Gotham Cable News
June 27, 2008
- Redistricting plans put on hold as legislature unable to achieve a quorum.
- Gotham Film Office to open this year to help streamline the process for shooting films in the city; office was formed out of last year’s bill offering tax credits to filmmakers interested in shooting in Gotham.
- Three home invaders shot and killed by teenage girl who had hidden in a closet.
- Family dog leaps from moving vehicle in slow traffic along I-14; animal survives, traffic crawls.
- Boy avoids injury when shoot-out breaks out on his street; his game console not so lucky.
- Girl Guides advised not to go door-to-door for cookie sales in Gotham after robbery incidents.
- Tropical storm no longer expected to make landfall near Gotham.
- Bike and bike-part thefts on the rise; City Commissioner to address glut of abandoned disabled vehicles.
- Switching error delays all trains on Red Line.
- 14-year-old girl coralls Lucky Date race horse. "All it took was a bag of carrots and some kind words. I don't think he's a long shot at all".
- School uniform measure fails by whopping vote of 180 to 20.
- Dingerling Sisters Bob and Stan call Gotham audiences "uncivilized apes."
- Scan Cards go into service effective this week. Tokens to be phased out.
- Source discovered for tainted dry cleaning chemical: factory cat "caught on tape" dumping powdered lye into chemical vat.
- Contractor Willie Foils sues building manager Lou Grossburg for defamation of character over falling window incident.
- Restaurant review: "Wegstaff Room over-rated" says food critic Humphrey Tumbledown.
- "Tree thug" caught by Batman during election turns state's evidence for Harvey Dent.
- Stores report unusual shortage of red and white shoe polish.
