Stealing Ghost Bikes; Betty White's Pranksters; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Someone might be stealing and selling ghost bike memorials. NY Magazine 

- Brooklyn Heights Cinema presents a short version of Heather Quinlan’s film-in-progress, If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the New York Accent. Brooklyn Eagle

- Betty White's team of senior pranksters have been spotted in Park Slope. Gothamist 

- What to do in Brooklyn on Valentine's Day. About.com

- "Exceptionally vicious" Bonanno captain gets 10 year, 7 already served. He'll be out in 3, and then will enter the witness-protection program. NY Post

- Brooklyn graffiti says Google is the new Big Brother. amNY

- MF Global's missing $1.2 billion probably just "vaporized." NY Magazine

- A Republican lawmaker withdrew his bill to require drug testing welfare applicants after a Democrat amended it to require drug testing for lawmakers. Huff Post

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