The spectrum of political responses to gun violence is neatly defined by two policy measures that advanced over the last 24 hours: new gun registration, permits and paperwork in Connecticut and in a Georgia small town mandatory ownership. That these are the poles, though, suggests that opponents of new gun laws have already largely won.
State Rep. Ernest Hewett told a 17-year-old girl, "If you're bashful I got a snake sitting under my desk here." In public. On the record. At a legislative hearing. While she was testifying about a program to overcome social anxiety of the very sort you might develop if a creep humiliates you by saying sexual things about you in public.
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In his first post-Newtown State of the State address Wednesday, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy said Washington's delays on national gun legislation were "unacceptable" and rejected the NRA's proposal to put a gun in every American school.
The latest info from the investigation in Connecticut indicates that Nancy Lanza may have left her son alone at home before the shootings, and begins to paint a clearer picture of Adam Lanza himself.
In a mysterious, confusing case, there are so far very few surprises, but there are already lessons worth learning.
When President Obama took the stage Sunday evening in Newtown, Connecticut, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. By the time he read the names of the victims, you could hear the sobs.
A small town has been poisoned by history, a parish that will never need its state mentioned after it — a new kind of Columbine, and worse.
The failed Senate candidate is playing the "deny everything" game after a report that one of her campaign staffers received a cruel kind of severance pay.
Not even a 'heel turn' could help her. Linda McMahon lost her second bid for a senate seat in Connecticut to Democratic challenger Chris Murphy. The Associated Press called the race in Murphy's favor already.
Running as a down-ballot Republican in a deep blue state has its challenges, but Senate candidate Linda McMahon might have found a last-minute solution: Pretend you're not a Republican!
Today in Poll Watch: Gallup has brought Romney's lead down to three, Murphy is now up by six in Connecticut, a new poll shows cause for concern for Obama when it comes to enthusiasm, and two polls show how tight it is in Ohio.
Today in Poll Watch: Insta-polls give President Obama the second debate, and the Connecticut Senate race is still in a dead heat.
Debate viewers think Mitt Romney beat President Obama, and the Connecticut senate race is basically tied. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
The New Jersey governor may have appeared at the GOP convention last night, but a poll from his state shows Obama with a strong lead. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
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We're in convention season and it looks like Romney is lacking on questions of empathy. Meanwhile the two candidates are tied in North Carolina, DNC territory, while Obama holds leads in Connecticut and Iowa. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
The news of a Connecticut woman who finally extricated a $10,491 rebate from her power company after she was charged for 25 years for the electricity going to the streetlights near her house means we should all probably be checking our bills a lot more closely.
A Pew national poll shows Obama with a 10-point lead, the suburbs are tricky for the candidates, and New Jersey and Connecticut lean Obama. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Connecticut became the 17th state to make medical marijuana legal on Friday, but before New Yorkers with headaches and back pain jump on the first Metro North see a doctor, you should know: This is a far less forgiving law that in other states.
For a candidate like Romney, viewed in some Republican circles as a consolation prize in an election year in which stronger and more conservative politicians took a pass, Tuesday’s turnout could help “express’’ the enthusiasm gap, if it exists.
We do not know exactly what happened with the Morgan Stanley executive arrested for balking on his fare and then stabbing the cab driver outside his home, but we do that Jennings is in for a hell of a time in the press.
The head of the East Haven, Conn., police department will step down instead of face firing after four of his officers got arrested by the F.B.I. for harassing Latinos.
The tragic story of a deadly Christmas Day fire in Connecticut took another sad turn after it was reported that the woman who survived attempted to kill herself.
The latest news from that horrible Christmas day fire in Stamford, Connecticut, comes from the local coroner's office, which announced on Wednesday that all five of the victims died of smoke inhalation.
Details continue to emerge about the fire that killed five people and destroyed the Stamford, Conn. home of fashion branding executive Madonna Badger, and the latest is that fire officials confirmed that fireplace embers were disposed of inside the house just a couple hours before the fire broke out.
It turns out the "Greenwich asset managers win the $245 million jackpot to the chagrin of everyone" story may be more complicated: the people you see slightly smiling pictured may have just been collecting the money for a client, according to a neighbor who has talked with plenty of media outlets.
In today's feel-bad story of the day, three asset managers, two of whom live in Greenwich, Connecticut, won a $254 million jackpot in the Powerball lottery, the Associated Press reports.
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