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Today's Top Stories Sunday, December 09, 2012 ANOTHER NFL PLAYER KILLED: Dallas Cowboys linebacker charged with intoxication manslaughter after teammate dies in car accident Dallas Cowboys practice-squad linebacker Jerry Brown (r.) was killed in a one-car accident Saturday and teammate Josh Brent (l.) was charged with intoxication manslaughter. COPS IN THE CROSSHAIRS: A year of danger for NYPD as officers being shot at DOUBLED in 2012 They all went went down — but none of them went out. Nearly all of the 12 city cops shot since the beginning of the year have since returned to active duty — despite being reminded firsthand of the dangers of the job. ...One of those cops, NYPD hero Kevin Brennan, lives and thrives The seven-year cop, Kevin Brennan, is one of the 12 NYPD officers who were shot and survived this year. 2 million Americans set to lose unemployment benefits four days after Christmas Hovering in the background of the "fiscal cliff" debate is the prospect of 2 million people losing their unemployment benefits four days after Christmas.

News

• This is democracy? Egypt bans protests outside presidential palace as Islamists and secularists wage bloody street battle • Teachers did this?! Blind 6-year-old boy dragged through school by ankles, teachers face charges • Toddler born with liver, intestines OUTSIDE her body leaves hospital after 850 days • Missouri couple's dog brings home bizarre find - an alligator's head • 'He attacked me first': Fiend suspected of shoving straphanger in front of oncoming train charged with murder, but blames victim • Republicans: We blew it with Latino electorate

Crime

•	Giant NYPD hero Kevin Brennan lives, thrives

•	A year of danger for NYPD officers

•	Elizabeth Johnson sentenced in Baby Gabriel case

•	Jurors split on sexual assault trial of Hasidic counselor

•	Alaska serial killer

•	Twins buried a man in concrete, stole his card collection

Editors Picks  

Wendy Williams bashes Beyonce Wigged-out talk queen Wendy Williams put her big foot in her big mouth Thursday when she bashed Beyoncé during a taping of Fox’s “The Wendy Williams Show,” making fun of the “Single Ladies” singer’s speaking voice and stating that Bey doesn’t sound like a D student. Don’t expect her to apologize.

Going nowhere fast It was a status quo jobs report at a time when the status quo is no way, no how good enough to rescue the American workforce. Employers created 146,000 jobs in November, right in line with the painfully slow growth of the past year.

Minority report The agreement that gave control of the state Senate to Republicans and a handful of breakaway Democrats has touched off charges that the deal will rob minority lawmakers of power they should have.

Words to the wise In 2009 and 2011, students across the country were given vocabulary questions by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Reggae promoter donates for UWI scholarships Education will be taking center stage with Beres Hammond, Maxi Priest, Shaggy and UB40’s Ali Campbell at Wednesday’s Biolife “Sounds of Reggae” show because the concert’s producer will be donating to help needy Caribbean students attend college.

Dec. 9: Pearl Harbor, the Sandy aftermath and calendars Manhattan: “Dec. 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.” Irony, anyone? Voicer Paul Falabella’s letter lamented that Pearl Harbor will soon be forgotten. Outside of a small squib on page 3 and a sign in “Gasoline Alley,” you forgot.

Republicans: We blew it with Latino electorate To John McCain, Marco Rubio, Lindsay Graham and all those other Republicans who went along with their party’s strategy of adopting an extreme anti-immigration stance during the Presidential primaries season, but now are admitting the stupidity of their ways, I can only say: We told you so.

The state Senate Democrats deserve Adams: Sadly, New Yorkers have grown used to the dysfunction in Albany. But whereas in recent years it was merely individual bills that were sidelined by its power struggles, now it’s entire groups being marginalized as well.