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Police: Wrong-way driver kills motorcyclist on Taconic Parkway

Another deadly wrong-way crash on the Taconic State Parkway has left a motorcyclist dead and state police looking into what happened. State police say that 40-year-old Melida Espinal, of Connecticut,

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Aug 31, 2015, 9:34 PM

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