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A rising star in Connecticut politics dies in a collision with a wrong-way driver

A Connecticut state representative who was considered a rising political star was killed when a wrong-way driver crashed into his vehicle Thursday, state police said. The other driver also died.

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Connecticut state Rep. Quentin Williams killed in wrong-way crash

HARTFORD, Conn. — State Rep. Quentin “Q” Williams, 39, was killed in a crash early Thursday, according to multiple state officials.

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Connecticut legislator dies in wrong-way highway crash

A Connecticut state representative was killed overnight in a wrong-way highway crash after having attended the governor’s inaugural ball hours and after having been sworn in to a third term, House Democratic leaders said Thursday

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Cops Question Connecticut Mom Who Let 7-Year-Old Walk a Mile

"She is way too young to be walking this distance by herself," said the cops.

Reason

Wealthy Connecticut Residents Received Millions in Federal Dollars After Hurricane Sandy

It shouldn't be the federal government's responsibility to protect wealthy homeowners from the inevitable.

Reason

Pedestrian fatalities at highest rate in Connecticut in over 3 decades, data says

HARTFORD, Conn. — This year has been the deadliest for pedestrians in Connecticut since the late 1980s, according to most recent Department of Transportation data.

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Alex Jones' motion to set aside Sandy Hook verdict denied

A Connecticut judge has denied Infowars host Alex Jones’ motion seeking a new trial and the overturning of a jury verdict requiring him to pay families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings

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Judge rejects Alex Jones’ post trial arguments; $1.4 billion CT Sandy Hook verdict stands

HARTFORD, Conn. — In a short and pointed ruling, the judge who presided over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Connecticut Sandy Hook defamation trial on Thursday rejected his arguments that the jury’s $1.4 billion damages award should be reduced and a new trial ordered.

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FIRE's and My Amicus Brief on Connecticut's "Racial Ridicule" Law

FIRE has the details, though you can also read the full brief (written by FIRE's Adam Steinbaugh and me, with many thanks to our excellent local counsel Zachary Phillipps of Wofsey Rosen Kewskin & Kuriansky, LLP). I've been writing about this law since 2010, so I'm especially pleased to have…

Reason

Appeals court upholds CIAC’s transgender policy

HARTFORD, Conn. — The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City upheld the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s transgender policy Friday after attorneys for cisgender girls who filed a lawsuit appealed to the court to change the records and results of track races in which the transgender female…

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Baltimore archbishop battled against release of abuse documents for nearly 8 years: ‘I fought the good fight’

BALTIMORE — As bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Most Rev. William E. Lori fought for nearly eight years — all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court — to prevent the wide release of information about the history of child sexual abuse in that branch of the Catholic Church.

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Passing assault weapons bill is a matter of life and death

I don’t ever want to hear another politician offer “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting. I don’t ever again want to look into the eyes of parents of dead first- and second graders, as I did in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012. I don’t ever want to attend another funeral…

Chicago Sun-Times

Joe Biden says US should have ‘societal guilt’ 10 years after Sandy Hook

President commemorates 2012 shooting, in which 20 children and six adults were killed in Newtown, Connecticut

The Guardian - US

Connecticut’s governor delivered the news to 26 Sandy Hook families 10 years ago. It changed the national conversation around school violence and gun reform

HARTFORD, Conn. — On Dec. 14, 2012, 26 families huddled inside a firehouse in Newtown, holding onto their last fragments of hope that quickly drained from the cold, crowded space.

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The Guardian - US

Sandy Hook’s tragic legacy on gun safety takes a new turn 10 years on

In the decade since the shooting, a reinvigorated movement aimed at ending gun violence has spread across the country

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In the wake of Sandy Hook massacre, a sense of duty to prevent further tragedy compelled Connecticut lawmakers to act on guns

HARTFORD, Conn. — As the initial shock and horror of the deaths of 20 young children and six female educators at a Newtown elementary school was still fresh in everyone’s mind, Connecticut’s top legislators decided they needed to do something.

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Sandy Hook families continue to break new legal ground with big court decisions over Infowars host Alex Jones and a major gun manufacturer

HARTFORD, Conn. — Relatives of the Sandy Hook shooting victims have won more than $1.5 billion in damages over the yearlong run-up to the 10-year remembrance of the murderous rampage at a Newtown elementary school.

Daily Mirror

Mystery as missing man found dead after living under new name for years

Robert Hoagland disappeared from his home in Newtown, Connecticut, US, in 2013 leaving his wife and three sons desperately searching for answers

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Oral surgeon has help when drilling implants. Meet his robotic assistant

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Dr. Ryaz Ansari, a West Hartford, Connecticut, oral surgeon, knows how important it is to have teeth that are aligned and pain-free.

The Independent UK

5 officers charged in police van injury case appear in court

Five Connecticut police officers have appeared in court for the first time since being charged with cruelly neglecting a Black man who suffered a neck injury and was partially paralyzed in the back of a police van with no seatbelts

Tribune News Service

6 Connecticut toddlers died from fentanyl in 2021. Spike in illicit use, drug's potency have child advocates worried

HARTFORD, Conn. — Fentanyl, 50 times more potent than heroin, kills no matter what age its victim may be.

The Independent UK

Terrifying video captures raccoon attacking five-year-old waiting for school bus

Rylee MacNamarabitten on the leg on the porch at her home in Ashford, Connecticut

USA Today Sports Media Group

Bellator 289: Make your predictions for Stots-Sabatello, Carmouche-Velasquez

We want your predictions for Friday's Bellator 289 event in Connecticut.

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Connecticut announces plan to develop Native American studies curriculum for K-12 public schools

Governor Ned Lamont (D) and the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) announced a partnership with state tribal leaders on November 30, 2022, to develop a Native American studies model curriculum for K-12 students. The announcement follows legislation signed by the governor in June 2021. The bill established new subject…

Daily Mirror

Mum hurls raccoon across garden after her daughter, 7, gets mauled in vicious attack

Schoolgirl Rylee MacNamara, from Connecticut, was standing outside her family home on Friday morning as she waited for her parents to take her to school when the pupil was savaged by a raccoon

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