Now that Karen Handel has stepped down from the Susan G. Komen Foundation, it seems that she can get back into Georgia Republican politics with her head held up high. One Georgia-based GOP strategist tells the AP , “It’s kind of hard to criticize her now. She comes out of this with some really strong bona fides with pro-life voters across the state.” Right, the pro-lifers who made an issue of her… being “barren,” “infertile” and “desperate.” [ more › ]
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Ex-Komen VP Karen Handel Finally Makes Pro-Life Crazies Happy
Next Wednesday the City Council will hold hearings on the NYPD’s handling of accident investigations, with a special focus on crashes involving cyclists and pedestrians. Among those expected to speak is the mother of Mathieu Lefevre , a cyclist who was killed by a flatbed truck driver one night in Williamsburg last October. The Lefevre family had to sue the NYPD to get basic information about the investigation and find out why the driver was not charged with a hit-and-run. Now Lefevre’s mother Erika is expected to make the trip from her home in Canada to demand accountability from the NYPD. [ more › ]
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Slain Cyclist’s Mother To Testify At City Council Hearing On NYPD Crash Investigations
The woman accused of donning a cat mask and robbing stores in Manhattan and Queens was convicted today. However, Shana Spalding yelled , ” I’m not the Catwoman ,” as she was led from court. [ more › ]
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"I Am Not The Catwoman," Wails Convicted Robber
For instance, here’s how the AP describes the maps, “Among the proposed [Senate] districts are six now represented by Democrats in Queens which would be reduced to three, forcing potential two-way battles by incumbent Democrats in one district in the shape of a lobster.” [ more › ]
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Hello, Gerrymandering: NY’s Sucky Proposed Redistricting Maps Will Probably Get Vetoed
A police officer on duty in the 111th Precinct in Queens killed himself last night on 211th Street in Hollis Hills. And the police officer apparently had been arguing with his girlfriend on the phone moments before. [ more › ]
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On-Duty Cop Kills Himself In Queens
Investigators say that a father and son found dead in a Queens home were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning . The bodies of Kuo-Kung Chen, 66, and his 29-year-old son Aaron were found yesterday when the older man didn’t arrive to baby-sit his granddaughter . [ more › ]
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Two Dead In Queens Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
This week, Stephen Colbert handed over the reigns of his super PAC—Citizens for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow—to good buddy Jon Stewart so that he could focus on exploring a possible run for “president of the United States of South Carolina.” Almost immediately, The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC started buying up air time in South Carolina—and today, they released their first attack ad , which ripped Mitt Romney over his “corporations are people” comment. And the whole thing is narrated by John Lithgow! Watch below. [ more › ]
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Video: Colbert Super PAC Rips Mitt Romney, The Serial (Corporation) Killer
The older brother of a Dallas Cowboys wide receiver was shot in Queens last night . Calvin Ogletree, 25, brother of Cowboys receiver Kevin Ogletree, was shot in front of the luxury car rental shop he opened last summer in St. Albans. “I heard one or two pops,” a witness who works nearby told the News. “I didn’t know if it was gunshots. Then I saw some excitement. I got a streak of fear. I saw a bunch of people running and screaming.” [ more › ]
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Brother Of Dallas Cowboys Wide Receiver Shot In Queens
Last October, there was shock and outraged after two 12-year-old boys tossed a shopping cart from a fourth story walkway and hit a woman , who was left in critical condition and a medically-induced coma . The victim, Marion Salmon Hedges, a real estate broker and active volunteer at numerous organizations, had come to the East Harlem shopping complex to buy Halloween candy for needy children. Now, the Post reports that Hedges “bears no ill will” towards the boys. [ more › ]
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Woman Forgives Kids Who Nearly Killed Her With Shopping Cart
Police are investigating a series of firebombings in Queens late last night as possible bias crimes. Between 8 p.m. and 10:15, four locations within two miles of each other in Jamaica, Queens were hit by Molotov cocktails. One of the locations was a private residence on 107th Avenue that caught fire after the burning bottles struck it, and it took more than 60 firefighters to bring it under control, the Times reports . Another target was an Islamic center on the Van Wyck Expressway. [ more › ]
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Starbucks Bottles Used As Molotov Cocktails In Possible Hate Crimes In Queens