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COVID-19: NY Will Ramp Up Testing For Frontline Workers, Allow Pharmacies To Conduct Tests COVID-19: NY Will Ramp Up Testing For Frontline Workers, Allow Pharmacies To Conduct Tests
Covid-19: NY Will Ramp Up Testing For Frontline Workers, Allow Pharmacies To Conduct Tests New York State is expanding testing for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) to include more frontline workers as a result of rapidly increasing diagnostic testing capacity.  The expanded criteria will now allow all first responders, healthcare workers and essential employees to be tested for COVID-19 even if they aren't symptomatic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Saturday, April 25 at his daily news briefing in Albany.  The state will continue to expand testing criteria as testing capacity increases. Cuomo also announced he will issue an executive order allowing more than 5,000 phar…

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Hudson Valley Man Pleads Guilty To Wife's Fatal Stabbing Hudson Valley Man Pleads Guilty To Wife's Fatal Stabbing
Hudson Valley Man Pleads Guilty To Wife's Fatal Stabbing A man has pleaded guilty to the first homicide in Scarsdale in nearly four decades. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr. announced on Tuesday that Julius Reich, 63, has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, a violent felony, in the fatal stabbing of his wife, Robin Goldman, who was a pediatrician at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Shortly after 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016, first responders from the police department and Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps rushed to 50 Lincoln Road when Reich alerted the police that a woman had been “seriously inj…

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Area Dentist Found Dead Inside Running Car Area Dentist Found Dead Inside Running Car
Area Dentist Found Dead Inside Running Car A Westchester dentist once affiliated with the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx was found dead inside a running car in the Bronx, according to the NYPD. NYPD officials said they received a report of Dr. Jeremy Wertman, 38, of Scarsdale, sitting in a running car in a parking garage at 2690 E. 188th St. in Fordham Heights about 8:45 a.m. Tuesday. Police sources say Wertman had an IV tube connected to his foot with a bag filled with propofol, according to the New York Post. Propofol is the same drug Michael Jackson used before his death. The drug can be highly addictive and its side eff…

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by Kathy Reakes