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  • Al Lakas is an air conditioner contractor who, when confronted by our camera, just can't stand the heat.
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  • mold juice
  • Many children drink them every day, but a Brooklyn family says their son got sick after drinking from a juice box.
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  • wedding refund
  • It was the perfect place to say "I do" until Superstorm Sandy washed the wedding hall away, leaving a Jersey shore couple with no reception venue.
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  • Two sisters have been fighting with their mortgage company to release insurance money to fix their Sandy-damaged home.
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  • donuts
  • June has the longest days of the year, which means more daylight to shop!
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  • house loan
  • A home equity loan that had been paid off showed up as an unresolved $20,000 debt against the home 20 years later.
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  • So many people taking care of aging parents and relatives know it's important to get power of attorney to handle matters for them.
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  • swimming safety
  • An important warning for parents this time of year as drowning poses one of the biggest dangers for kids.
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  • dumont tree
  • A New Jersey man bought a house and chopped a tree down he thought was on his property, but turns out it wasn't, and when the town saw it gone, sent him a whopper of a bill in the thousands for robbing residents of shade and oxygen.
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  • So many good ideas posted on our Facebook page, and a lot of the comments were tips about grocery shopping.
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  • auto repo
  • It truly was a beamer bummer. A Bronx man's BMW was gone in 60 seconds.
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  • 7 On Your Side reporter Nina Pineda confronts Camp Life Kingdom's directors about paying their youth counselors from last summer's work.
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  • If you're like some lottery players in the Bronx, it's not how, but where you buy your ticket that matters.
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  • outrageous fees
  • They're beyond irritating and they keep getting bigger: Frustrating Fees for what used to be free!
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  • bad landlord
  • A group of tenants was left shivering for more than a year without heat and hot water.
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  • may best buys
  • Along with warmer skies, the month of May brings savings, but you need to know where those best bets are.
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  • all american chimney
  • There's a warning for anyone with a fireplace and a chimney.
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  • This Sandy soaked homeowner lost everything but the clothes on her back, and now she says a cruise company's turned its back on her.
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  • A homeowner on Long Island had her house destroyed, and she had an added problem, someone else's boat shipwrecked on her deck!
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  • Anyone dealing with health insurance knows there's a huge price difference if you use an out-of-network provider.
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  • parking ticket
  • The Long Island car owner said he felt like David going up against Goliath fighting over a parking ticket.
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  • Some outraged folks on Staten Island are outraged today after they got warnings about debris left on their curb. Debris from Superstorm Sandy.
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  • 7 most common tax write-offs
  • Leaving money on the table at tax time is something many people do. That is deductions - not taken by us when we file our taxes. And it could mean the difference of get thousands in a return - or reaching for your checkbook to pay Uncle Sam.
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  • 7 on your side unclaimed funds
  • Every year, millions in unclaimed funds are turned over to the state, but first, companies are supposed to try and distribute money to its rightful owner or heirs.
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  • diamond
  • There are lots of complaints about stolen jewelry to 7 On Your Side, but the problem is proving it.
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  • It may be April 1st, but we're not fooling with you. We're saving you big bucks on a lot of stuff.
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  • moving scam
  • A moving company was kicked out of New Jersey and fined millions after being found guilty of a variety of schemes.
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  • tips for protecting yourself on your smartphone
  • How many times have you lost or misplaced your smart phone?
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  • computer
  • Teacher Karl Marttz says he was taught an expensive lesson after trusting Sebastian Alverius, owner of his own Manhattan-based computer wholesale company, Alverius and Co.
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  • couple gets sandy settlement
  • Superstorm Sandy left hundreds of families in our area homeless, and so many are still waiting for their insurance money to rebuild.
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  • chimney replacement
  • The job looked legit - a chimney contractor installing a liner to help a crumbling chimney. But when the homeowner says the company's own workman said the job was shoddy, it took consumer affairs, a judge and then 7 On Your Side to help her out.
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  • It has been an extra cold winter for one Long Island homeowner after his boiler went bust.
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  • When we first told you the story about a lost long island peacock searching for a home, two zoos, including the Bronx zoo, said no to our requests.
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  • As a registered nurse Beth Liebson is used to comforting others, but after purchasing a used car, she was the one who needed someone to lean on.
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  • Frank and Pat Scala's home of 30 years is a waterlogged wasteland, but now the Scalas are battling their mortgage company, not Mother Nature.
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  • It was an 83-year-old Long Island lady versus America's leading auto finance company.
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  • Mrs. Volpe shared her famous pasta and meatball recipe with 7 On Your Side!
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  • The family lost their beloved dad, and then lost thousands in a life insurance scheme to a funeral director who they say lied to them.
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  • How a bird, native to what used to be Burma, wound up in Bayshore is a mystery, but a peacock has been strutting it's stuff, loose in a Long Island neighborhood since September.
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  • Anyone who's paid to have a tree cut down knows it's not cheap, but a Brooklyn homeowner got the shock of his life, when he got stuck with a bill, for 53-thousand dollars.
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  • It's called juice jacking - tapping into your electric box without you knowing it.
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  • Two billion dollars is the amount of unclaimed funds waiting for New Yorkers living in Sandy impacted areas. Some of the money is sitting in old bank accounts, stocks, even gift cards!
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  • It was a once in a lifetime trip to the Dark Continent that for one Long Island couple got even darker.
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  • They haven't been home since Sandy's surge from the Bay almost knocked their house off its base.
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  • When a school bus with kids on board smashed into a parked car in Farmingdale, the driver was arrested, but it's the young car owner who says she feels locked up because she couldn't get the bus company to help her rent a car to get to work.
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  • It's a story that 7 On Your Side first found on Facebook. A quiet seashore town is now the center of a cresting controversy.
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  • There's a follow up to a story Eyewitness News shared with you about the fight in one northern suburb to save a tree.
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  • First the Long Island homeowner lost her husband to heart disease, and then Sandy hit her home.
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  • The village's Rockefeller Center sized tree is about to be axed, all to make room for four public bathrooms.
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  • It was a role reversal for this nurturing mother of 5. She's spent her life giving help, taking care of under-privileged special needs kids. But when her paychecks stopped, it was the caregiver who needed a helping hand from 7 On Your Side.
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