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  Just call him Wal-Marty Markowitz

  Walmart is suddenly making sweet music with Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz -- once a staunch critic of the megastore's plans to break ground in the borough....  

• Prepare yourself for the invasion of the hogweed!

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  75-year-old woman suing 77-year-old ex over unpaid child support 34 years after divorce

  She's not getting mad, she's getting even -- 34 years later! Frances Ragusa, 75, and her former husband, Philip, 77, were engaged in a nasty divorce almost...  

• Temple tantrum

  People who live in glass houses shouldn't get blasted out of bed by noise from late-night parties next door, according to a new lawsuit. The board of 1...  

• 'All natural' butcher gives buyers bum steer

  A Brooklyn gourmet grocer is serving up a line of bull to its customers -- claiming its meat is "all natural" and "antibiotic free" when it isn't always, a New...  

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  Quitter Kruger 'plea deal'

  It may be curtains for Carl Kruger. The state senator told confidants he'll announce his resignation by the end of the summer, a prelude to a potential...  

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  Weiner-seat foes

  Republican leaders tapped Bob Turner as the GOP candidate for randy ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner's vacant congressional seat. Turner will take on Democratic...  

• Beach-blanket cinema

  Pack popcorn with the sun block -- Coney Island's world-famous beach is set to become a major movie venue Monday. The city plans to set up a 40-foot screen...  

• This show is on the run

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  'Shots' & beers for cop

  A skirt-chasing cop yesterday sparked a wild brawl in a Brooklyn bar, pumping shots into a jealous boyfriend who had swiped his partner's gun, police sources...  

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  'Good lawyer' convicted in bike stabbing

  A Brooklyn man whose résumé includes time in prison and a stint putting ads on bus-stop shelters also proved himself a good lawyer yesterday. Elie Granger,...  

• Mother-daughter rape fiends will rot

  Three Brooklyn thugs each got more than 150 years in prison yesterday for a brutal home-invasion in which a mother and daughter were both raped in front of a 5...  

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  Brooklyn jihadi convicted

  He's a homegrown terror. A US-born Brooklyn man was convicted by a federal jury yesterday of trying to join a mujahedeen group with the intention of...  

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  'Forced' flick nix

  George Lucas may have crossed over to the Dark Side. In a move worthy of Darth Vader, Lucas' production company plunged a lightsaber through a long-planned...  

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  'Bloodbath' NY prof dies

  An East Village woman who was among five people shot Sunday in a bloodbath at her Pennsylvania weekend home died yesterday. Monica Shay, 58, was a...