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“I do’s” sold separately? Customarily, newlyweds are often gifted monogrammed “his” and “hers” hand towels in celebration of their holy matrimony. But luxe linens are apparently the last thing on one uncompromising couple’s list, as the fussy fiancées are giving themselves separate “his” and “hers” wedding ceremonies.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, firefighters in New York knocked down a dwindling brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island as officials warned that high wind gusts could leave the region vulnerable to additional blazes.

In New Jersey, the father of murdered Newark police detective Joseph Azcona called the violent death of his hero son “a pain that is indescribable” as he was nearly too choked up for words.

And in Pennsylvania, a single-engine airplane carrying five people crashed and burst into flames in the parking lot of a retirement community near a small airport in the suburbs, and everyone on board survived, officials and witnesses said.