Carolyn McCarthy, a former congresswoman from Long Island and fierce advocate for gun control, has died at age 81 after a ...

Longtime former Democratic New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy died Thursday at her home in Fort Myers, Florida. She was 81. No ...

She went from political novice to leading advocate for gun reform after her husband was killed and her son severely injured ...

Former U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, who successfully ran for Congress in 1996 as a crusader for gun control after a mass ...

Tributes poured in for former Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), an outspoken advocate for gun control, who died Thursday at 81.

The political world in New York is grieving following news of the death of former Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, a staunch advocate for gun control after her husband was killed in the LIRR massacre.

After a deranged shooter killed her husband and wounded her son on a Long Island commuter train in 1993, she went to Congress ...

A man who is accused of pepper-spraying a woman and her baby on an M train in Queens last week has been arrested.

Carolyn McCarthy, the New York congresswoman motivated to enter politics by the shooting of her husband and son, only to find ...

That evening, as a Long Island Rail Road train slowed into the Merillon Avenue station in Garden City, a 35-year-old gunman ...