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It surely wasn’t their intention – and it’s clear they really don’t care what those on the fringe think – but a new bill developed by top state officials that would shield parts of the Sandy Hook investigation is proving to be a big hit with conspiracy theorists.
“The conspiracy nuts are going [...]
For many, the horrible massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School five months ago was a crime like no other in the state’s history.
So is that a reason to treat its investigation with a level of secrecy like no other?
Connecticut’s top prosecutor thinks so, as do some gubernatorial and legislative leaders, as well as [...]
A noose was found Monday morning at Brodie Park in New Hartford. But you wouldn’t know that from the initial police summary of the incident.
In Feb. 2012, I singled out a “stunningly clever” series of stories in the South Florida Sun Sentinel that exposed dangerously reckless driving by hundreds of off-duty police officers across the state. I named it an investigative-reporting “best of the week.” Today, the Pulitzer Board declared it the best of the year.
The Sun [...]
The release this week of search warrants related to the Sandy Hook school shooting opened the window a little wider on the tragedy and on life inside 36 Yogananda Street, where Adam Lanza prepared for his deadly rampage. But confusion remains over certain elements contained in the warrants. Here are [...]
The Courant’s Jenny Wilson has put together a fascinating nationwide map showing the status of gun legislation in every state. Half a dozen locations, marked below in yellow, are considering multiple initiatives, some of which favor gun rights and some which favor gun control. But the other 44 states and the District of [...]
In East Lyme, a resident of a group home for the developmentally disabled was sexually assaulted by a worker for more than a year by before the assaults came to light, according to police.
In East Hartford, a mentally frail woman was kicked, whipped with a belt and dragged across the floor by her hair.
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Quick quiz: Which of the above firearms would be covered by Gov. Dannel Malloy’s proposed assault-weapon ban?
Easy question, right?
But here’s a tougher one: Which is a .223 caliber semi-automatic capable of taking a 30-round magazine?
Following the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, many called for a renewed discussion of gun violence in America, predicting that the tragedy would bring the nation closer to agreement on solutions to keep deadly weapons out of the wrong hands.
But the Courant, in collaboration with the PBS show “Frontline,” found that [...]
We may spend years trying to understand the troubled mind of Adam Lanza. But just two months after his deadly attack on the Sandy Hook Elementary School, my colleagues Alaine Griffin and Josh Kovner have produced an unmatched examination of Lanza’s life and his relationship to his protective mother, Nancy Lanza, whom he also [...]
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