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Connecticut Legislature Offers Up Bill That Would Make Prison Phone Calls Free
A lot of rights just vanish into the ether once you're incarcerated. Some of this makes sense. You have almost no privacy rights when being housed by the state. But rights don't disappear completely.
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On this, old adversaries agree: Connecticut must remove the religious exemption to vaccines
The sun rose again this morning on a state emerging from a “stay-at-home” spring caused by a pandemic that has claimed over 3,500 of our family members, neighbors and friends. Since COVID-19 hit Connecticut, we have seen and heard about inspiring acts of humanity, we have practiced this newly found — and lifesaving— practice of social distancing, we have self-isolated and now we all await the return to work call so we can rebuild our lives and fire up our state’s economy.
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'It sickens me': Gillian Flynn slams Gone Girl theory in missing woman case
Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn has said an estranged husband’s claim that his missing wife may have faked her disappearance in the manner of Flynn’s bestselling novel “absolutely sickens” her.
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Connecticut House passes bill mandating education of human-induced climate change
The Connecticut House on Tuesday passed a bill to make Connecticut the first state to mandate the teaching of human-induced climate change.
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Bittersweet, after the storm.
Connecticut got hit by quite a bit of snow and ice over the weekend; after the storm had passed, it left behind a lot of beautiful things.
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Woman Hospitalized After Lighting Dynamite Rather Than Candle
A 30-year-old Connecticut woman severely injured her hand and her face when she lit a quarter stick of dynamite that she mistook for a candle after thunderstorms knocked out power Thursday night. Police said the woman was injured around 9:20 p.m. at the family’s Lindley Street home in Bridgeport and her husband and two children were home when the horrific accident happened.
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Man skips job interview, takes shirt off his back to save car crash victim
It had only been seven days since he got released from prison, but Aaron Tucker had already done the impossible — he landed a job interview. Last Thursday, the 32-year-old from Bridgeport, Connecticut, woke up at 5 a.m., grabbed a dress shirt he had been given at the halfway house he was living in, and hopped onto a city bus to meet the manager at a nearby Dinosaur Bar-B-Que.
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The Great New England Vampire Panic
Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, farmers became convinced that their relatives were returning from the grave to feed on the living. By Abigail Tucker.
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16th Connecticut Regiment's Final Year of War
Lesley Gordon talked about the stories of common soldiers coming to terms with non-heroic roles. She is the author of A Broken Regiment: The 16th Connecticut’s Civil War, about a defeated regiment, most of whose members spent the final year of the Civil War in the Andersonville prison camp, where many died. “'At Home Once More and Free': The 16th Connecticut’s Final Year of War” was a program of the 35th annual summer conference of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, “The Civil War in 1865.”
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This Home Comes With Its Very Own Lighthouse
It's also located near the estate that once belonged to an iconic classic film star.
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Bankrupt 50 Cent ordered by judge to start acting broke
A CONNECTICUT bankruptcy judge told rapper 50 Cent that if he’s pleading poverty, he better start acting like he’s broke. “There is nothing funny going on here. This is all very serious business,” Judge Ann Nevins scolded the rapper, also known as “Fitty,” whose real name is Curtis Jackson. “I am not trying to impede on anyone’s right to exercise free speech. But I would appreciate it if we can keep the tone of this case very serious,” she warned in a Hartford courtroom Wednesday.
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Six Face Charges In Scheme To Manipulate Lottery Game
Six people have been charged so far in connection with a scheme to manipulate Connecticut Lottery terminals to produce more instant winning tickets in the 5 Card Cash game, authorities said Tuesday. Additional arrests are possible as state Department of Consumer Protection criminal investigators continue their probe, authorities said. Former lottery retailers from Bloomfield and Windsor were identified Monday as being among...
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All Quiet on the Amphibian Front: The Battle of Windham Frogs
“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders” – Winston Churchill.
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To Catch a Rapist
A [Connecticut] special-victims unit fights the hidden epidemic of sexual assault that is disturbingly difficult to investigate. By Kathy Dobie.
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Connecticut to Ban Gun Sales to Those on Federal Terrorism Lists
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut said on Thursday that he intended to sign an executive order to bar people on federal terrorism watch lists from buying firearms in the state. By Elizabeth A. Harris and Eric Lichtblau.
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Syrian family rejected by Indiana welcomed in Connecticut
A Syrian family that fled the war-torn country in 2011 was welcomed Wednesday to its new home in Connecticut after Indiana officials objected to plans for the refugees to resettle in their state.
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Toni Staffer
My name is Toni and I'm not from CT originally, I moved here 2 years ago. I work as a cook.
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Connecticut Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional
After a sweeping two-year review, the state Supreme Court outlawed capital punishment in Connecticut, saying Thursday that the state's death penalty no longer comports with evolved societal values and serves no valid purpose as punishment.
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Lake Compounce Announces Plans For New Roller Coaster
BRISTOL — Lake Compounce Amusement Park announced plans for a new roller coaster Friday morning at the park.
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