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This is a group assignment I finished in my public affairs reporting class about less than a half hour ago. Here is an excerpt: Crime rates drop statewide; Paterson credits Operation IMPACT By Casey Quinlan, Dana Morris, Michael McDonald, Regina Rivers and Elizabeth Cross, Legislative Gazette contributors According to new information from Operation IMPACT, a program operated by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, crime in New York state has dropped 4.7 percent in the first half of 2009 compared to the same time period last year. The most notable decreases in statewide crime have been murder, rape, car theft and robbery. The drop is fueled mostly by lower crime in New York City, which has decreased by 6.6 percent, while crime outside the city decreased by 3.1 percent. New York City, which has the highest number of murders in the state, saw its murder rate drop by 19.8 percent. Robbery, another prevalent crime in New York City, has decreased by 15.6 percent. However, rape cr...

Yeah, so I'm definitely going to see this movie. The rehearsal movie is 100% much of a better way to remember Michael Jackson instead of that horrific lifeless picture of him that was blasted onto newspapers and entertainment news shows. For the record, 2 weeks, really? I hope SONY is considering making a DVD of the movie. It's been three month's since Jackson's passing and the world keeps spinning, people still have to go to work, school, dentist appointments and take care of a whole bunch of other obligations to tend to. Yet the tributes keep flowing and his music keeps playing. If you're like that senator King who is sick of hearing about Jackson, change the channel, turn off the music or the computer; talking ignorant nonsense on YouTube is just flat out ridiculous on his part. It really makes me wonder, did anyone or does anyone consider the traumatic mental anguish of his kids? His family doesn't still shed tears because their brother, son, uncle is gone? ...