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Residents and colleagues are hailing a state trooper as a hero Thursday for persuading a woman not to jump from the Tappan Zee Bridge. Trooper James Foley says he saw a woman walking at the foot of the

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Residents and colleagues are hailing a state trooper as a hero Thursday for persuading a woman not to jump from the Tappan Zee Bridge. Trooper James Foley says he saw a woman walking at the foot of the

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