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LAKE GROVE, N.Y. (AP) — A New York family says they've found human bones beneath their basement, and they believe the remains are those of their patriarch who disappeared half a century ago.

Steven Carroll, 61, and his brother Michael Carroll, 57, said their family had tried just about everything to find out what happened to their father, George Carroll, who disappeared in 1961.

The missing man's wife, Dorothy Carroll, who died in 1998, had only told her children that "he went out and just never came back," Michael Carroll told Newsday .

Michael Carroll had bought the house, located in the vil...