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The brides wore white — but hazmat suits might have been better. Alison Schumer, the younger of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s two daughters, married Elizabeth Weiland on Sunday in Brooklyn, with the couple posing for wedding photos on a bridge over the toxic Gowanus Canal.

L.A. Police Dept. to recruit at Chicago's Gay Games Police force will sponsor volleyball competion at Navy Pier (Crain's) — The Los Angeles Police Department, in a bid to broaden its recruitment program, will visit Chicago next summer during Gay Games VII in search of officer candidates. The department has signed on to sponsor the volleyball competition at Navy Pier in the Gay Games sports and cultural festival slated to run here from July 15 to 22 and will be promoting police jobs to all 12,000 participants. At the same time, the LAPD plans to run advertising in local media...

As New York City pushed to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, its top officials desperately tried to get some face time with the all-powerful delegates of the International Olympic Committee who are deciding the fate of the city's bid. But while many of the I.O.C. representatives were ducking some of the high-profile names seeking to woo their vote, at least one turned the tables: Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was greeted like a rock star as she made her way around this tidy Asian island on Tuesday promoting the city's bid for the 2012 Summer Games. Delegates sought to have their...