A Connecticut shop that sold a gun to the Newtown school shooter’s mother has lost its federal firearms license. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives revoked the license of Riverview Gun Sales in East Windsor, about 15 miles north of Hartford, in December. The agency didn’t disclose why…. …read more
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A Connecticut shop that sold a gun to the Newtown school shooter’s mother has lost its federal firearms license.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revoked the license of Riverview Gun Sales in East Windsor, about 15 miles north of Hartford, in December. The agency didn’t disclose why. It was first reported Thursday by The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y.
Authorities raided the store for undisclosed reasons shortly after the December school shootings. Around the same time, a man was arrested for stealing a rifle from the shop.
Shop owner David LaGuercia has said Nancy Lanza bought a gun from him years ago, but couldn’t remember what kind.
Adam Lanza killed 20 first-graders and six adults with his mother’s rifle. He also killed his mother and himself.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Awards Two Grants to Support Comprehensive Cancer Community Collaboration at Several Hospitals in New Jersey
Grants to American Cancer Society and Princeton HealthCare System support navigation programs designed to improve outcomes and promote efficient, cost-effective care for patients with cancer
PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Bristol-Myers Squibb has awarded grants totaling $175,000 to the American Cancer Society Eastern Division and Princeton HealthCare System (PHCS) to support comprehensive navigation services for patients with cancer both independently and as part of a collaborative effort among several hospitals in central New Jersey.
Several studies have linked patient navigation to improvements in patient outcomes and survival rates, particularly for patients with cancer. Navigation is viewed as an integral component of cancer services. Navigators help coordinate patients’ care and guide them to resources that can provide psychosocial support and address financial concerns, language or cultural issues, and day-to-day needs such as transportation.
The grant to PHCS supports the expansion of a successful patient navigation program at the system’s acute-care hospital, University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro (UMCPP) in Plainsboro, N.J. The program was first piloted at UMCPP‘s Breast Health Center in East Windsor, N.J., under the guidance of a breast health navigator, and also among UMCPP‘s patients with lung and esophageal cancer. The move toward a Comprehensive Oncology Patient Navigation Program will expand navigation services to encompass all cancer patient categories at UMCPP‘s Edward & Marie Matthews Center for Cancer Care.
The Matthews Center for Cancer Care at UMCPP regularly refers patients to the American Cancer Society, and the two jointly offer the “Look Good Feel Better” program. In addition, the Matthews Center for Cancer Care regularly offers collaborative programs with Cancer Support Community Central New Jersey and frequently refers patients to Cancer Care for counseling and psychosocial services.
PHCS used the Bristol-Myers Squibb grant to expand its patient navigation staff to include a full-time senior navigator at UMCPP, fund a patient orientation program and provide more materials to help patients better understand their diagnoses.
“We envision a program in which all patients who receive a cancer diagnosis at UMCPP [approximately 800 to 900 per year] and patients who are returning for cancer treatment [approximately 200 per year] will be routed through an integrated program in which they will be supported from inception to aftercare,” said Judy …read more
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The pilot who safely landed her sputtering six-seater in the icy Hudson River says Chesley Sullenberger‘s “miracle on the Hudson” gave her confidence as her plane dropped toward the water.
“I thought of Sully,” Deniece De Priester said Thursday to The Associated Press. “He did a good job, let me try to make another good job of it.”
In 2009, Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III safely landed a US Airways flight on the Hudson after striking a flock of geese. All 155 people aboard survived.
De Priester said she wasn’t “terribly worried” about the landing, but “I was concerned by how long we would be in the water.”
Her experience with gliders helped her position the plane as it lost altitude Sunday evening.
“It was falling, well, not like a brick, but 400 feet a minute, and we were only at 1,200 feet to start with,” she said. “I instantly pulled the nose up so we were gliding down.”
“I was pretty sure about my aviation skills and I had a lot of faith about the universe,” said De Priester, 39, a native of the Netherlands who lives in East Windsor, N.J.
As they descended, she guided the plane from the shoreline out over the river, but not to the middle.
“I didn’t want to be too far from shore,” she said.
Distress calls went unanswered, she said, and she feared no one would know where they were. Her first call was to the man she lives with, saying “Don’t panic, we’re going to make a water landing.”
Her passenger, Christopher Smidt, also called home first, but he then called 911.
“He made sure we would be found,” De Priester said. “He was my hero.”
Smidt said Tuesday that De Priester deserved all the credit.
A boatload of Yonkers police officers, plus the 12-year-old son of one of them, pulled the De Priester and Smidt out of the icy river after 20-30 minutes.
Unlike Smidt, De Priester said the cold water did not immediately affect her.
“I didn’t feel anything because my adrenalin was pumping so high,” she said. “It was really like I was swimming in the tropics. I was going to swim to shore, no problem.”
By the time she was rescued, however, “The cold was starting to kick in. I felt numb, I couldn’t move anymore.”
She said she still has some numbness in two fingers and under one arm, “but they say it will go away.” She says the accident hasn’t wrecked her dream of forming a flight club, but she’ll have to wait for the insurance money before buying a new plane.
“I was so sorry to see that plane, blub, blub, blub, sinking in the river,” she said.
De Priester says she has an idea about what went wrong, but can’t say publicly until government investigations are over.
“There was a mechanical failure of some sort,” she said. The motor was sputtering and we lost thrust.”
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