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'Targeted Killing': Long Island Trio Charged In Fatal Shooting 'Targeted Killing': Long Island Trio Charged In Fatal Shooting
'Targeted Killing': Long Island Trio Charged In Fatal Shooting Authorities captured and charged three Long Island men in connection with the shooting death of a driver on Route 80 in New Jersey last weekend. "It was not a random shooting -- it was a targeted killing," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said during a noon news conference Thursday in Hackensack with Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella and BCPO Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti. Anzilotti identified the trio as: Kenneth Regan, 21, of Centereach; Douglas Coudrey, 22, of Eastport, the alleged shooter; Robert Plunkett, 22, also of Eastport. The defendants were in a 2013 BMW…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Search Continues For Renowned Researcher Who Drowned In Swim Between Tappan Zee, GWB Search Continues For Renowned Researcher Who Drowned In Swim Between Tappan Zee, GWB
Search Continues For Renowned Researcher Who Drowned In Swim Between Tappan Zee, GWB UPDATE: The long-distance swimmer believed drowned during the next-to-last-leg of a 120-mile marathon was an internationally-recognized AIDS researcher, activist and former professor at the University of North Carolina. A spotter saw Charles Van der Horst, 67, of Chapel Hill go under and not reappear near the foot of the "Little Red Lighthouse" at Fort Washington Park near the George Washington Bridge just after 3 p.m. Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Van der Horst, a native of the upstate New York town of Olean, was participating in a 15.7-mile leg of the 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim from…

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by Jerry DeMarco