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Suspected mugger messes with the wrong senior

(09/10/07) BAY SHORE ? A mugger may have thought he had an easy target, but a 74-year-old Bay Shore man proved to be anything but a pushover. Police said 32-year-old John McEvoy, of West Babylon, attempted

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