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Movie Set In Rockaway Depicts Worst Of Peninsula
By Miriam Rosenberg
      It's violent and it reinforces the worst that people believe about Rockaway - gangs, poverty and murder.
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Clinton Sets Bill To Service Wounded Warriors
      Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced that she has introduced legislation to support the family caregivers of servicemembers suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
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Bell Family Receiving Threats Via Phone And E-mail
Paultre: Verdict Is Mind-boggling
By Miriam Rosenberg
      Nicole Paultre-Bell's father is claiming the family received a phone call originating from a police detective's union office harassing them just hours after a judge handed down a not guilty verdict for the three detectives accused of criminal charges in the death of his daughter's fiancé, Sean Bel...
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Addabbo Criticizes NYPD Starting Salaries
      City Council Member, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. cosponsored a Resolution in the Council that denounces the starting salaries for New York City police officers. The current starting salary is $25,100, making the base salary of a New York City police officer one of the lowest in the country.
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Local Pols Call For 'Healing And Justice'
Want Feds To Take On Bell Case
By Nicholas Briano
      The Sean Bell verdict, which was handed down last Friday, produced strong, albeit peaceful reaction throughout the Far Rockaway area, where Bell lived with his fiancée.
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Smith: Legislative Response To Bell Verdict
      State Senate Democratic Leader Malcolm A. Smith has called a joint meeting between the State Senate Democratic Conference and Assembly Members to take legislative action on police policies and procedures. "There is no question that there is a need for a legislative response to past shootings and ...
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Rite Aide Manager Busted in Melee
By Howard Schwach
      The manager of the new Rite Aide Pharmacy surrendered to detectives at the 100 Precinct last Monday, and was promptly arrested for his part in the melee that took place in the store's parking lot on April 24. Sources identified the arrested man as Mike Persaud, the manager of the new facility loc...
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