Dodd Unveils Public Health Care Option (Washington, DC) -- Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has unveiled a government run public health care option, at a cost much lower than original estimates. Dodd, who worked with Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy on the proposal, says original estimates pegged such a program at one-trillion-dollars over the next ten years ...Read More
State Retirement Program Far Exceeds Expectations (Hartford, CT) -- The early retirement program put in place to help cut the state budget deficit has far exceeded expectations. The program was expected to lead to around three-thousand retirements, which would have saved the state around 700-million-dollars in the upcoming two year budget cycle ...Read More
Rell Signs Dairy Industry Aid Bill (Hartford, CT) -- Governor Jodi Rell has signed legislation that seeks to help Connecticut dairy farmers stay in business in increasingly difficult times. The bill calls for a 40-dollar fee being placed on the filing of land records with the state, with the money being distributed to dairy farmers based on how much milk they produce ...Read More
Six-Year-Old Burned By Sparkler (Hartford, CT) -- It's the type of firework that's legal, but police say not in the hands of a six-year-old. That's the age of a boy that suffered second and third-degree burns after a sparkler ignited his clothing ...Read More
UCONN Student Drowns (Guilford, CT) -- A University if Connecticut student drowned in Guilford pond. Police say it happened Sunday as the victim, 19-year-old Garland Brown, was swimming with friends at a pond at the end of Susanne Circle ...Read More
