Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—Making local phone calls in Connecticut will soon take more work.The state Department of Public Utility Control says that starting next Saturday the area code must be included for all numbers dialed, even if they are local calls.The price of local calls won't increase, though.The change is being made because two new area codes, 475 and 959, eventually will be added as Connecticut...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- An effort to honor a Sept. 11 victim in Connecticut has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from the victim's father insisting that his son's memorial say he was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
HARTFORD, Conn.—An estimated 45,000 onlookers are estimated to have turned out for the annual Veterans Day Parade through the streets of downtown Hartford.Besides the spectators, organizers say there were more than 4,000 marchers in the annual event, which is billed as the largest Veterans Day parade in New England.The grand marshal was Retired Army Capt. Paul W. "Buddy" Bucha, a Vietnam veteran...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
HARTFORD, Conn.—A group of Hartford activists is going door-to-door, trying to persuade residents in the North End to refuse services from Connecticut's Department of Children and Families.The organization, known as Men of Color, is attempting to create a "No-DCF Zone," hoping to draw attention to what they say is a lack of minority input into a state agency whose clientele are more often black...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
An estimated 40,000 onlookers are estimated to have turned out for the annual Veterans Day Parade through the streets of downtown Hartford.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Town officials in Kent say it would be inappropriate to single out a religious group on a project on town property that's paid for with taxpayers' money. The memorial that was to be erected outside the town hall is on indefinite hold.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
An effort to honor a Sept. 11 victim in Connecticut has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from the victim's father insisting that his son's memorial say he was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
HARTFORD, Conn. -- An effort to honor a Sept. 11 victim in Connecticut has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from the victim's father insisting that his son's memorial say he was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
HARTFORD, Conn.—Connecticut will use federal stimulus money to help some domestic violence shelters across the state stay open around-the-clock and preserve five state prosecutor positions.Gov. M. Jodi Rell says the state has notified the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence that $1 million of the federal money will be used to expand hours at CCADV member shelters across the state.The...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
HARTFORD, Conn.—Taking advantage of a short reprieve from a rainstorm, Rev. Cornell Lewis and one of his followers don bright yellow jackets and trek to one of the poorest sections of Connecticut's capital city to slide white sheets of paper into doors and mailboxes.The Saturday morning ritual has been going on for the past month in Hartford's North End, where Lewis' group "The Men of Color,"...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
STAMFORD, Conn.—Two accused drug dealers have each been ordered held on $10 million bond after police seized nearly $1 million in cash and 37 kilos of cocaine at a suspected stash house in Stamford.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
An effort to honor a Sept. 11 victim in Connecticut has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from the victim's father insisting that his son's memorial say he was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
HARTFORD, Conn.—Connecticut officials say 3,000 bottles of anti-flu medicine for children are being distributed this week to hospitals and clinics.Connecticut received the pediatric Tamiflu recently from the federal government, which released 234,000 treatment courses of the medicine nationwide from its national stockpile.Tamiflu is given in the early stages of the flu to decrease its severity...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
HARTFORD, Conn.—An effort to honor a Sept. 11 victim in Connecticut has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from the victim's father insisting that his son's memorial say he was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."Town officials in Kent say it would be inappropriate to single out a religious group on a project on town property that's paid for with taxpayers' money. The memorial that was...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Spat over 'terrorists' halts Conn. 9/11 memorialBy DAVE COLLINSAssociated Press WriterHARTFORD, Conn. -- A memorial to honor a Sept. 11 victim from a small northwestern Connecticut town has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from his father's insistence it say his son was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."Town officials in Kent are balking, saying it would be inappropriate to...
