trump by 10 points in Iowa (and is also tweeting Flashdance videos at him).
- And finally, this is the only good video to come out of SantaCon:
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