Byline: RONALD POWERS Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Democratic congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy turned back a strong Republican challenge on Tuesday and pulled out a victory for a second term in the House.

Upstate, two Democrats targeted by the GOP, Reps. Maurice Hinchey and John LaFalce, easily coasted to re-election.

McCarthy, of Nassau County, who became a well-know gun foe after her husband was slain by a crazed gunman on the Long Island Rail Road, defeated Republican state Assemblyman Gregory Becker.

With 98 percent of the vote in, ...

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