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Cemetery worker suspended for blunder

The Hempstead Town employee in charge of Greenfield Cemetery in Uniondale has been suspended and will be reassigned for giving the order to exhume the body of a Freeport man who had been buried in the wrong grave - without notifying the man's family, said the town spokesman.

>> PHOTOS: Click here to view photos of the burial error in Uniondale

Also Wednesday, the town admitted that...

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