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Hartford CT - Chabad Centers Around Connecticut Under Law Enforcement Alert

Hartford, CT - Chabad-Lubavitch centers, synagogues and Jewish community institutions throughout Connecticut took heightened security precautions on Tuesday after receiving an alert from law enforcement and state authorities that the prime suspect in a fatal shooting at Wesleyan University could be specifically targeting the campus and its Jewish community. According to Rabbi Yisrael Deren, the head...

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Conn. lawmakers ratify gay-marriage decision

HARTFORD - Connecticut lawmakers voted late yesterday to update the state's marriage laws to conform with last fall's landmark state Supreme Court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry. A spokesman for Governor M. Jodi Rell said she will sign the bill into law.

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Decriminalize Pot

Hartford, C.T. — Few people go to jail for possessing small amounts of pot, anyway, so why is the state spending millions to arrest and prosecute...

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Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Induct Two Leaders & Three Organizations At Upcoming Third Annual Induction Ceremony On Friday, April 3, 2009 In Hartford, CT

Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Induct Two Leaders & Three Organizations At Upcoming Third Annual Induction Ceremony On Friday, April 3, 2009 In Hartford, CT - Members Of The "Class of 2008" Include Stafford Motor Speedway, Connecticut Economic Resource Center, Alcoa Howmet, Gloria McAdam From Foodshare and Jim Barnes From Oakleaf Waste & Recycling - <?xml:namespace prefix

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Answers sought for bat die-off

HARTFORD, Conn., March 29 (UPI) -- Scientists say they are racing to discover what it is causing a massive die-off of bats in Connecticut before the condition spreads to the U.S. South. As many as 90 percent of Connecticut's bats have died during winter hibernation after being infected by a rare fungus usually only found in Arctic tundra regions, and scientists are working to find a cause before the...

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Sunday's onsale list for 3-29-2009

SUNDAY'S ONSALE LIST 10 am Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus XL CENTER Hartford, CT The 2009 WBCN Rock N Roll Rumble Semifinals Night 1 Middle East Cambridge, MA Apr 16, 2009 1:00 pm Alpha Blondy The Independent San Francisco, CA Apr 27, [...]

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18th Century Math, 21st Century Road Safety

What possible connection could there be between an eighteenth century British Presbyterian minister and preventing road traffic accidents in Hartford, Connecticut? Everything, according to a report in the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications.

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AG seeks to nix AIG bonuses for 2010

HARTFORD, Conn., March 27 (UPI) -- The Connecticut attorney general said Friday he'll try to stop $230 million in additional bonuses scheduled for American International Group Inc. employees. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he will ask Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to prevent the bonuses scheduled for payout in March 2010, the Stamford (Conn.) Advocate reported. Blumenthal, a Democrat,...

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Make Do and Mend: "Bodies of Water"

Our stream today comes from Hartford, CT-based Make Do and Mend . We've got a stream of the band's EP, Bodies of Water . You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile

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Webster sold to MassConcerts

HARTFORD, CT -- An era is over for the Webster Theatre as it falls upon new ownership. More than 70 years of family ownership has ended with the sale of the Webster Theatre in Hartford to a Massachusetts concert promoter. Justine Robertson, whose family built the Barry Square movie house in 1937, has sold the venue for an undisclosed price to John Peters, who takes control of the 1,250-capacity rock...

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Fergus Calls for Connecticut Cow Massacre

Looks like we won't have Fergus Cullen to kick around anymore. NH Political Grapevine noticed he wrote an editorial advocating the slaughter of cows as a way to wean those lazy socialist dairy farmers off their gummit welfare checks subsidies. No seriously, I'm not making that up. In the Hartford Courant . As in, Hartford, Connecticut. Turns out he's the new director of the Yankee Institute . This...

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Connecticut AG Targets AIG Employee Who Does Not Work For AIG-”Death Threats”

This is just too much and what happens when publicity hungry politicians try to capitalize on public outrage and ginned up fury.Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and his fellow Democrats held a show trial today in Hartford demanding answers from AIG on their bonuses, using the company's location (Wilton, Connecticut) as justification for this circus. ...

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AIG executive defends bonuses to Conn. lawmakers

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- An executive of American International Group Inc. faced Connecticut lawmakers Thursday and defended $165 million in bonuses, saying they were necessary to keep valuable employees so the financial products division could be wound down....

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AIG executive defends bonuses

HARTFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - An executive at American International Group defended the insurer's controversial $165 million (114 million pounds) in bonuses, saying the recipients did not create the problems that led to a government bailout.

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The dark side of populist anger

The NBC affiliate in Hartford, CT, reports on the specific threats made against AIG employees.I hope, as the comment from Tony58 below the piece on that site states, that this is just a case of "people blow off steam on emails, big whup."I am not a First Amendment lawyer, but it seems to me that a number of the reported comments fall outside the realm of protected speech and constitute the...

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Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Induct Two Leaders & Three Organizations At Upcoming Third Annual Induction Ceremony On Friday, April 3, 2009 In Hartford, CT

Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Induct Two Leaders & Three Organizations At Upcoming Third Annual Induction Ceremony On Friday, April 3, 2009 In Hartford, CT - Members Of The "Class of 2008" Include Stafford Motor Speedway, Connecticut Economic Resource Center, Alcoa Howmet, Gloria McAdam From Foodshare and Jim Barnes From Oakleaf Waste & Recycling -

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    Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Hold 2009 Induction Ceremony

    Connecticut Business Hall Of Fame To Induct Two Leaders & Three Organizations At Upcoming Third Annual Induction Ceremony On Friday, April 3, 2009 In Hartford,...

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Brooke Burke

Burke was born as the first of nine children in Hartford, Connecticut to Donna and George Burke, and was raised in Tucson, Arizona. Her mother is Jewish and she considers herself Jewish;[1][2] she also has Irish, French and Portuguese ancestry. She stu...

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Connecticut Laborers’ District Council Question Stamford, Connecticut Mayor Dannel Malloy’s Real Commitment To Local Jobs & Companies At Stamford’s Harbor Point Development

- Project’s Developers Building and Land Technology & Lubert-Adler Ignore Previous Pleas From State Labor Leaders To Utilize Connecticut Companies & Employees - (Hartford, Connecticut) – Wondering why Connecticut’s largest construction project is proceeding without any commitment to hiring Connecticut companies and employees, the Connecticut Laborers’ District Council today requested that Dannel Malloy,