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STATEN ISLAND, NY — With Wednesday’s release of the environmental assessment for New York City’s proposed congestion pricing program, drivers got an inside look at how much they could be charged to drive in the Central Business District ( CBD) of Manhattan. The comprehensive report outlines seven different toll scenarios, with higher toll rates of up to $23 during peak hours in scenarios that offer additional credits, limits and exemptions to certain vehicles. In all the scenarios described below, personal cars, motorcycles and commercial vans would be limited to one CBD toll per day, although other vehicles may be charged…

After raising the rent budget for many people renewing apartment leases this year, Connecticut lawmakers are weighing the possibility of a law that would prevent excessive increases across the state, with a pair of West Coast states that provide a template of how it might be done. At the request of a legislator, analyzed the Connecticut Office of Legislative Research Connecticut’s existing laws to limit rent increases. While formal accounts don’t always emerge from OLR studies, this scenario occurred last year when an OLR analysis of state rent controls served as a precursor to legislation addressing the issue. The Connecticut…

At least 41 people have died in a fire in a church near the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The death toll was announced by the country’s Coptic Church, citing health officials. Fourteen other people were reported injured. An electrical fire broke out as 5,000 worshipers gathered for mass at the Abu Sifin Coptic Church in the Imbaba neighborhood, sources told the Reuters news agency. The fire blocked an entrance to the church and led to a stampede, they said, adding that most of the dead were children. “People were gathering on the third and fourth floors, and we saw smoke coming…

CAIRO (AP) – A fire tore through a church in a densely populated neighborhood of the Egyptian capital Cairo… CAIRO (AP) — A fire ripped through a church in a densely populated neighborhood of the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday as congregants worshiped, killing at least 41 and injuring 14, the Coptic Church said. It was one of the worst fire tragedies in Egypt in recent years. The cause of the fire, which produced large amounts of smoke at the Abu Sefein Church in the working-class neighborhood of Imbaba, was not immediately known. An initial investigation pointed to an electrical…

A Connecticut teenager was accidentally shot by his father Friday afternoon while the older man was telling him about guns, authorities said. Police said the 17-year-old, whose name along with his father’s was not released, he suffered a gunshot wound on the shoulder just after 3 p.m. Friday in Meriden, about 22 miles southwest of Hartford, the Hartford Courant reports. “The father planned to familiarize his son with firearms to begin firearms training at a local gun range in the near future,” Meriden police said in a statement at the time of the incident Authorities said the teenager was taken…