Jennifer Moses, a resident of Charleston's Daniel Island, said she was ready for whatever came.

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Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, a Republican, lost to Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in 2010.

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Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said his office did more than 50 interviews but there was no basis to conclude a chargeable offense was committed.

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Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, acting as a special prosecutor to look into claims made by female members of the Brooklyn Democrat's staff, said his office found no basis for a chargeable offense.

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Alexander Selkirk--the sailor whose true story inspired Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe--was abandoned on a desert island.

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