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TODD MAISEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Police are investigating the shooting death of Shalima Gaskin, who was shot outside of Brookdale Hospital early Tuesday morning. Her mother Tanya Gaskin (l) and aunt Lila Evans, can't believe the young mother of three is dead. A 32-year-old mother was fatally shot Tuesday outside a Brooklyn hospital where her 8-year-old daughter was being treated for asthma, police sources said. Shalema Gaskin was with her daughter and the child’s father at Brookdale University Hospital when she left to check on another child at her Kings Highway apartment a block away shortly before 3:15 a.m., sources said. The...

New York City seafood sellers don’t know a tuna from a tilapia. Close to 60% of big retail stores, and 40% of mom-and-pop locations, sold fish that was mislabeled, a new study reveals. The research, by the environmental group Oceana, also found that 100% of sushi bars they tested have hooked their customers on counterfeit chum. Researchers tested the DNA of 142 fish bought from 81 retail outlets. A whopping 56 samples — 39% — were mislabeled. “It’s unacceptable that New York seafood lovers are being duped more than one-third of the time when purchasing certain types of fish,” said Kimberly Warner, an Oceana scientist. All 16 sushi eateries...

EVERETT More than 17,000 people have signed a petition asking the U.S. government to create a "Death Star." A petition on the White House website calling for the government to build a "Star Wars"-style "Death Star" by 2016 has garnered more than 17,000 signatures. The authors of the strange appeal call on the Obama administration to recreate the giant planet-destroying spacecraft from George Lucas's 1977 film, citing a strengthened national defense and job creation as some of the benefits.   "By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority program and weapon system such as a Death Star," the petition reads,...

OSCEOLA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE Yvonne Rodriguez, 23, was charged with child neglect for leaving her three small children at home while she shopped and got her nails done.   A Florida mom is facing child neglect charges for leaving her three little kids home alone while she shopped and then telling police she figured the oldest, who is 5, was big enough to babysit. Osceola Sheriff’s deputies who showed up at Yvonne Rodriguez’s door in Kissimmee on Saturday said they were greeted by a little boy who said, “Policemen, mommy is not here. I’m watching my sisters. Can you watch us now?” the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. The...

MYFOXBOSTON Kim Kerswell and her two children, 3-year-old Ryan and 12-year-old Kaylee. Single mom Kim Kerswell thought getting into a pricey fender-bender was the worst thing that could have happened to her weeks before Christmas. It turned out to be the best. Not only did the woman she hit forgive any damages to her car, she volunteered to save Christmas for Kerswell and her family. “You could tell she was stressed,” Sherene Borr told the Daily News on Tuesday. Kerswell rear-ended Borr in a Milford, Mass. parking lot last week, outside the Panera Bread where Kerswell works. As the women exchanged information, Kerswell divulged she was...

KCRA.COM St. Francis High School in Sacramento, Calif., held a prayer service in honor of visual arts teacher Kathy Carlise. A beloved photography teacher at a California high school was taking pictures of an oncoming train when she was struck and killed by another locomotive coming from behind her. A prayer service was held Monday for Kathy Carlisle, who taught visual arts at St. Francis High School in Sacramento and was well-known for her love of photography. “We’re taking this opportunity to really reflect on the tremendous gift that she was to our community,” Margo Reid Brown, the president of St. Francis, told NBC affiliate...

GETTY IMAGESPresident Obama speaks with New York Police Department Sgt. Stephanie Moses after laying a wreath at the 9/11 Memorial on May 5, 2011. It was the photographs from this event that caused Moses to rise to fame.An NYPD sergeant who rose to fame when she was photographed with President Obama during a 9/11 anniversary wreath ceremony last year was found dead in an apparent suicide at her Long Island home Tuesday, sources said.The body of Sgt. Stephanie Moses, 40, was found in her Baldwin home in the early afternoon with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the sources said.The 17-year veteran was a member of the department’s...