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McCarthy tested in bid for an 8th term

It was a story of tragedy turned to triumph.

A Mineola nurse whose husband was killed and son wounded during a murderous rampage on the Long Island Rail Road runs for Congress and soundly defeats the Republican incumbent who voted against gun control.

"I don't want to go to Congress and get caught up with whatever goes on there," Carolyn McCarthy said after her upset victory in 1996....

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