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TRISTATE


BODY OF MISSING OFFICER FOUND NEAR BRIDGE


JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Divers recovered the body of a police officer yesterday afternoon near the drawbridge from which he and another officer plunged to their deaths on Christmas night. After family members said a private goodbye in the back of an ambulance, the flagdraped body of Officer Robert Nguyen was driven slowly over the bridge as scores of police officers and firefighters stood and saluted. The impromptu funeral cortege wound its way slowly into the city, past the Emergency Services Bureau headquarters where he and partner Shawn Carson worked, and into Newark where an autopsy was to be performed.


– Associated Press


CITYWIDE


FIREFIGHTERS APPROVE NEW CONTRACT


The city’s 8,900 firefighters overwhelmingly approved a new 50-month contract with the city, their union announced yesterday – although the agreement will expire at the end of July 2006 because they had worked without a deal for more than three years.The new agreement provides a 17.5% pay increase retroactive to 2002, when the last deal expired for the Uniformed Firefighters Association.


– Associated Press


ACTOR ACCUSED IN OFFICER SLAYING SAYS HE’S SORRY


A young “Sopranos” actor accused in the slaying of an off-duty police officer said in a jailhouse interview he’s sorry and didn’t know his alleged burglary accomplice was carrying a gun. Lillo Brancato Jr., who appeared opposite Robert De Niro in “A Bronx Tale” and more recently was in several episodes of “The Sopranos,” was charged with murder and other counts in the December 10 shooting of Daniel Enchautegui during a gunfight.


– Associated Press


OFFICIALS SEE RISE IN REPORTS OF FLU


Cover your mouth and get your flu shot – city officials say flu season is upon us. According to the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, visits to emergency facilities by patients suffering influenza increased this week, the traditional warning for the onset of flu season.The director of surveillance for the Health Department’s bureau of communicable disease, Don Weiss, said the number was about 25% higher than the baseline. During the flu season’s peak in January or February, he added, there could be 50% to 60% more flu patients than normal. “There are potentially thousands of New Yorkers spreading the flu,” the Health Department’s commissioner, Thomas Freiden, said in a statement yesterday. “Each year too many New Yorkers get sick, and sadly as many as 2,500 die from the flu.” Most of those who die of the flu are people over 65 years old. Dr. Frieden urged New Yorkers, especially senior citizens and the chronically ill, to get flu shots.


– Staff Reporter of the Sun


STATEN ISLAND


PROBATION OFFICER RECOMMENDS LENIENT SENTENCES IN FERRY CRASH


A top federal probation official has recommended that two defendants in the Staten Island ferry crash case receive punishments more lenient than sentencing guidelines suggest, saying that the “lion’s share” of the blame for the accident rests with management at the Department of Transportation.The chief probation officer for the Eastern District of New York,Tony Garoppolo, recommended in two memos to a Brooklyn federal judge that ferry pilot Richard Smith be sentenced to three months in prison and ferry supervisor Patrick Ryan get six months.


– Associated Press

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