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Family: Alleged stabbing was self-defense

Family members of a pregnant White Plains teenager who allegedly stabbed her boyfriend to death say she did so in self-defense. Relatives of 17-year-old Brittany Myers say she did not mean for her boyfriend,

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Mar 8, 2009, 4:54 PM

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