Local Lawmakers Warn Of Budget Cuts If Deal Not Reached In Washington By Friday
The $85 billion budget-cutting mechanism could affect everything from commercial flights to classrooms to meat inspections.
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The $85 billion budget-cutting mechanism could affect everything from commercial flights to classrooms to meat inspections.
In the letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Rep. Elizabeth Etsy blasted Facebook for allowing pages that violated its own rules.
The bill under discussion Monday in the General Assembly's Transportation Committee would place tolls at Connecticut's borders and proponents see tolls as the only way to raise money for badly needed road and bridge repairs.
The nephew, also named John Mara, was arrested by Fairfield police Friday and posted $150,000 bail.
"Now, I think, America may wake up to the priorities of taking care of our kids and making sure that they're nurtured and feel safe," Yarrow told WCBS 880 reporter Sean Adams.
Mitch Gross, a spokesman for the utility, said it's reviewing the four locations to determine if reliability would be improved. He says burying cables would require much more than digging a trench.
Middletown police say investigators suspect no foul play at this time. A kayaker called emergency workers to report that she saw a body in the river Saturday morning.
The Connecticut Audubon Society has issued its annual report on the state of birds in the Northeast – specifically Connecticut.
After 20 children were children were killed in Newtown, the town clerk was inundated by reporters seeking the death certificates of the young victims. The families of the children were outraged.
Vice President Joe Biden was among the officials in Danbury on Thursday looking into ways to reduce gun violence in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Thursday called for immediately banning high-capacity ammunition magazines, requiring background checks for the transfer of any firearm and expanding the state's assault weapons ban.
The Safer Communities initiative will formally kick off on Feb. 27 at a school safety symposium at SUNY Purchase to bring the two sides together.
But the panel said the state should not mandate specific staff-to-student ratios of social workers, school psychologists or other mental health professionals.
Drivers in the Danbury area may soon find themselves snared for texting behind the wheel and they may be left scratching their heads as to how the violations were discovered.
Bridgeport officials held a hearing Tuesday night to discuss their response to the blizzard earlier this month.
