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Doctors see spike in hoverboard-related injuries

Doctors on Long Island are seeing a spike in injuries stemming from the popular hoverboard gadgets. A 12-year-old boy from Plainview fell off his hoverboard just a day after receiving it. The fall

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Jan 11, 2016, 11:40 PM

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