Cocktail of drinking and driving kills one on Thruway in Yonkers

Police say a night of drinking was to blame for a fatal accident on the NYS Thruway Thursday. According to police, 42-year-old Mercedes Cha was returning from a party in the Bronx with her mother, 61-year-old

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Cocktail of drinking and driving kills one on Thruway in Yonkers

Police say a night of drinking was to blame for a fatal accident on the NYS Thruway Thursday. According to police, 42-year-old Mercedes Cha was returning from a party in the Bronx with her mother, 61-year-old

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