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Donald Trump endorses Leora Levy for US Senate in Connecticut

HARTFORD, Conn. — In a surprise to Republicans, former President Donald Trump endorsed Leora Levy for U.S. Senate on Thursday night — throwing drama into Tuesday’s Republican primary.

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Former UConn stars Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi and others react to Paige Bueckers’ ACL tear and where the Huskies go from here

HARTFORD, Conn. — When Breanna Stewart heard UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers had torn the ACL in her left knee this week, she couldn’t help but think back to her own experience going through injuries, most notably an Achilles tendon tear in 2019.

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Dom Amore: Brittney Griner verdict, sentence, leaves us to only wait and hope for a nightmare to end

HARTFORD, Conn. — Brittney Griner stared blankly from behind white bars as the ruling was translated for her. Her eyes were empty and when they did shift focus it was only downward.

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Dom Amore: Paige Bueckers torn ACL a punch to the gut of UConn women’s basketball and to those who’ve grown to love watching her play

HARTFORD, Conn. — The iPhone shook and the email popped up at 3:17 p.m. On a nondescript summer day what could the UConn women’s basketball program be announcing? A scheduling change, a new NIL deal, a bit of routine housekeeping?

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A Connecticut lawyer has gotten 522 years taken off prison sentences. He’s not done

HARTFORD, Conn. — There aren’t a lot of attorneys who are making it their mission to get inmates out of prison before they’ve served out their sentences.

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Dom Amore: Sue Bird’s Connecticut farewell is another indication she’s leaving basketball in style

HARTFORD, Conn. — Sue Bird tried to make like it just another day, another game and another fond farewell as her season of fond farewells winds down.

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Cannabis Regulatory Update: South Dakota, Colorado, Tennessee, Connecticut, D.C.

The First State-Licensed Medical Marijuana Dispensary is Now Open in Hartford, South Dakota

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Current generation of UConn players reflect on ‘GOAT’ status, impact of the legendary Sue Bird

HARTFORD, Conn. — Growing up in Croatia, Nika Mühl didn’t follow UConn women’s basketball, or really any American sports for that matter. She was more in tune with European hoops. But as soon as she committed to the Huskies in her junior season of high school, Mühl made a point…

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Connecticut tattoo parlor offering designs as fundraiser for pro-choice rights groups, ‘solidarity in the fight for reproductive freedom’

HARTFORD, Conn. -- One of the tattoos depicts a gravestone with the word “Patriarchy” across it.

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Former UConn greats Jim Calhoun and Richard Hamilton selected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2022

HARTFORD, Conn. — Former UConn men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun and Huskies All-American Richard Hamilton were selected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame on Wednesday.

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As the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, Connecticut continues to be ‘safe harbor’ for women seeking an abortion

HARTFORD, Conn. — As the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade national protections for abortion on Friday, Connecticut has become a “safe harbor” for women seeking an abortion.

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Brooks Koepka withdraws from Travelers Championship; Justin Thomas also out with sore back

HARTFORD, Conn. — As expected, Brooks Koepka is out of the Travelers Championship field, the PGA announced late Tuesday.

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Parents of 4-month-old shot and killed in fight with neighbour over dog

‘This is the continuation of a very distressing trend that we are seeing not just in Hartford, but around the state and around the country,’ mayor says

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Lori Riley: Sue Bird’s journey from Long Island legend to Storrs superstar to sports icon

HARTFORD, Conn. — I remember going to Sue Bird’s house on Long Island right before she came to UConn.

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Video captures 12-year-old boy robbing gas station with his grandfather’s gun

The boy had reportedly discussed with classmates which gas station was the least secure, police say

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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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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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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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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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