Associated Press reporter in Connecticut. @UConn alum. Contact me at [email protected]
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Connecticut city's 'mishandled ballots' fuel election skeptics. Experts call problem local, limited
@SusanHaighAP’s continues to provide much needed context to this election controversy. apnews.com/article/mishandle…
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This is the door mat outside the Plainville apartment of the @BristolCTPolice lobby shooter, Suzanne Laprise. 👇 @FOX61News Laprise is set to be arraigned at 2PM. She is being held on $3-million bond.
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Children who survived the Sandy Hook shooting a decade ago continue to struggle with trauma and anxiety. They’re angry the carnage has not stopped.
“We've had 10 years to change things and we’ve changed so little, and that’s just disgusting to me.” apnews.com/article/shootings…
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The tragedy that occurred on this date 10 years ago is one of the worst in our state's history. Our hearts will forever be with the 20 innocent children we lost all too soon and the 6 devoted educators who lost their lives protecting the students they heroically guarded.
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BREAKING: Infowars host Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy protection in Texas as he faces nearly $1.5 billion in court judgments over conspiracy theories he spread about the Sandy Hook school massacre. apnews.com/article/business-…
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Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorneys general announced, calling it the largest multistate privacy settlement in U.S history. apnews.com/article/technolog…
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BREAKING: Democrat Richard Blumenthal wins reelection to U.S. Senate from Connecticut. #APracecall at 8:00 p.m. EST. apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-…
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An @AP analysis found many states barely use “red flag” laws that allow police to take guns away from people threatening to kill, a trend blamed on lack of awareness of the laws and a reluctance by some police to enforce them even as gun deaths soar. apnews.com/article/buffalo-s…
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William Shatner stopped by Vernon’s famed @ReinsDeli to enjoy a Reuben today. (They are amazing!)
Here he poses for a photo with Rein’s Managing Partner Russell DeBella.
Welcome to Vernon!
#VernonCT @WilliamShatner – at Vernon, CT
Dave Collins retweeted
They have held dying family members. They panic if a balloon pops. They push their wounded bodies to heal. Behind the statistics on rising gun violence In the U.S. are survivors and loved ones whose lives have been forever changed. apne.ws/Fwi5Mja
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Ordinarily I do a “best of 2020” thread, but this year I’m going to skip. The best thing of 2020 is that we made it this far. That’s enough. And for those who didn’t, you won’t be forgotten. Here’s to 2021 bringing health and peace back to all our lives. 🗓 – at Portland, ME
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Nursing home watchdogs are receiving reports of residents allowed to wither in starvation or thirst, left in soiled diapers or with bedsores. Some cut off from family have given up on living, victims of what death certificates call “failure to thrive.” apne.ws/DAC6Jud
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“Please pay attention to our lives.” Women on palm oil plantations describe rapes, harassment and punishing physical effects of their brutal work, which feeds into top Western beauty brands. Read @AP investigation here. apne.ws/c2oqyfL
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A rise in COVID-19 in NJ & CT has landed both states on NY’s quarantine list, but Gov. Cuomo says NY won’t enforce rules against those residents. Being on the list - which NJ/NY/CT announced jointly this summer - requires quarantine for 14 days @AP apnews.com/e8e698aa9dd1d9a16…
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BREAKING: Rock star and guitar legend Eddie Van Halen has died of cancer, a person close to the family says. apne.ws/ZncuA9R
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Federal officers deployed tear gas and fired less-lethal rounds into a crowd of protesters in Oregon, hours after the the head of the Department of Homeland Security visited Portland and called the demonstrators “violent anarchists.” apne.ws/MIrVnto
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BREAKING: A federal appeals court has ordered the dismissal of the criminal case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. apne.ws/7RN48D0
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Desperate for information as coronavirus deaths mounted at the Massachusetts veterans home where her father lived, Susan Kenney drove there with her question written in big letters on her car window: “Is my dad alive?”
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BREAKING: Authorities have recovered a stolen mortuary vehicle that had a body inside it Thursday morning following an @LAPDHQ pursuit on a major Los Angeles freeway, @LASDHQ said.
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BREAKING: Disc jockey Don Imus, whose career was made and then undone by his acid tongue, has died at age 79, his family says. apne.ws/f0Yr2Xp