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McConnell says he'll support a gun reform bill if it matches the proposed framework

A bill would include incentives for states to pass red-flag laws, funding for school safety and mental health resources, expanded background checks and more.

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McConnell says he supports Senate bipartisan gun bill framework

"If the legislation ends up reflecting what the framework indicated, I'll be supportive."

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Spartans offer elite 2024 4-star DL Jerod Smith

Michigan State football has extended a scholarship offer to the top player in Connecticut for the 2024 class

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‘We’re not safe’: Examining the impact of WNBA travel issues in a condensed 2022 season

HARTFORD, Conn. — Natasha Cloud felt like she was playing the best basketball of her career to start the 2022 WNBA season. Then, after a road game against the Minnesota Lynx on May 8, the Washington Mystics star tested positive for COVID-19.

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Should Robb Elementary be rebuilt? Here's what other school shooting sites did

In Newtown, Conn., a new Sandy Hook Elementary opened in 2016, four years after the shooting there. In other places, some have said that leaving buildings in place can offer survivors a way to heal.

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Biden calls McConnell, Cornyn "rational Republicans" who could move on gun control

Biden says he believes there is "recognition on their part that they can't continue like this."

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For the parents and families of the Sandy Hook victims, every mass shooting is re-traumatizing

HARTFORD, Conn. — Mark Barden said that all week he’s been keeping track of the timeline the families in Uvalde, Texas, are on.

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Best medicine is true blue: As Caroline Ducharme rehabs, her UConn women’s basketball family provides the perfect remedy

HARTFORD, Conn. — Chrissy Ducharme had a moment of realization as she watched her daughter lie in bed post surgery surrounded by her UConn women’s basketball teammates at The Graduate hotel in Storrs.

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McConnell directs Cornyn to work with Democrats on bipartisan gun legislation

Senate Democrats had already expressed interested in having Cornyn as the point of contact for talks.

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Dom Amore: Ex-Whaler Ray Ferraro a voice to be reckoned with as lends his analysis to NHL playoff broadcasts

HARTFORD, Conn. — A new cluster of fans is tuning in to playoff hockey with its exciting games and series and star players unfolding on ESPN, TNT and ABC. Ratings are high, up 15% from the pre-pandemic playoffs of 2019, setting records during the first round.

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‘Another Sandy Hook:’ Connecticut lawmakers, officials respond to hauntingly familiar shooting in Texas

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s lawmakers said they were heartbroken Tuesday at the news of a deadly Texas elementary school shooting that is hauntingly familiar to the elementary school massacre that took 26 lives in Newtown 10 years ago.

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Sen. Murphy begs for gun compromise after Texas shooting

Connecticut U.S. Chris Murphy came to Congress representing Sandy Hook

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Judge Alice Bruno, who collected $400,000 or more while missing years of work, has agreed to an unpaid suspension

HARTFORD, Conn. — Superior Court Judge Alice Bruno, who has collected as much as $400,000 in salary while missing nearly 2 1/2 years of work for what she describes as stress-related health problems, has agreed amid an ongoing investigation to a suspension from her position without pay effective June 2.

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Former UConn women’s basketball star Tamika Williams-Jeter is right at home as Dayton head coach

HARTFORD, Conn. — As she drove to the University of Dayton in late March, Tamika Williams-Jeter still hadn’t fully processed the fact that she was the new head women’s basketball coach for her hometown school.

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Nathan Carman, subject of bizarre ordeal at sea in 2016, now accused of killing mother, grandfather to boost inheritance

HARTFORD, Conn. — Nathan Carman, who was rescued at sea after what he called a freak boating accident in 2016 that took his mother’s life, was accused by federal authorities in Vermont Tuesday of killing her and his grandfather in a cold-blooded scheme to increase his share of a family…

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Once a Hartford treasure, J. Doyle Dewitt collection of historic American political memorabilia sold at auction

HARTFORD, Conn. — The University of Hartford has quietly sold one of the most extraordinary collections of American political memorabilia ever assembled — a collection one of the city’s insurance titans spent a lifetime assembling and later donated to the school in the hope that it would be preserved and…

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‘Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition’ gives Michelangelo’s masterpiece a fresh angle at Connecticut Convention Center

HARTFORD, Conn. — God, saints, angels — and the most famous outstretched hands in world history — are reaching out to you, larger than life in “Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition” at the Connecticut Convention Center.

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Martin Schram: A supreme conning of America’s women

Let’s tell the blatant truth right up-front: Senate Republicans are understandably upset by the leaking of the Supreme Court’s always-secret draft opinion. Especially this supremely controversial one.

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Connecticut Senate passes abortion bill after emotional debate; Gov. Lamont pledges signature

HARTFORD, Conn. — With a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling months away, the state Senate debated emotionally Friday night before approving a key abortion bill that would be the most far-reaching in Connecticut in the past 32 years.

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Mother-daughter team from Connecticut sentenced for part in Jan. 6 Capitol riot

HARTFORD, Conn. — The Canterbury mother and daughter who went into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot in 2021 were sentenced Friday, with the mom ordered to go to jail for five weekends, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

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Connecticut Gov. Lamont pledges to sign key abortion bill passed by House as US Supreme Court ruling awaits

HARTFORD, Conn. — With a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling months away, Gov. Ned Lamont pledged Tuesday to sign a key abortion bill that would be the most consequential in Connecticut in the last 32 years.

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Connecticut Gov. Lamont pledges to sign key abortion bill; debate in House continues

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Connecticut Gov. Lamont pledges to sign key abortion bill as House prepares to debate

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Connecticut may be vastly undercounting its COVID-19 cases. Here’s why

HARTFORD, Conn. — According to official state numbers, Connecticut has recorded 3,939 positive COVID-19 tests in the past week, most in a seven-day period since early March.

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