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READER SUBMITTED: TCBY Comes To Bloomfield
BloomfieldThe frozen yogurt franchise TCBY is coming to town in time for the Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 27. Mark and Lisa Arnold of Simsbury are opening their third TCBY shop in June in Wintonbury Mall. Although it won't be open by Memorial Day, the couple...Tags: Memorial Day, Crohn's Disease, Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Simsbury
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Bill Letting Newtown Families Veto Disclosure Of Records Might Raise Fairness Issues, Officials Say
The Hartford CourantThe secretly drafted bill that would give Newtown massacre victims' families the power to veto disclosure of some investigative records might create a broader precedent — because future crime victims' families could ask for the same power in their...Tags: Government, Criminals, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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Newtown And Oklahoma: A School Day, A Sudden Loss Of Young Lives, A Common Bond
The Hartford CourantBy Tuesday morning, they began collecting donations in town offices for families ravaged by the Oklahoma tornadoes. Newtown, a universe away from Moore, Okla., feels the pain of the destruction more deeply, more intimately. Here, they know, because they...Tags: Gun Control, Human Interest, Tornadoes, Personal Weapon Control, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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"Sandy Hook Green" Nail Polish Meant To Show Support
Sandy Hook Promise, the Connecticut organization founded following the Newtown massacre, continues to expand their brand and advance their mission, most recently with the release of a limited-edition nail polish, "Sandy Hook Green." Leading nail product...
Tags: Lobbying, Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Service, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Keeping A Mother's Promise
The gravity of the moment that comes with holding your child for the first time — looking into their eyes, rocking them to sleep, allowing their breath to fill your heart, marveling at how nature has taken a part of you and a part of your husband to...Tags: Gun Control, Superman (fictional character), Mother's Day, Gabrielle Giffords, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Latest Maryland and Delaware news, sports, business and entertainment:
Md. woman plans referendum petition on gun bill ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Montgomery County woman says she is planning a petition effort to get Maryland's gun control bill put to a popular vote. Sue Payne tells WBAL-AM that she hopes to have a...Tags: Jack Markell, Martin O'Malley, Lobbying, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues
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Stirred by a message from the heart
WASHINGTON -- In a city where David's righteousness almost never beats Goliath's might, what Nicole Hockley and the other Sandy Hook families did to the gun lobby last week was nigh unto miraculous. Gun-control legislation had appeared to be a lost...
Tags: Republican Party, Lobbying, Crime, Law and Justice, Autism, Patrick J. Toomey
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Newtown Families Make Their Case In Washington
The Hartford CourantWASHINGTON — At the end of an emotional day of deeply personal meetings with senators Wednesday, families of victims of the Newtown school massacre sat down for a public conversation with Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who had just...Tags: Chuck Grassley, Republican Party, Shootings, Patrick J. Toomey, Barack Obama
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Sandy Hook families push for votes on gun control
WASHINGTON -- Family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims are bewildered that Congress is still struggling to pass stricter gun laws, Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday afternoon. Speaking to a room full of police in uniform at a White House event,...
Tags: Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Senate, Elections, Gun Control
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President Obama to meet with families of Sandy Hook victims
HARTFORD, Conn. -- President Obama will meet Monday with family members of victims killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School to talk about their efforts to persuade Congress to pass gun control measures in response to the tragedy....
Tags: Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, University of Hartford, Family, Crime, Law and Justice
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Connecticut governor signs tough gun-control law
Four months after a lone gunman shattered the normal morning activities of a Connecticut elementary school in a fearsome shooting spree of 154 bullets in less than five minutes, that state’s governor on Thursday signed a tough gun-control law, the...
Tags: Lobbying, Weaponry, Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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U.S. senator rips NRA for making robocalls to Newtown residents
The National Rifle Assn. is taking heat from a U.S. senator after accusations that the organization robocalled Newtown, Conn., residents and urged them to oppose gun-control legislation. Stricter gun laws have been proposed in legislatures all over...
Tags: Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Adam Lanza, The Huffington Post, Wayne LaPierre
May 23, 2013
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May 13, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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Apr 15, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 9, 2013
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Apr 8, 2013
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Apr 4, 2013
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Mar 25, 2013
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