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Man Shot To Death In Queens Home

Police are looking for suspects in connection with the shooting death of a man in Rochdale Village section of Queens on Friday. Read more: NY1

Four Police Officers Wounded In Shootout With Brooklyn Hostage Suspect

Four police officers were hospitalized with injuries after a shootout in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn early this morning.

They were responding to a call of an armed man threatening movers at an apartment building at 3301 Nostrand Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Read more: NY1

Park Officials Plan To Fix Up Vandalized Far Rockaway Playground By Summer

The city Parks Department says vandalism will not prevent it from opening a Far Rockaway playground this summer, and local residents are relieved.

With the damages totalling more than $100,000, many Far Rockaway residents feared the city would halt construction on the Beach 29th playground, but the Parks Department says it will soon be back on schedule. Read more: NY1

Mike Wallace, famed CBS newsman, dead at 93

Mike Wallace, a game show host and tobacco pitchman who went on to personify the hard-nosed and often skeptical journalism of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” died last Saturday after a long illness. He was 93. Read more: Daily News

Ire at home ‘free’ tenant

The rent is too damn late!

Queens landlord Debra Samuels says her only tenant hasn’t paid the $1,590 rent in more than a year — putting her two-family home in jeopardy. Read more: New York Post