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After deaths at home spike in NYC, officials plan to count many as COVID-19

Officials say a sudden upsurge in deaths at home is likely due to COVID-19, and they are planning to add many of them to New York's death toll, even without confirmation by a laboratory.

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City will bury bodies on remote island if they're unclaimed after 6 days, as coronavirus deaths overwhelm morgues

The city typically waits 30 days before interring bodies in mass graves on Hart Island, but the coronavirus' death toll is overwhelming the system.

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1 dead, firefighter injured in Brooklyn apartment fire

An apartment fire Wednesday night in Brooklyn left a 52-year-old man dead and another civilian and a firefighter seriously injured.

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Mom of daughter killed in Brooklyn wants answers, justice

The man initially questioned was released without being charged.

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Police bust bunny-masked bandit after Midtown bowling alley break-in

A crook in a bunny rabbit surgical mask was busted Wednesday after he and a female-partner-in-crime were caught breaking into a Midtown bowling alley closed by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said.

Read the full story on New York Daily News.

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