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Steve Ferguson, assistant vice president and development officer at First County Bank poses for a portrait at First County Bank's offices in Stamford, Conn. Wednesday, August 10, 2016.
Sen. Chris Murphy addresses a room full of residents, elected officials and leaders from the LGBT and Muslim communities during a roundtable meeting at the Rainbow CafA Meeting Room in the First Congregational Church of Stamford on Saturday, June 18, 2016. In the wake of the devastating event that occurred last weekend in Orlando, Senator Murphy , along with Senator Richard Blumenthal and Stamford Mayor David Martin joined in discussion with LGBT and Muslim communities to look for ways on how we can move forward together to combat hate in our society.
Legislators can do more to curb the national heroin epidemic by earmarking federal dollars for treatment beds and resources for police and state agencies, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy , D-Conn, and U.S. Rep. Jim Himes , D-4, said Tuesday. The legislators met with community leaders from across the region to drum up support for emergency federal funding that would help Connecticut towns battling an alarming rise in overdoses and deaths caused by heroin and prescription opioid abuse.