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Mount Vernon hospital doctor may have set off NYC building blast

Police say a suicidal Mount Vernon hospital doctor may have accidentally set off a huge blast that caused a Manhattan brownstone to crumble, injuring 15 people. The doctor, 66-year-old Nicholas Bartha,

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Jul 11, 2006, 7:47 AM

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