Road Rager Runs Down Boy; Glowing Sex Stuff; El Chapo; and More Brooklyn Briefs

Happy birthday, Sam Cooke!

Photo: Poster from when Otis and Sam played together at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, NY in 1963 #SamCooke pic.twitter.com/m2cpLfr6mc

— Otis Redding (@OtisRedding) January 22, 2017

- Road-rage driver hits boy, 14, on Greenpoint sidewalk, then yells at other driver as boy writhes in pain. [Daily News]

- A feminist-sex-shop-gift-shop-book-shop-mini-gallery operates behind a glittery curtain in a laundromat in Bushwick. It specializes in "cosmic, glowing sex stuff."  [TCP]

- No tunnel out for Mexican drug lord El Chapo, facing justice in Brooklyn. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- 15-year-old shot in East Flatbush, 2 suspects flee: NYPD. [NBC NY]

- East Flatbush man arrested for hiding a dismembered corpse in the  Bronx. [NY1]

- A Brooklyn solution to Islam's law forbidding women from showing their hair to men outside of their own families, even while getting a haircut.  [Refinery29]

- Nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus, and 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers, a national survey indicates. [KRQE]

-  Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in an op-ed that insurance companies in New York will have to continue offering birth control for no co-pay even if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. [Gothamist]

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