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Today, partly sunny. Widespread frost early in the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds up to 10 mph. Tonight, mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the upper 30s. South winds up to 10 mph. Friday, partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the mid-60s. West winds up to 10 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon. ... HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — John McCain repeatedly assailed Barack Obama’s character and campaign positions on taxes, abortion and more Wednesday night, hoping to transform their final presidential debate into a launching pad for a political comeback. “You didn’t tell the American people the truth,” he charged. Unruffled, and ahead in the polls, Obama parried each accusation, and leveled a few of his own. “One hundred percent, John, of your ads, 100 percent of them have been negative,” Obama shot back in an uncommonly personal debate less than three weeks from Election Day. “It’s not true,” McCain retorted.