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Connecticut Commuter Trains Collide, Injuries Reported
(FAIRFIELD, Conn.) — A New York-area commuter railroad says two trains have collided in Connecticut, and there are preliminary reports of injuries. The...
WATCH: Saturday Night Live Pays Tribute to Victims of Connecticut School Shooting
This week, SNL was in the unique -- and, we imagine, rather difficult -- position of airing a show just one day after the tragic school shooting in Newtown,...
Rock Formation Bigger Than Connecticut Found Floating in Pacific
There's something you don't see every day.
Connecticut Man Calls 911 Because Local Deli is Making His Sandwich Wrong
A Connecticut man called 911 on Wednesday to report a deli was making his sandwich wrong. “I specifically asked for, um, little um, turkey, and little, um, ham...
The Nation: Toehold in Connecticut
In two centuries of American politics, there have been only three women Governors, and all threeNellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas...
Connecticut Colossi: Connecticut Colossi In Gargantualand
In Gargantualand With graceful constellations of wire and drifting metal, young Alexander Calder made sculpture airborne. Today, more than 30 years since he...
CONNECTICUT: Cure for Speeders
Last December Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff decided to take drastic action to reduce his state's automobile accident rate. On his order...
Cinema: Snow White in Connecticut
My Six Loves will put a lump in the throat of everyone who likes to have one there. Debbie Reynolds is a battle-fatigued Snow White who flees from the...
CONNECTICUT: Time
Coincident with the arrival in the U. S. of a copy of the 724-year-old Magna Charta (see p. 77), Connecticut last week became the 48th State to ratify the...
RETAIL TRADE: Connecticut Invasion
Outside a glassy new brick and marble store in West Hartford, Conn, last week, a squad of men worked feverishly wiring 40,000 artificial appleblossoms to a...
CONNECTICUT: Outfoxed
Ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles, who has little political experience but great ambition, seemed a cinch to be the Democratic nominee for governor of...
Business: In Connecticut
Usually a willing autographer is Yale's Professor William Lyon Phelps. But when recently the New Haven Clearing House, raising $500,000 to help New Haven's...
National Affairs: In Connecticut
When the underworld freezes over, the chances of snowballs will be im- proved and likewise the chances of Democrats in Connecticut. The Democrats have carried...
Connecticut Lawmakers to Vote on Gun Control Package
(HARTFORD, Conn.) — Responding to one of the worst massacres in state history, Connecticut lawmakers on Wednesday are expected to pass a package of gun control...
In Connecticut, Biden Urges Action on Gun Control
Vice President Joe Biden is trying to rally support for the administration's proposals to curb gun violence, saying there will be a moral price to pay for...
Did ‘Lincoln’ Put Connecticut on the Wrong Side of History?
(HARTFORD, Conn.) — As Rep. Joe Courtney watched the Oscar-nominated "Lincoln" over the weekend, something didn't seem right to him. He said Tuesday he was...
Obama Pledges ‘Meaningful Action’ After Connecticut Shooting
Wiping tears from his eyes, President Barack Obama urged the nation to "come together" in the wake of a shooting that left more than two dozen people dead, many...
Thousands of Tacos Delievered to Connecticut Mayor After Controversial Remark
The backlash against East Haven, Conn. Mayor Joseph Maturo, who said “I might have tacos” in response to a question about what he would do for the Latino...
Connecticut Money Managers Win $254 Million Powerball Jackpot
The 99% just collectively rolled their eyes.
CONNECTICUT: Unreasonable Restraint
Still stirring controversy in Connecticut last week was a relic of the long-forgotten crusades of Anthony Comstock (1844-1915) and his bluenose New York...
