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Connecticut Starting Over In School Funding Race To The Top
The announcement, made at the Legislative Office Building, came just two hours after the Obama administration said it had rejected the state's application for $192 million in the competition for federal school-reform stimulus money.
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Settlement In Connecticut Boy's Shooting With Uzi At Sports Club;...
A sportsman's club has pleaded no contest in the tragic death of an 8-year-old boy from Connecticut who shot himself by mistake in 2008 when he could not handle the recoil of an Uzi machine gun in Massachusetts.
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Sunday Sales Bill Dies In Legislative Committee
Stores will not be able to sell alcohol on Sundays. A bill that would allow them to do so died in the program review and investigations committee Thursday.
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Mass. club settles charges in boy's Uzi death
A Massachusetts sporting club has settled charges in the accidental death of an 8-year-old Connecticut boy who shot himself with an Uzi during a 2008 gun fair at the club.
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Conn. Woman Crashes Camry After Gas Pedal Sticks
A Connecticut woman says the gas pedal on her 2007 Toyota Camry got stuck as she was driving it to the dealer.
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DMV Commissioner Proposes Civil Penalties For Owners Of Unsafe School Buses
The state motor vehicles commissioner Wednesday suggested that legislators expand the laws guiding school bus inspections to allow the department to levy civil penalties against companies that chronically fail to fix buses.
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Guilford Man Sentenced to Three Years in Federal Prison for Role in Narcotics Ring
March 10, 2010 - Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT KALMAN, 39, of Guilford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to sell cocaine.
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Farmington: It's Time to Show Your Shorts, Connecticut
People Submitted by Taylor Haskell on 2010-03-10.   It's time to show your shorts, Connecticut! Tunxis Community College's First Annual Short Film Festival is coming May 14th, 2010.
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Connecticut's Maple Season Is a Sweet Tradition
Warm days and cold nights are sweet stuff to the state's maple producers. These are ideal conditions for pushing maple trees' sugary sap up the trunk toward the leaves, rendering it available to those who are in the business of collecting it.
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Connecticut DOT To Pitch $50 Million Resurfacing Project, Plus Bridge Repairs
A heavily traveled section of I-84 in West Hartford, sections of Route 9 near Deep River and a 6-mile stretch of I-291 in South Windsor are among the 44 road resurfacing projects that state officials will ask the bond commission to approve this month.
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Unsafe School Buses
A co-chairman of the General Assembly's education committee said Monday that he will push for legislation to identify and keep unsafe school buses off Connecticut's roads.
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HARTFORD: Rell Orders New Proposals for Girls Center
Gov. M. Jodi Rell says the state will seek new proposals for a planned juvenile detention facility for girls after legislators from Bridgeport and Hamden opposed plans to site the center in their communities.
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CT woman stabbed, tells cops: 'I can't believe I'm going to die.'
A 49-year-old Connecticut man has been arraigned on charges of killing his estranged wife as she called 911 for help.
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Seniors pinched by new charges for home care help
Rising property taxes, failing eyesight and even a tumble that cracked her tailbone haven't forced 89-year-old Angeline DiBeneditto from the home she's had for more than six decades.
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Conn. Seeks to Dismiss Assisted-Suicide Lawsuit
A Connecticut judge is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit filed by two doctors and end-of-life advocates who want a clarification of the state's ban on assisted suicide.
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Mt. Washington 50th lottery registration through March 15: Running Around in Connecticut
The lottery for entries into the 50th running of the Mt. Washington Road Race is up and running now until March 15.
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Gershwin comes alive in Connecticut Playmakers revue
Gershwin comes alive in Connecticut Playmakers revue NORWALK By KEITH LORIA Hour Correspondent Whether it's the touching "Someone to Watch Over Me" or the unforgettable "Rhapsody in Blue," legendary composer George Gershwin has penned some of the most popular and recognizable pieces of music of our time.
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Connecticut One Of The Most Expensive States For Healthcare
Connecticut had the fifth most expensive group health insurance premiums in 2008 and has seen accelerating increases since, placing the state squarely in the national debate about out-of-control premium hikes.
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AT&T Replaces Ramona Carlow With Rodney Smith As Connecticut President
AT&T today named Rodney A. Smith, a former lobbyist and onetime public relations officer, as president of its Connecticut business.
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Feds Look At Worker Fatigue In Conn. Blast
A federal agency investigating a power plant explosion in Connecticut that killed six workers last month says some workers were putting in long hours and they're looking into whether fatigue played a role.
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