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  • New York Army National Guard’s 69th Infantry Regiment's headquarters lost electricity and heat during Sandy, but they had a guardian angel bring some generators: "We were dead in the water until Victoria’s Secret showed up."
  • Police say that a Verizon Wireless employee in Florida stole naked photos contained on the phone of a female customer, then shared them with friends.
  • The Daily News joined the NY Post in endorsing Mitt Romney, aka that guy no one has heard from in the last week.
  • Wow: this woman broke into a home, washed some coffee cups, took out the trash, vacuumed and dusted inside the house, then left a bill written on a napkin that included her phone number.
  • New Orleans 4th graders wrote love letters to NYers affected by Hurricane Sandy.
  • Chris Christie can't stop saying nice things about Obama: "If the president of United States comes here and he's willing to help my people and he does it then I'm gonna say nice things about him because he's earned it...When somebody does a good job, they deserve credit."
  • A Staten Island man was arrested for impersonating a Red Cross worker and attempting to burglarize Sandy evacuated homes.
  • Dogs who chase their tails may not just be happy to see you—they may have OCD.
  • The Brooklyn Nets have a weird new mascot that kind of looks like a rejected Iron Man suit.
  • The new album from Thom Yorke's sideband, Atoms For Peace, is reportedly titled Amok and being released on January 28th.
  • And finally, here's a compilation of Hurricane Sandy TV bloopers: