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LEVITTOWN, Pennsylvania (June 6) - A deal is being negotiated that would allow a high school's class president to participate in Friday's graduation ceremony despite concern that he could be targeted by a gang. Tyrone Lewis, 18, had been scheduled to be one of the speakers at the Truman High School commencement ceremony, but police were worried that he could be targeted by a gang from Trenton, New Jersey, because his sister had testified in a murder trial. Lewis had been barred from the ceremony. Dave Truelove, the Bristol Township School District's solicitor, confirmed Tuesday that talks are in progress...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — A Columbus man asked for directions early Monday, but the two pedestrians from whom he sought help stole his car instead. Keith Stroman, 21, told Columbus police he stopped his 1995 Chevrolet Camaro at an intersection on the south side of town around 2:50 a.m. to ask two men for directions. Instead of answering his question, one of the men pulled a silver gun and ordered Stroman out of his car. The carjackers got into the Camaro, valued at $4,000, and drove away, police said. Stroman was not injured.

Two Queens gang members were busted yesterday, accused of blowing away a female pal at a drug-laced party for the hell of it, law enforcement sources said. Ramiro Pineda, 20, and William Ramirez, 22, were slapped with murder charges in the shooting death of Maria Rubio early Tuesday in a College Point apartment, cops said. Sources gave a chilling account of the slaying, which occurred when Pineda and Ramirez, both of Flushing, were partying with Rubio and other men in a second-floor 130th St. pad. "Let's shoot the b----," one suspect said, and fired, hitting Rubio, a source said. "No,...

Armed with an injunction that makes it illegal for gang members to gather in public, police have swarmed a neighborhood near Roeding Park. But the Parkside Bulldogs say the injunction violates their civil rights.