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Dylan’s mom and Daniel’s dad write to me often. In truth, I dread reading their emails; their words darken the day. But how wrenching it must be to write those words. These parents are leaders of the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation . . .
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5/19/16
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A 67-year old employee of Roosevelt Field mall was shot and seriously wounded Dec. 22 when, during a robbery at the mall’s Tourneau store, a gunman struggled with store security and a stray bullet hit the employee, who was uninvolved in the robbery. According to witnesses, police put the mall on lockdown for an hour, keeping thousands of people inside stores throughout the mall until the scene was proven to be safe.
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By Rossana Weitekamp and Rebecca Anderson
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12/22/15
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This Christmas, will a new Smith & Wesson be under your tree?
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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12/16/15
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The recent mass shooting at a community college in Oregon has sparked a renewed debate about whether Congress can and should act to help prevent gun violence. It’s a debate we’re all familiar with . . .
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10/15/15
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Several recently released studies show there doesn’t seem to be a slowdown in the country’s interest in gun ownership.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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7/8/15
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In what turned out to be a horrible hoax, Malverne and Nassau County police responded to a call for “shots fired” and a possible hostage situation in Malverne on Friday, Dec. 5, prompting a team of hostage negotiators, emergency services workers and the Bureau of Special Operations to rush to the scene. The police investigated the scene, located on Alnwick Street, for over three hours before determining the situation was a hoax and the area was safe.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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12/8/14
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The further I get from home, sailing along the New Zealand coast, the smaller the issues seem that once fixed my attention on the news.
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1/31/13
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Last week, Governor Cuomo gave his third State of the State address, and touched on many of the major issues facing our state — Hurricane Sandy relief and recovery, job creation and economic growth, and gun control.
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1/17/13
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There is a lot of emotion surrounding the current debate about making our gun-control laws more rational, and not too many facts.
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1/17/13
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Before I get into the goings-on in Washington and Albany, I think it is more important to touch on the heartbreaking tragedy that took place last Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., not far across the Sound from all of us.
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12/20/12
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