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The new medical treatment outpost for Rikers Island detainees at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan was thrown into chaos one August morning when a 36-year-old man appeared unresponsive in his bed.

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A New York man will spend up to nine years in state prison for breaking into and setting fire to a former girlfriend’s Lancaster Township apartment.

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