A 35-year-old man died after he fell down an elevator shaft at a swanky nightclub once featured on the television show Sex and the City, police said. Police said Orlando Valle got into a dispute on Saturday with a man at BED New York, a Manhattan club known for providing beds for its lounging patrons. The man pushed Valle against sixth-floor elevator doors that opened, causing Valle to fall into the shaft, police said. Valle plummeted four floors before landing on top of the elevator car of the converted warehouse space, police said. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. Authorities were questioning the other man involved in the fight but had not charged anyone, police said.
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Phone assault man convicted
A man accused of shoving a cellphone down a woman's throat was convicted on Saturday of second-degree domestic assault. Prosecutors in Independence, Missouri, said Marlon Brando Gill, 25, had a history of abusing his former girlfriend, Melinda Abell, before he forced the cellphone into her mouth in December 2005 while they were arguing. Abell was rushed to a hospital, where she underwent emergency surgery to remove the phone. The defense said Abell was drunk and tried to swallow the phone to prevent Gill from finding out whom she had been calling. But a state witness testified that injuries to Abell's mouth were consistent with the phone being forced into it.
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