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5 hrs ago | Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Conn. lawmakers warned of bigger deficit in 2012

Connecticut lawmakers learned that the state's budget woes may get much worse in 2012, possibly growing to $3.4 billion from the current $385 million.

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Related Topix: Connecticut Government, M. Jodi Rell, US Governors

13 hrs ago | The Hartford Courant

Court: Owners Of Truck In Fatal Avon Crash Can Sue

The Connecticut Supreme Court reinstated a lawsuit Wednesday brought by the owners of a dump truck involved in a fiery crash in Avon in 2005 that killed four people and injured 11 others.

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Related Topix: Avon, CT, Bloomfield, CT, New Haven Metro, New Haven, CT

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Automotive Body Repair News

Hartford says it will appeal $15-million jury verdict to Connecticut repairers

The Hartford Insurance Co. said it was disappointed in a Connecticut jury's verdict that it broke the law and will appeal the verdict and the $15 million fine assessed against the company.

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WTIC-TV Hartford

Swine Flu Vaccine Update Given By Connecticut Health Officials

Howard Lam, left, and Emily Lu, 3-year-old cousins, wait outside a H1N1 clinic in West Hartford Wednesday.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Connecticut Government, Medicine, Influenza, Hartford Metro, Hartford, CT

The Hartford Courant

Former State Senator Charged With DUI

Former state Sen. Thomas J. Herlihy Jr. of Simsbury was arrested on drunken driving charges early Wednesday by Enfield police.

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Related Topix: Connecticut Government

Wed Nov 18, 2009

NBC Connecticut

Health Net Loses Information for 450,000 Clients

The personal information for almost half a million Connecticut residents could be at risk after a portable disk drive disappeared from Health Net six months ago.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Social Security

Department of Public Safety

Connecticut State Police Arrest Man Accused of Murder in New York

On Tuesday, November 17, 2009, at about 8:22 a.m. Connecticut State Police Troop L in Litchfield and Troop B in North Canaan received a "Be on the Lookout" notification from the New York State Police regarding a vehicle possibly involved in a suspicious death incident they were investigating in Sharon Springs, New York, that occurred on November ...

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Related Topix: New York, Springs, NY, Sharon Springs, NY

OfficialWire

Connecticut Criminal Defense Attorneys Sort Out The Myths And Realities Of DUI

With the holiday season approaching, the criminal defense attorneys at the Connecticut law firm of Paoletti & Gusmano, say that the chances of being picked up on a drinking and driving charge increase According to Frederick D. Paoletti, Jr., Founding Principal of the law firm of Paoletti & Gusmano , , a criminal defense law firm that specializes in ...

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Hartford Courant

South Windsor: Connecticut Art School Joins The Fight Against Germs

School Stuff Submitted by Sharon Cavanaugh, Connecticut Art School, on 2009-11-17.   Sharon Cavanaugh Back row - Erik Winkler, Julia Martocchio, Sara Guerette, and Evan Smagacz.

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Related Topix: Sharon, CT, Tolland, CT

Reuters

Connecticut governorship in play as Rell drops out

President Barack Obama's Democratic Party, which lost two state governorships last week, drew hope for winning the governor's office in Connecticut next year after the Republican incumbent said she would not run for re-election. Jodi Rell, in office since 2004, said on Monday she would not seek another term, setting the stage for a wide-open ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, Joseph Lieberman, US News, US Senate, 2008 Presidential Election, Connecticut Government, Barack Obama, University of Connecticut

The Huffington Post

Jacob M. Appel: Beyond Guantanamo: Torture Thrives in Connecticut

Opponents of torture have spent the past seven years advocating for a halt to the brutal excesses of the "War on Terror" from the Bush Administration's rejection of the Geneva Conventions for detainees in Afghanastan to the waterboarding of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Connecticut Government, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Hartford Courant

Eastern Connecticut: Mid Connecticut Junior Football League

Local Sports Submitted by Jeannine Kremzar on 2009-11-16.   MidConn Junior Football league is looking for donations to send an elite group of 8th Grade all-stars to Kissimmee, Florida for a national championship.

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Related Topix: Hartford Metro, Hartford, CT, New Haven Metro, Meriden, CT, Wallingford, CT

The Day

700 Connecticut soldiers are off to battle

Sgt. Sam Crespo of the Connecticut Army National Guard, 250th Multi-Role Bridge Company and a resident of New London, holds his 3-year-old daughter, Zaela, during a send-off ceremony for 700 troops being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan Sunday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Representative Joe Courtney, Democrat, US National Guard, US Military, New London Metro, New London, CT, Hartford, CT

Sun Nov 15, 2009

WJTV Jackson

Medical Errors Hidden After Conn. Law Changed

Changes made five years ago to a Connecticut law aimed at revealing medical mistakes at hospitals have allowed the facilities to keep more errors secret, a Hartford Courant analysis shows.

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Related Topix: Connecticut Government

1010Wins

Conn. Army National Guard Deploying 700 to Mideast

Two units of the Connecticut Army National Guard are sending 700 soldiers to the Middle East in the largest single deployment of Connecticut guard members since the Korean War.

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Related Topix: US National Guard, US Military, Hartford Metro

The Day

Connecticut marks one-year anniversary of gay marriage

Gay and lesbian couples marked the one-year anniversary of the day Connecticut began allowing same-sex marriages, voicing optimism that other states eventually will follow suit despite recent votes in Maine and California where gay-marriage rights were shot down.

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Related Topix: Wedding, Connecticut Government, Gay/Lesbian, Middletown, CT

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Xchange

CWA in Connecticut: AT&T Wona t Talk To Us

Just two days after AT&T union workers in the company's Southwest region ratified a new contract after a long dispute, we've learned some employees in the Northeast might be no closer to a deal than they were several months ago.

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Related Topix: Connecticut Government

Gary-weiss.com

Asleep in Connecticut

My very first job was at the Hartford Courant's Groton-New London bureau, so I had a very personal interest in the front page New York Times story the other day on how New London was royally screwed by Pfizer--pulling out of a redevelopment project after the city fought up to the Supreme Court, in Kelo vs.

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Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph

Connecticut Politicians Play Solitaire, Talk Smack

This marvelous photo of the Connecticut legislature is making the rounds, occasionally mislabeled as a photo of the U.S. Congress: An accompanying article in the New Haven Register tracks the nasty fallout from the discovery that politicians totally get sick of each other yapping all the time.

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Related Topix: Connecticut Government, US News

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Hartford Courant

West Hartford: Connecticut Group Meets To Oppose Government Run Health Care

Submitted by Alisa Gaudiosi, Connecticut Campaign for Responsible Health Reform, on 2009-11-09.   Alisa Gaudiosi Bill Carew, a Simsbury resident and President of Ovation Benefits in Farmington, makes a presentation to The Connecticut Campaign for Responsible Health Reform group opposing the legislation and increased costs to small employers at ...

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Related Topix: US Politics, Joseph Lieberman, US News, US Senate, Simsbury, CT, Farmington, CT, West Hartford, CT, Hartford Metro

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