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CT News Junkie | Aug 9, 2013 3:24 pm
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A lawyer for Robert Braddock, Jr. asked a federal judge this week not to impose a prison sentence on his recently-convicted client, citing recorded evidence not presented to the jury during his May trial.
A jury found Braddock, the former finance director for state House Speaker Chris Donovan, guilty in May of three counts of conspiring to hide the source of $27,500 in campaign donations.
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‘Crooked Statehouse Staffer Asks For No Jail Time’
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Melissa Bailey | Apr 29, 2013 5:12 pm
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Jose Sanchez and other undocumented immigrants showed up at the Capitol Monday to pose a late-session question for legislators: While the state awaits federal action on immigration reform, what to do now about all the immigrants driving without licenses?
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‘Mayors, Immigrants Rally For Driver’s Licenses’
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CT News Junkie | Apr 23, 2013 11:38 am
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The Consumer Protection Department took hours of public testimony Monday on its draft efforts to regulate marijuana in a manner that is comparable to its oversight of traditional pharmaceuticals in Connecticut, CT News Junkie reported.
The medicinal marijuana law that the state adopted last year is designed to allow people with certain debilitating illnesses to access cannabis with a doctor’s recommendation to be distributed through a licensed pharmacist.
Within the first hour of public testimony, it was evident that people on both sides of the issue consider marijuana to be in some ways distinctive from other types of medication.
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‘Public Weighs In On Medical Marijuana Regs’
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Press Release | Apr 22, 2013 11:03 am
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Tufts Medical Center is honored to establish the Project Purple Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, created through the generosity of Project Purple in recognition of Dr. Wasif Saif on behalf of Pancreatic Cancer Research at Tufts Cancer Center.
The Fund is established by Project Purple, a Beacon Falls-based charity dedicated to combating pancreatic cancer, with a charitable gift commitment of $35,000.
The Fund’s mission shall be used only for pancreatic cancer research and education purpose within the purposes of the Cancer Center.
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‘Project Purple Sets Up Research Fund’
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CT News Junkie | Apr 17, 2013 11:32 am
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State lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that would give people the right to sue police officers who interfere with their ability to record video or photographs of cops on the job, CT News Junkie reported.
The Judiciary Committee forwarded the bill to the state Senate Friday. State Sen. Martin Looney, D‑New Haven, introduced the bill and told CT News Junkie he hopes the state’s House of Representatives, where the bill died the past two years, will pass it in 2013.
Looney believes there’s a greater degree of comfort with the bill this year given all of the publicity surrounding the issue — like the case of Jennifer Gondola, an Ansonia woman arrested in New Haven last summer after refusing to turn over her cell phone while recording an arrest.
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‘Bill To Protect Citizens Who Record Police Moves Forward’
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Staff | Apr 10, 2013 4:32 pm
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A pit bull was shot in the face last at a New Haven park last Saturday (April 6) and survived after the bullet missed its brain by a centimeter.
Now police are asking anyone with information about the suspected shooter to contact them at 203 – 946-6316.
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‘Pit Bull Survives New Haven Shooting’
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CT News Junkie | Apr 10, 2013 1:58 pm
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Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen says Connecticut Light and Power hindered regulators from reviewing its response to a fall 2011 storm that left more than 800,000 customers in the dark.
Now he wants the company to be kept from recovering the $175 million it spent on the storm with a rate hike, CT News Junkie reported Tuesday.
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‘Attorney General Wants CL&P Punished’
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CT News Junkie | Apr 4, 2013 7:15 pm
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With the ink barely dry on Connecticut’s new gun law, several gun rights groups have announced plans explore legal challenges to the new restrictions, CT News Junkie reported Thursday.
Flanked by families of some of those murdered at a Newtown elementary school in December, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed into law the state’s bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation at ceremony Thursday afternoon in the state Capitol.
The bill, which the General Assembly passed early that morning after more than 13 hours of debate, expands the number of firearms prohibited in Connecticut, bans the sale of ammunition magazines that carry more than 10 rounds, and imposes new eligibility requirements for the purchases of all guns and ammunition. It also creates the first statewide gun offender registry.
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‘Challenges Mulled As Gun Bill Becomes Law’
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CT News Junkie | Apr 4, 2013 3:43 am
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The legislature sent its bipartisan response to the Sandy Hook tragedy to the governor’s desk Thursday morning, enacting strict gun-control legislation and closing the book on months of emotional debate , CT News Junkie reported Thursday.
The bill passed the Senate after more than six hours of debate with a 26 – 10 vote. It passed the House on a 105 – 44 vote after seven hours of debate.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he would sign the legislation, which supporters say addresses the issues of gun violence, mental health, and school security even if it wouldn’t necessarily have prevented the second-worst shooting in the nation’s history.
The legislation expands the state’s assault weapon ban to include 100 more new firearms, creates a new a long gun eligibility certificate, broadens the mental health provisions that disqualify a person for a gun permit or handgun eligibility certificate, and requires gun owners to register their high-capacity magazines while immediately halting any future sales of them in the state.
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‘State Legislature Passes New Gun Laws’
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CT News Junkie | Apr 2, 2013 8:57 am
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After weeks of negotiations in the wake of last December’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, state lawmakers have agreed to a framework for a series of new gun control measures, CT News Junkie reported Monday (April 1).
Under the proposal, nobody will lose their right to own a gun, according House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero, a Norwalk Republican.
But they will have to register their firearms and get a background check if they want to purchase ammunition. The proposed bill also adds about 100 more weapons to Connecticut’s assault weapons ban, which currently includes 66 models.
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‘State Lawmakers Agree To Gun Reforms’
