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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, Arts and Culture, Simsbury, Festive Events, Crohn's Disease
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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: New London (New London, Connecticut), Criminals, Health and Safety at School, Prosecution, Crime Victims
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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: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Natural Disasters, Gun Control, Tornadoes, Personal Weapon Control
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Emotions run high at Yarmouth 5K
Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.Loss can divide. It can also unite. On Sunday hundreds of runners, family and friends -- old and new -- came together on South Shore Drive in front of The Skipper Restaurant to support each other, coalescing around a seeming onslaught of tragedies up...Tags: Boston Marathon, Bombings, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Carlos', Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Personal Service, Laws
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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: Dannel P. Malloy , Gabrielle Giffords, Superman (fictional character), Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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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, Chris Murphy, Joe Manchin III, 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: Elections, Republican Party, Chris Murphy, Chuck Grassley, Joe Manchin III
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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: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Family, University of Hartford, Gun Control, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Elections, White House, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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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: Andrew Cuomo, Health and Safety at School, Agriculture, Periodicals, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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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: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, National Rifle Association of America, Wayne LaPierre, The Huffington Post, Gun Control
May 24, 2013
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Apr 15, 2013
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Mar 25, 2013
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