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Samantha Garnier was five months pregnant when she was killed Wednesday night by Drew Garnier, who also stabbed their two girls in Masonville, state police said.
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'I'm going to try to avoid it' A trip to the emergency room in a Long Island hospital now averages nearly 4 hours, data shows. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.
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