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Early Addition: Long Island youth sports referees keep getting screamed at. Now there's a ref shortage.
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Published Jun 13, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where we could soon be in for a Full-Sized G Train Autumn.
Here's what else is happening:
- The Manhattan D.A. has dropped all charges against seven CUNY students and faculty who were arrested at a pro-Palestinian encampment in April.
- Police have arrested a second teenager and charged him with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old in SoHo back in May.
- "Sometimes I go home and I’m like, 'Why am I doing this?'": Long Island youth sports leagues are struggling to hire and retain referees because of all the verbal abuse they take from players, coaches and parents.
- Mayor Adams complimented a Fox News intern's "summer body" at a press conference this week.
- Peapack & Gladstone, New Jersey, has decided it has no other option than to call in federal authorities to gas the geese that have been allegedly terrorizing a local park.
- The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the last living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre who were seeking reparations for the attack, where a white mob — along with local officials — burned down Black homes and businesses and killed as many as 300 people.
- Mecox Bay, a Southampton beach surrounded by multi-million dollar homes, has tested among the top 10 beaches in the U.S. for high levels of fecal matter in the water, according a Surfrider Foundation study.
- Here's an oral history of the "Vote For Pedro" t-shirt from "Napoleon Dynamite," which went on to become the best-selling shirt in Hot Topic history.
- And finally, oh hey:
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