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26 cyclists from Connecticut will wrap up a four-day ride to Washington today as they push for tougher gun laws.
Authorities say they found what appeared to be a pipe bomb and suspicious chemicals, as well as shotguns, a surveillance system and a fortified tunnel under the backyard of Donald Saturno's basement apartment.
John Hohenwarter, an NRA state liaison, said the group decided to help organize the "lobby day" because there's an accumulation of "made-for-TV lawmaking, not good policy."
There is a push to enact new gun laws to make life safer in Connecticut before a another milestone following the Newtown massacre.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy on Saturday was reminding residents of the state who need help paying winter heating bills that there is still time to apply for federal energy assistance benefits.
Twenty-six cyclists were biking from Newtown, Conn., to Washington, D.C., this weekend to send a message.
By 6 p.m. Friday, however, the storm had moved mostly out to the Atlantic Ocean, leaving behind some significant snow totals for parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
After several hours of flurries, the region was seeing heavy snowfall in some areas Thursday night. In Westchester County, plows were hitting the streets. Along the Jersey Shore, streets were inundated with rising waters.
In both cases, issues with the seals on the cans could allow dangerous organisms in or lead to spoilage.
Schools in Highland in the Hudson Valley were each given an armed police officer to guard the public schools in the wake of the Dec. 14 Newtown school massacre.
The very idea of closing the control towers is insane, according to U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy.
A winter weather advisory is in effect from 6 p.m. Wednesday until 6 p.m. Thursday for parts of Conn., northeastern New Jersey, New York City and western and central Long Island.
Quinnipiac University poll director Douglas Schwartz said the poll shows that voters do not have much confidence in their elected officials to reach a deal on gun control.
Animal control officers found the 6- to 7-month-old pit bull mix under a bush in an empty lot off Hopkins Street on Monday night after receiving a call about an injured dog.
