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YWN Tri-State Area Morning News Roundup 6/01/08


ywn logo.jpg*The NYPD must release an internal, electronic database of hundreds of thousands of street stops of pedestrians to civil rights advocates who want to analyze it for evidence of racial bias, a Manhattan judge has ruled.

*Workers used two mobile cranes Saturday to complete removal of pieces of the huge tower crane that collapsed on an Upper East Side street, killing two men and severely damaging a nearby building.

*A scaffold holding three painters at a Bayonne industrial complex collapsed Saturday, killing two of them and seriously injuring the other.

*Somerset County authorities said it’s the biggest indictment in the county’s history: 407 counts charging 15 defendants in an interstate racketeering and money-laundering case. The group defrauded banks in NJ, Pennsylvania, NY, Connecticut and Ohio. The group obtained payroll or business checks, scanned them into a computer system and reprinted them with new payee names and check numbers, officials said.

*Today is the Annual Boro Park Hatzolah Auction! Click on the following link to purchase tickets, viewing schedules – and support this amazing organization! http://www.hatzolahbp.org/?AID=CLSHG

*The NYPD is investigating a deadly police shooting in the Bronx involving an off-duty officer. Apparently, a woman who lives on East 201st Street was attacked by a man with a gun while she was walking in her building with her 3-year-old daughter. Her husband, an off-duty police officer, heard the commotion, went outside and shot the suspected attacker.

*Two U.S. Army parachutists were injured on Saturday at McGuire Air Force Base after colliding in mid-air during the 2008 McGuire Air Expo, officials said. Both of the injured were conscious after the incident, officials said.

*TRI-STATE WEATHER: Today: Sunny, warm, and breezy, High: 81. Tonight: Becoming mostly clear, cool breeze. Low: 60.

(YWN Desk)



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