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Jury convicts ex-aide to former Connecticut House speaker in campaign donations scheme
Jury convicts ex-aide to former Connecticut House speaker in campaign donations scheme.
Malloy lauds tourism promo at Hartford conference
Connecticut's "Still Revolutionary" tourism marketing campaign is succeeding and deserves continued funding, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Tuesday. The campaign, unveiled last year as part of a two-year, $27 million initiative, generated 270,000 additional visits to Connecticut in the past year and yielded an extra $161 million on dining, entertainment ...
ESPN cutting workforce, 'smartly managing costs'
ESPN is cutting its workforce, the latest Disney division to reduce staff. "We are implementing changes across the company to enhance our continued growth while smartly managing costs," the sports media giant said in a statement Tuesday. "While difficult, we are confident that it will make us more competitive, innovative ...
With high-tech guns, users could disable remotely
A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved — and disable it remotely. The technology, but not an actual gun, was demonstrated Tuesday at a wireless technology conference in Las Vegas ...
Connecticut Judge G. Sarsfield Ford dies at 79
Connecticut Judge G. Sarsfield Ford, who sentenced serial killer Michael Ross to death in 1987, has died. He was 79. An obituary prepared by Ford's family says he died Sunday in Fairfield after battling declining health following a stroke in 2006. Ford grew up in Bridgeport, graduated from the University ...
Official: No drugs, alcohol found in Conn. gunman
Toxicology tests on the body of the Newtown school shooter did not turn up any alcohol, illegal drugs or prescription medications, an official close to the investigation said Tuesday. Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 before killing himself ...
Carol Burnett to win top US humor prize in DC
Carol Burnett, who became famous for playing a variety of characters in sketch comedy routines on her namesake television show, was named the winner of the nation's top humor prize on Tuesday. The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Burnett will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ...
Conn. foster mom pleads guilty for spoon-spanking
A foster mother faces 100 days in prison after acknowledging she spanked a 4-year-old girl with a wooden spoon. Jami Littlefield, 51, of Griswold, pleaded guilty Monday in Superior Court in Norwich to third-degree assault. She told authorities she paddled the girl in January because she was acting out, according ...
Newtown mom visits Utah hometown for ceremony
A woman who lost a child in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School is visiting her hometown in Utah this week for a private ceremony to honor her slain daughter. Alissa Parker is also planning to speak about a program in which she and other victims' parents are raising ...
Police: 2 missing children found safe in Conn.
Authorities say two children who were forcibly taken by their father from a foster home in Massachusetts have been found safe in Connecticut and their father has been arrested. Massachusetts State Police say 8-year-old Patrick Nguyen (n'wihn) and his 10-year-old sister, Sarah Nguyen (n'wihn), were found unharmed at a convenience ...
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