- Senate approves ice cream truck safety upgrades
![Frozen dessert vendors would need a variety of new safety equipment to protect patrons from passing motorists, under legislation that unanimously passed the state Senate on Wednesday.]()
- Lawmakers push for violence-prevention funding
![A man lights candles at a vigil for Randell Jones on Monday, April 12, 2021 in Hartford. Police said Randell Jones, 3, was riding in a car with his mother, other relatives and a man when another vehicle pulled along side them and someone opened fire on Saturday. Randell died in the shooting, which appeared to have targeted the man in the car, police said. (Brad Horrigan /Hartford Courant via AP)]()
- The projects CT wants Biden infrastructure plan to fund
![A northbound Metro-North train passes across the railroad bridge spanning Cos Cob Harbor in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Conn. Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. The state Department of Transportation said replacing the bridge is a priority project for federal funding from President Joe Biden's proposed infrastructure bill.]()
- CT reaches COVID vaccine milestone
![Carly Plymel, RN, preps a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Stamford Health Vaccination Super Site in Stamford, Conn. Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Beginning April 1st , all individuals 16 and older who live, work, or attend school in Connecticut became eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.]()
- ‘Get on it Joe!’: Strengthening gun coalition pushed Biden to act
![U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 8, 2021. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)]()
- CT spends nearly $300M in federal aid on COVID testing
![Janelle Berry performs a COVID-19 test at Broadview Middle School on Monday. The City of Danbury and the Community Health Center, Inc, sponsored free testing in the school's parking lot. Danbury, Conn, Monday, August 24, 2020.]()
National Politics
![FILE - In this March 24, 2018, file photo, Isabel White of Parkland, Fla., holds a sign that reads "Americans for Gun Safety Now!" during the "March for Our Lives" rally in support of gun control in Washington, that was spearheaded by teens from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. President Biden faces an uphill battle as he tries to push for more state laws that would allow authorities to temporarily disarm people who are considered a danger to themselves or others. State lawmakers, governors of both parties and former President Donald Trump embraced the so-called red flag laws after the 2018 mass shooting in Florida.]()
Biden faces long odds in push for more state 'red flag' lawsIOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — President Joe Biden faces an uphill battle as he tries to revive a push for more state laws that would allow authorities to temporarily disarm people who are considered...By RYAN J. FOLEY![President Joe Biden participates virtually in the CEO Summit on Semiconductor and Supply Chain Resilience in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, April 12, 2021, in Washington.]()
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![Gov. Ned Lamont, shown here in a 2020 file photo, announced Friday that after a record number of visitors to state parks and forests last year, capacity limits will rise, picnic tables will be allowed and freshwater swimming will resume in places such as Indian Well State Park in Shelton and Squantz Pond in New Fairfield.]()
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![Legislation that would have made it easier for plaintiffs to sue hospitals and nursing homes for failing to follow COVID protocols died Friday in the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee. This is a 2020 file photo from Stamford Hospital.]()
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![Sue Hatfield is the new chair of the Connecticut Republican Party.]()
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![Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at Hartford Hospital in Hartford.]()
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![President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden at the White House, Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Washington.]()
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![Chris DiPentima speaks at the 2019 annual meeting of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, with CBIA naming DiPentima CEO with the August 2020 retirement of Joe Brennan. (Photo courtesy CBIA]()
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![A view of Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford on Jan. 3, 2020.]()
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![The Connecticut State Capitol building in Hartford.]()
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![Gov. Ned Lamont speaks at a news conference at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo, in Bridgeport, Conn. March 29, 2021. Lamont joined others to announce the deployment of FEMA's new COVID-19 mobile vaccination unit, which is set up and running this week in the zoo's parking lot.]()
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![The historic 1878 State Capitol building, with its dozens of statues and displays of historic artifacts, will soon become more-inclusive, when a bronze plaque honoring 29 Black women suffragists of the early 20th century is cast and installed in what advocates hope to be a public celebration.]()
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![Voters line up to cast their ballots on Election Day at Shelton Intermediate School, in Shelton, Conn. Nov. 3, 2020.]()
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![A real estate sign is seen in front of a house for sale in West Los Angeles on November 19, 2020. (Chris Delmas/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)]()
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![The Connecticut State Capitol building in Hartford, Conn. Monday, June 3, 2013.]()
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![U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal speaks to the Retired Men's Association of Greenwich over Zoom on Wednesday.]()
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![Then-Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden spoke to supporters before boarding his train at Amtrak's Cleveland Lakefront train station, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Cleveland, Biden was on a train tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)]()
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![President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Pittsburgh.]()
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![State Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, D-Westport, co-chairman of the Public Health Committee]()
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