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  • May 2008

    • 8 Shot in Harlem Rampage

      New York Daily News  |  May 27, 08 6:00 AM CDT

      8 Shot in Harlem Rampage

      (Newser) - At least seven young people are in the hospital with gunshot wounds after a shooter went on a rampage in Harlem, the New York Daily News reports. Cops believe the gunman was taking revenge after being jumped at a basketball tournament earlier in the day. The victims, all but one teenagers, were wounded within a three-block radius. The gunman is still at large. More »

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      New York City  • shooting  • gunman  • Harlem  • shooting rampage  • revenge  • gunshot wounds

    • NYC Plans Organ-Recovery Ambulance

      Washington Post  |  May 24, 08 10:45 AM CDT

      NYC Plans Organ-Recovery Ambulance

      (Newser) - New York City is planning a “rapid-organ-recovery ambulance” that would collect the bodies of victims of sudden deaths to be used for organ transplants, hoping to ease a pressing need for donors, the Washington Post reports. But the idea has sparked controversy among health and bioethics experts, concerned over what it might mean for the role of emergency health care. More »

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      New York City  • health care  • organ transplants  • organ donations  • ambulance

    • Toad Venom Aphrodisiac Kills NYC Man

      Associated Press  |  May 23, 08 9:25 PM CDT

      Toad Venom Aphrodisiac Kills NYC Man

      (Newser) - New York City officials warned people today to avoid a toad venom-based aphrodisiac that recently killed a man, the AP reports. The illegal love drug, often sold as Jamaican Stone or Chinese Rock, is harmful whether ingested or applied to the skin. "There is no definitely safe way to use it,” one official said. Similar drugs have killed at least five New Yorkers since the early 1990s. More »

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      New York City  • public health  • accidental death  • frogs  • aphrodisiacs

    • Silda Steps Out of Hiding

      New York Daily News  |  May 22, 08 10:30 AM CDT

      Silda Steps Out of Hiding

      (Newser) - While the fictionalized "Law & Order" version of her husband's infamous sex scandal was airing on NBC last night, Silda Wall Spitzer emerged from 2 months of self-imposed exile to attend the Manhattan benefit for Children for Children, the Daily News reports. The wife of prostitute-patronizing former New York governor Eliot Spitzer launched the foundation in 1996. More »

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      New York City  • Eliot Spitzer  • sex scandal  • charity  • Silda Wall Spitzer  • benefits

    • Groom-Slaying Cops Face Disciplinary Hearings

      Reuters  |  May 21, 08 10:27 AM CDT

      Groom-Slaying Cops Face Disciplinary Hearings

      (Newser) - The New York cops who were acquitted last month after firing more than 50 bullets at an unarmed man on his wedding day will face police department disciplinary action, Reuters reports. Seven officers are on the hot seat, including the three who were cleared of criminal charges last month, and will now face internal charges mirroring those, an NYPD spokesman said yesterday. Also being called to task are one other shooter, two crime scene detectives, and their commanding officer. More »

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      New York City  • Al Sharpton  • NYPD  • police brutality  • racial tension  • Sean Bell

    • New Yorkers See a Saltier Bloomberg

      New York Times  |  May 20, 08 1:19 PM CDT

      New Yorkers See a Saltier Bloomberg

      (Newser) - In his 6 years in office, Michael Bloomberg has enjoyed a reputation as the cool, collected CEO of the Big Apple. But as setbacks have mounted and his presidential ambitions have been shelved, another side is showing: the temperamental, sometimes explosive antagonist. Bloomberg's mood is "the worst I've ever seen it," one top pol told the New York Times . More »

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      New York City  • New York  • Eliot Spitzer  • Michael Bloomberg  • mayor  • temper tantrums

    • Spitzer Scandal Hits Small Screen Tomorrow

      New York Post  |  May 20, 08 11:56 AM CDT

      Spitzer Scandal Hits Small Screen Tomorrow

      (Newser) - If disgraced New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was ever a Law & Order fan, he probably isn't anymore. Tomorrow’s ripped-from-the-headlines season finale on NBC tells a fictionalized version of the sensational sex scandal that doomed Spitzer’s political career, the New York Post reports. Actor Tom Everett Scott guest-stars as a charming governor who is caught planning a rendezvous with a hooker. More »

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      television  • New York City  • Eliot Spitzer  • sex scandal  • Law and Order

    • Owner Sues LiLo Over Lifted Mink

      Associated Press  |  May 20, 08 9:48 AM CDT

      Owner Sues LiLo Over Lifted Mink

      (Newser) - The Columbia student who claimed Lindsay Lohan swiped her $12,000 fur coat after a night at a New York club is now suing the troubled actress over the unauthorized pilfering, the AP reports. Maria Markova, 22, proved the theft with paparazzi photos of Lohan donning her golden mink and got it back after contacting LiLo’s lawyer. She seeks unspecified damages. More »

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      celebrity  • New York City  • Lindsay Lohan  • celebrity trials  • civil lawsuits  • fur

    • After Scandal, NYC Rep Won't Run Again

      Associated Press  |  May 20, 08 8:58 AM CDT

      After Scandal, NYC Rep Won't Run Again

      (Newser) - Vito Fossella, the Republican congressman whose drunk-driving bust earlier this month led to the discovery that he had a lover and child on the side, has decided not to run for reelection, the AP reports. He said today the decision was based on the need to "concentrate on healing the wounds that I have caused to my wife and family."  More »

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      New York City  • affair  • drunk driving  • love child  • political scandals  • congressman  • re-election  • Vito Fossella

    • Bird Lives! And He Does It in Fanatic Detail

      New Yorker  |  May 17, 08 6:38 PM CDT

      Bird Lives! And He Does It in Fanatic Detail

      (Newser) - A white guy from Queens may be our best link to a music rooted in black history. Phil Schapp grew up in a home full of jazz, and has hosted a radio show obsessed with the music's minutiae for decades, the New Yorker reports. He's liable to digress on Charlie Parker's pronunciation of "Okiedoke," but that's an improvement: "For the first twenty years, I was concerned about telling you absolutely everything about every tune," he said. More »

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      New York City  • music  • radio  • jazz  • Charlie Parker

    • Thanks , Carrie, You Ruined Everything

      New York Post  |  May 16, 08 7:25 PM CDT

      Thanks , Carrie, You Ruined Everything

      (Newser) - Thanks, Carrie. You and your Sex and the City gal pals have set Mr. Big-size expectations for fans who "continue to worship at the SATC altar," Sara Stewart gripes in the New York Post . Cultural fallout includes: Brunch: Men now think all female-only meals are sex gabfests. High-heels: No one sprints around Manhattan in strappy stilettos. More »

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      list  • New York City  • Sex and the City  • Sarah Jessica Parker  • Kim Cattrall  • Cynthia Nixon  • Kristin Davis

    • Stay Tuned to WN- Bleep- C

      New York Daily News  |  May 13, 08 10:45 AM CDT

      Stay Tuned to WN- Bleep- C

      (Newser) - A longtime local anchor in New York got her viewers' undivided attention during a promo last night when she said the F-word live, the New York Daily News reports. After the wrong video played as she teased the upcoming news during Medium, 28-year WNBC veteran Sue Simmons said, "What the f--- are you doing?" More »

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      New York City  • FCC  • NBC News  • local news