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Man indicted on murder charge in baby's death

A Port Jefferson man has been indicted on charges of murder and manslaughter in the shaking death of his girlfriend's baby, court records showed Friday. A Suffolk grand jury handed up an indictment against Howard Brooks, 24, who was arrested March 30, a day after 11-week-old Madeline Mendolia was hospitalized with a traumatic brain injury. Brooks, who is not the baby's father, hurt the baby March...

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