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Extra Extra: Jimmy McMillan Doesn't Care About Rent Anymore?
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Ben Yakas
Published May 14, 2011
Modified May 15, 2011
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- Katie Couric’s final CBS Evening News broadcast will be May 19.
- According to the WSJ, men's swimsuits are getting shorter (not so for basketball shorts, though).
- A Pennsylvania tattoo artist is now facing 195 sex crime charges after more than a dozen alleged victims came forward.
- The daughter of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno had a plush no-show SUNY job.
- Beloved karate-expert Jimmy McMillan thinks gasoline prices are too high, but doesn't seem to care that the rent is too high anymore.
- A Bronx man who told two men to stop their argument went and killed one of them when they told him to "mind his own business."
- The largest meat purveyor left in the Meatpacking District is moving to Jersey City.
- An LIRR contract worker allegedly unleashed a high-powered hose on a dog, leaving the animal with injuries to its eye, neck and face.
- While on vacation on the Spanish island Tenerife, a British woman was attacked and beheaded at a grocery store by a man who claimed he was a "prophet of God."
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