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YONKERS— A 19-year-old city man who appeared to bite into a plastic bag containing cocaine this evening was arrested after he and ran from and fought with officers in the city’s public housing detail, police said.

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Yonkers man charged with coke possession after fighting with housing cops (The Journal News)

General Motors Co will pay back roughly $8 billion in debt to the United States and Canada before June and could go public in a way that would allow taxpayers to make a profit on the bailout, Chief Executive Ed Whitacre said on Wednesday.

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GM CEO says U.S. will make money on bailout (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Buyers are beginning to bid against each other on modest but good-quality homes at the lower end of the Peninsula real estate market. The housing market was battered in the wake of the 2008 subprime loan crisis, when a rash of foreclosures and a worldwide credit shortage drove down overinflated real…

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Peninsula housing coming to life (The San Francisco Examiner)