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'Bright Fireball' Seen From Mass Confirmed To Be Meteor: NASA 'Bright Fireball' Seen From Mass Confirmed To Be Meteor: NASA
'Bright Fireball' Seen From Mass Confirmed To Be Meteor: NASA A fireball that appeared in the skies off the coast of Long Island has been confirmed to have been a meteor that was seen in several states, including New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.  The meteor was seen in several East Coast states on Thursday, Nov. 2 just after 7 p.m., according to an announcement by NASA.  According to the agency, the meteor first appeared 65 miles above a point in the Atlantic Ocean 81 miles off the coast of Smith Point County Park on Fire Island in Suffolk County, New York. Fire Island is part of the towns of Babylon, Islip, and Brookhaven.  The "bright fir…

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by Ben Crnic
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Gilgo Four: New England Resident Among Women At Heart Of NY Serial Murder Case Gilgo Four: New England Resident Among Women At Heart Of NY Serial Murder Case
Gilgo Four: New England Resident Among Women At Heart Of NY Serial Murder Case They're known as the Gilgo Four. The women, all in their 20s, are at the heart of the Long Island serial murder case that has captured national and global attention following the arrest of suspect Rex Heuermann just over a week ago. The 59-year-old married father of two, an architect who worked on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and resided in Nassau County in the village of Massapequa Park just miles north of the site where their bodies were found -- in a grassy area of Gilgo Beach, a barrier island off Long Island's south shore in the Suffolk County town of Babylon. Heuermann was arraigned on…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Rockport Man Among Four College Students Killed In Fiery Maine Crash; Middleton Man Injured Rockport Man Among Four College Students Killed In Fiery Maine Crash; Middleton Man Injured
Rockport Man Among Four College Students Killed In Fiery Maine Crash; Middleton Man Injured Hundreds of students of Maine Maritime Academy gathered over the weekend to honor four of their classmates who were killed in an early morning crash on Saturday, Dec. 10, including two young men from Massachusetts, reports said.  Maine police identified Luke Simpson, 22, of Rockport, and Riley Ignacio-Cameron, 20, of Aquinnah, Brian Kenealy, 20, and Chase Fossett, 21, both of Maine, as those who died in the Saturday, Dec. 10 crash in Castine, Maine, ABC6 reported.  Investigators told reporters that a 2013 Range Rover loaded with seven students of the Maritime Academy slammed into a tree on…

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by Josh Lanier