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FILE - The U.S. Coast Guard Academy is seen in early evening, July 15, 2024 in New London, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
More former cadets accuse US Coast Guard Academy of failing to prevent campus sexual assaults
Nine additional former cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy have formally accused overseers of the prestigious service academy of failing to prevent and properly address sexual violence on campus, while also covering it up.
 
Whether to publicly say Trump’s name becomes issue in Connecticut congressional debate
U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes is criticizing her Republican opponent in Connecticut’s hotly contested 5th Congressional District for not saying former President Donald Trump’s name.
 
This photo provided by Connecticut Judicial Branch shows Connecticut State Supreme Court Justice Raheem L. Mullins, who has been nominated to the position of Chief Justice by Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont, announced Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. ( John Marinelli via AP)
Lamont nominates Justice Raheem L. Mullins to become next chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has nominated state Supreme Court Justice Raheem L. Mullins to become the next chief justice.
 
FILE - Professional wrestler Ronda Rousey speaks at a press conference in East Rutherford, N.J., Friday, March 16, 2018.(Marko Georgiev/The Record via AP, File)
Former MMA fighter Ronda Rousey apologizes for posting Sandy Hook conspiracy online 11 years ago
Former MMA fighter and professional wrestler Ronda Rousey has issued an online apology for reposting a conspiracy video about the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting on social media.
 
FILE - A woman walks by a Yale sign reflected in the rainwater on the Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
Expelled Yale student sues women’s groups for calling him a rapist despite his acquittal in court
An expelled Yale University student who was acquitted of sex assault charges in 2018 is suing 15 women’s advocacy groups and an attorney for defamation after they called him a “rapist” in a court brief filed in a separate proceeding.
 
FILE - Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves the Capitol after being expelled from the House of Representatives, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Ex-Rep. George Santos expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in fraud case, AP source says
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos is expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in his federal fraud case, according to a person familiar with the matter.
 
This photo provided by the National Park Service on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, in Rodanthe, N.C., along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore shows debris from an unoccupied beach house that collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean from winds and waves caused by Hurricane Ernesto. (Cape Hatteras National Seashore via AP)
Hundreds of miles away, Hurricane Ernesto still affects US beaches with rip currents, house collapse
Hurricane Ernesto was being felt this weekend along much of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, even with the storm hundreds of miles offshore and crossing Bermuda.
 
Signs for Matt Corey, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, stand posted outside the Sayles School in Sprague, Conn., Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, for a statewide primary. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)
Connecticut Republicans tap restaurant owner Matt Corey to challenge Sen. Chris Murphy in a rematch
Matt Corey, a Connecticut entrepreneur who unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House and Senate in the past, has won the Republican nomination to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy again.
 
Swabs march under the eye of second class cadets known as cadre at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Monday, July 15, 2024, in New London, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
US Coast Guard Academy works to change its culture following sexual abuse and harassment scandal
The grueling basic training for fledgling cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, known as swab summer, is being revamped this year in light of a sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the prestigious Connecticut service academy.
 
FILE - Martin S. Indyk speaks at the State Department, July 29, 2013, in Washington. Veteran diplomat Indyk, an author and leader at prominent U.S. think tanks who devoted years to finding a path toward peace in the Middle East, died Thursday, July 25, 2024. He was 73. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Martin Indyk, former US diplomat and author who devoted career to Middle East peace, dies at 73
Veteran diplomat Martin S. Indyk, an author and leader at U.S. prominent think tanks who devoted years to finding a path toward peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 73.
 
Patrick Bertoletti stuffs hot dogs into his mouth during the men's division in Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, Thursday, July 4, 2024, at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Bertoletti ate 58 hot dogs. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
Bertoletti, Sudo win top dog honors at Nathan’s Famous power-eating contest, absent longtime champ
Patrick Bertoletti of Chicago has won his first men’s title at the annual Nathan’s hot dog eating contest. Bertoletti won Thursday by consuming 58 hot dogs in a tight, 10-minute race where the leader bounced back and forth.
 
Steve Bannon arrives to speak outside Danbury Federal Correctional Institution, Monday, July 1, 2024, in Danbury, Conn. Bannon was taken into custody after surrendering at the federal prison to begin a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
Trump ally Steve Bannon surrenders to federal prison to serve 4-month sentence on contempt charges.
Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon has been taken into custody after surrendering at a federal prison to begin a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack.
 
In this undated photo, Richie Hull, a lead instructor at the Connecticut-based group CfAL for Digital Inclusion, teaches participates at the Ives Maine Library in New Haven, Conn. how to take a computer apart and put it back together again. Connecticut is working on a new online academy to teach citizens about how to use generative artificial intelligence, but groups like CfAL say basic computer skills are also needed. (Rose Servetnick/CfAL for Digital Inclusion via AP)
As AI gains a workplace foothold, states are trying to make sure workers don’t get left behind
States are trying to help workers beef up their tech skills before they become outdated and get outfoxed by machines that are becoming increasingly smarter.
 
FILE - Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont speaks at the State Capitol, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in Hartford, Conn. Lamont on Thursday, June 27, 2024, was officially ordered by his local inland wetlands agency to replant more than 180 trees and thousands of bushes that were chopped down in November on property behind the Democrat's Greenwich home. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Connecticut governor to replant more than 180 trees, thousands of bushes cut down behind his house
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has been officially ordered by his local inland wetlands agency to replant the more than 180 trees and thousands of bushes that were chopped down in November on property behind the Democrat’s Greenwich home.
 
FILE - Police investigate the scene where two police officers were killed the night before in Bristol, Conn., Oct. 13, 2022. The ambush killings of two Connecticut police officers was likely fueled by an angry interaction the gunman had with police earlier, along with building pressures in his personal life and his abuse of alcohol and drugs, according to a report released Wednesday, June 26, 2024 by the state’s Inspector General.(AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Man who killed 2 Connecticut officers likely fueled by a prior interaction with police, report says
A new report by Connecticut’s Inspector General says the ambush killings of two Connecticut police officers was likely fueled by an angry interaction the gunman had with police earlier, along with building pressures in his personal life and his abuse of alcohol and drugs.
 
FILE - Anne Hendricks Bass is photographed attending the 2009 Whitney Museum of American Art gala and studio party, Oct. 19, 2009, in New York. The last of three masked men who claimed to have injected the wealthy Connecticut arts patron and her companion with a deadly virus pleaded guilty Tuesday, June 18, 2024, in connection to the 2007 home invasion. It was part of a failed attempt to extort $8.5 million in exchange for a supposed antidote from millionaire philanthropist Bass and abstract artist Julian Lethbridge. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
Masked intruder pleads guilty to 2007 attack on Connecticut arts patron and fake virus threat
The last of three masked men who claimed to have injected a wealthy Connecticut arts patron and her companion with a deadly virus has pleaded guilty in connection to the 2007 home invasion.
 
FILE - The U.S. Coast Guard Academy is shown in a photo from Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006, in New London, Conn. The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard tried Tuesday, June 11, 2024, to assure skeptical and frustrated U.S. senators she's not attempting to cover up the branch's failure to adequately handle cases of sexual assault and harassment at the service academy in Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jack Sauer, File)
US Coast Guard boss says she is not trying to hide the branch’s failure to handle sex assault cases
The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has tried to assure frustrated senators she is not attempting to cover up the branch’s failure to adequately handle cases of sexual assault and harassment at the service academy in Connecticut.
 
FILE - Bridgeport city employee Wanda Geter-Pataky, center, works with her lawyer, John R. Gulash, right, to know which questions to answer so as not to incriminate herself during her testimony in Bridgeport Democratic Primary Mayoral candidate John Gomes' challenge of absentee ballots in Superior Court in Bridgeport, Conn., Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. Four campaign workers have been charged with mishandling absentee ballots during the 2019 Democratic mayoral primary in Connecticut’s largest city, including Geter-Pataky who is at the center of a similar controversy that occurred during the recent mayoral primary. (Brian A. Pounds/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)
Four Connecticut campaign workers charged with mishandling absentee ballots in 2019 mayoral primary
Four campaign workers have been charged with mishandling absentee ballots during the 2019 Democratic mayoral primary in Connecticut’s largest city.
 
FILE - Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter is shown during the first half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Chicago Bulls, Jan. 18, 2024, in Toronto. Two more people, Timothy McCormack and Mahmud Mollah, have been charged in the sports betting scandal that prompted the NBA to ban former Toronto Raptors player Porter for life. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
Lawyer for Jontay Porter says now-banned NBA player was ‘in over his head’ with a gambling addiction
A lawyer for Jontay Porter says the former Toronto Raptors forward who was given a lifetime ban by the NBA because of a sports betting scandal was “in over his head” with a gambling addiction.
 
A real nut case: Cold Stone Creamery faces suit over lack of real pistachios in pistachio ice cream
A federal judge in New York has given the go-ahead to a New York woman’s class action lawsuit which claims consumers are being duped by Cold Stone Creamery when they purchase certain flavors that “do not contain their represented ingredients.”
 
Former Connecticut deputy budget director Kosta Diamantis walks out of federal court, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Hartford, Conn. after pleading not guilty to 22 criminal criminal counts, including extortion and bribery in connection with allegedly demanding and receiving payments and benefits from construction contractors. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)
Former Connecticut budget official arrested, pleads not guilty to bribery and extortion charges
A former top official in Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s budget office has pleaded not guilty to extortion, bribery, conspiracy and false statement charges. Konstantinos Diamantis appeared in federal court in Hartford on Thursday.
 
West Virginia University Muslim Student Association President Omar Ibraheem leads a chant during a pro-Palestinian protest at Woodburn Hall in Morgantown, W.Va., Saturday, May 11, 2024. (William Wotring/The Dominion-Post via AP)
Small pro-Palestinian protests held Saturday as college commencements are held
Small pro-Palestinian protests are popping up sporadically as colleges and universities hold commencement services. Among the demonstrations on Saturday were dozens of graduating students at Virginia Commonwealth University who walked out on Gov.
 
House Speaker Matt Ritter watches the vote tally board in the House of Representatives in Hartford, Conn. on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, the final night of the legislative session. Lawmakers were rushing to pass bills before the midnight adjournment. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)
Connecticut lawmakers adjourn session, fail to pass AI regulations but pass absentee ballot reforms
Legislation regulating artificial intelligence is one of several major bills didn’t survive Connecticut’s three-month legislative session.
 
FILE - Police vehicles are stationed outside the Connecticut State Capitol on the opening session of legislature, Feb. 7, 2024, in Hartford, Conn. Facing a Dec. 31 deadline, Connecticut lawmakers were on track Tuesday, May, 7, 2024, to approve a Democratic plan to spend at least $360 million in remaining federal COVID-19 pandemic funds on key areas, including higher education, not-for-profit social service agencies, municipal aid and children's mental health. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Connecticut lawmakers debate spending remaining COVID-19 funds, forgoing changes to state budget
The Connecticut House of Representatives has approved a Democratic plan to spend at least $360 million in remaining federal COVID-19 pandemic funds on key areas, including higher education, not-for-profit social service agencies, municipal aid and children’s mental health.
 
FILE - Manuel Alcantara deposits absentee ballots for his son and daughter in a dropbox outside City Hall in Bridgeport, Conn., Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh, File)
Connecticut lawmakers take first steps to pass bill calling for cameras at absentee ballot boxes
Connecticut lawmakers are taking their first steps toward tightening absentee ballot laws since video last year captured people stuffing reams of ballots into collection boxes in Bridgeport, the state’s most populous city.
 
In this image provided by the Connecticut Governor's Office, emergency personnel work at the scene of a fiery early morning crash that left both sides of Interstate 95, the East Coast’s main north-south highway, shut down in southwestern Connecticut., Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Norwalk, Conn. (Norwalk Fire Department/Connecticut Governor's Office via AP)
I-95 in Connecticut will close for days after fiery crash damages bridge, governor says
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says the major traffic artery linking New England with New York will be closed for days around the area where a tanker fire damaged a bridge over Interstate 95.
 
FILE - Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont looks into a teleprompter as he delivers the State of the State address at the State Capitol, Feb. 7, 2024, in Hartford, Conn.Lamont acknowledged Monday, April 29, 2024, he helped hire a landscaper that illegally chopped down more than 180 trees and thousands of bushes on a property behind his Greenwich home -- capping off days of questions about his level of involvement in the felling. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Connecticut governor takes partial blame for illegal cutting of 186 trees on neighbor’s property
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says he helped hire a landscaper that illegally chopped down more than 180 trees and thousands of bushes on a property behind his Greenwich home.
 
Democratic state Sen. James Maroney of Connecticut explains a far-reaching bill that attempts to regulate artificial intelligence during a debate in the state Senate in Hartford, Conn. on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. The bill marks one of the first major legislative proposals in the country to reign in bias in AI decision-making and protect people from harm. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)
Connecticut Senate passes wide-ranging bill to regulate AI. But its fate remains uncertain
The Connecticut Senate has passed one of the first major legislative proposals in the U.S. to rein in bias in artificial intelligence decision-making and protect people from harm.
 
Connecticut state Rep. Manny Sanchez debates a bill in the House of Representatives chamber that would expand the state's current paid sick leave law, Wednesday, April 24, 2024 in Hartford, Conn. The bill would eventually require all employers to provide time off by 2027. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)
Connecticut House votes to expand state’s paid sick leave requirement for all employers by 2027
Connecticut’s first-in-the-nation paid sick leave law from 2011 is moving closer toward being updaeted.
 
FILE - Light from the setting sun falls on the Hudson Yards neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, as seen from the Weehawken Pier in Weehawken, New Jersey, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. New Jersey is incentivizing taxpayers who work from home for New York based employers to sue New York in court for taxing their wages. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
New Jersey is motivating telecommuters to appeal their New York tax bills. Connecticut may be next
New Jersey is incentivizing taxpayers who work from home for New York based employers to sue New York in court for taxing their wages. Connecticut is now considering it as well. There’s hundreds of millions of dollars on the line for both states.
 
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