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Connecticut is epicenter of gun violence prevention movement. Advocates ‘are at the forefront because we had to be’

HARTFORD, Conn. — Among the many that gathered at the University of Hartford for the National Safer Communities Summit last week were dozens of activists whose work to bring about federal gun reform legislation is rooted right here in Connecticut.

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Biden, speaking near site of Sandy Hook shooting, renews call for assault weapons ban

HARTFORD, Conn. — Highlighting Connecticut’s role as a national leader in gun safety, President Joe Biden traveled Friday to West Hartford to hail the most comprehensive gun law in the past three decades and renew his call for a federal ban on assault weapons.

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12 Rickie Fowler and Allison Stokke Fowler photos of the couple over the years

A look back at the couple over the years.

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New UConn guard Cam Spencer was once a recruit from Baltimore nobody wanted

HARTFORD, Conn. — Cliff Rees, the former head basketball coach at Boys Latin School of Maryland, has had several former players go on to play in college, but none like Cam Spencer.

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Dom Amore: The Whalers left Hartford, but the hope of bringing them back never goes away

ROCKY HILL, Conn. — As Governor Ned Lamont was on his way in to the ballroom to make some remarks to the Small Business Summit, he was stopped bright and early Tuesday by a sportswriter with an on-topic question.

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Connecticut House approves major gun control bill as Republicans blast attack on ‘citizens’ rights’

HARTFORD, Conn. — One day after the one-year anniversary of the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Connecticut legislators passed the state’s most comprehensive gun-control package since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings more than a decade ago.

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UConn men’s basketball team to make fifth White House visit Friday

HARTFORD, Conn. — The last time the UConn men’s basketball team visited the White House, the Huskies had company.

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Black children are more likely to have asthma. A lot comes down to where they live

Black children are more likely to have asthma than kids of any other race in America

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Dom Amore: If Big 12 calls, UConn will have to choose between Big East love and Power Five money

HARTFORD, Conn. — The head follows the money. The heart wants what it wants.

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Return of the Whalers? Connecticut Gov. requests meeting with NHL over Arizona Coyotes’ future.

HARTFORD, Conn. — The NHL’s Arizona Coyotes may soon have a new home, and Gov. Ned Lamont and Mayor Luke Bronin would like it to be Hartford.

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Snarling mugshot of fearsome man who 'pulled knife on sergeant and wants to kill cops'

Raymond Lapinski from Hartford, Connecticut, is accused of threatening to kill police officers. His mugshot went viral after he posed gnarling in the face of law enforcement

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Girl, 12, shot in head and killed a few miles from where dad was brutally gunned down

Se'Cret Pierce was hit in the head by a stray bullet on April 20 while sat in a parked car in Hartford, Connecticut - just over 10 years after her father, Shane Oliver, was shot in the back just several miles away

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Gunfire took their son at 20. Now it takes his daughter, 12

A Connecticut family is reeling from its latest ordeal because of gun violence

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Family left 'broken' after girl, 12, shot in head and killed in drive-by crossfire

12-year-old Secret Pierce was caught up in a gunfire on Thursday evening in Hartford Connecticut which left three others wounded. She was rushed to hospital but tragically died

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12-year-old girl killed, 3 others injured in drive-by shooting in Hartford

HARTFORD, Conn. — A 12-year-old girl was killed Thursday night after she was shot in the head during a drive-by quadruple shooting in Hartford in which police say she happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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12-year-old girl killed, 3 other people injured in drive-by shooting in Hartford

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Girl, 12, shot in head and killed in drive-by shooting crossfire as teen fights for life

A girl aged just 12 has been caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting in Hartford, Connecticut - three others were shot including an 18-year-old man and police fear the young girl was a bystander to the horror

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With the help of a UConn business professor, Adama Sanogo is one step closer to his dream of building schools for kids in Mali

HARTFORD, Conn. — When Adama Sanogo started working with Championship Labs, a class within UConn’s Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation that helps student-athletes with navigating name, image and likeness opportunities, he had to start building his own personal brand.

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Judge ends Hartford police consent decree despite concerns

A judge has ended the nearly 50 years of federal oversight of police in Hartford, Connecticut

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UConn’s Adama Sanogo announces he’s entering NBA draft

HARTFORD, Conn. — Adama Sanogo, who was named the Most Outstanding Player at the Final Four after leading the UConn men to the national championship, is putting is name in for the NBA draft.

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He says it was hard to ‘come out’ about his cancer. Here’s why he wants to tell everyone now

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Iran Brugueras, a longtime fixture on Hartford’s Park Street as owner of Hip Stop clothing and shoe store, is going on a journey. Actually, Brugueras is on three different journeys.

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Why is UConn’s Jordan Hawkins ranked so low on some NBA mock draft boards?

HARTFORD, Conn. — UConn fans who saw Jordan Hawkins play this season know that he’s got what it takes to be very good at the next level.

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Blumenthal to have surgery after breaking leg in parade

Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal was scheduled to undergo surgery Sunday after breaking his leg during a parade in Hartford celebrating the University of Connecticut men’s basketball team.

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Sophomore star Jordan Hawkins leaving UConn, headed for NBA draft

HARTFORD, Conn. — Fresh off helping the UConn men’s basketball team to a national championship, superstar sophomore Jordan Hawkins declared for the NBA draft, he announced Friday sitting alongside head coach Dan Hurley on ESPN’s NBA Today.

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Connecticut Gov. calls Houston ‘butt ugly’ after visiting for Final Four; Texas does not take it well

HARTFORD, Conn. — The UConn men’s basketball team was the talk of Houston after cruising to a national championship on Monday, but Houston’s attention has turned from the brilliance of the Huskies to the perceived ignorance of Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont after comments he made about the host city.

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