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A Connecticut teacher has been arrested and charged for allegedly pulling a 12-year-old female student’s hair in the classroom

An organization called Homes for the Brave held a cornhole tournament Saturday and participants raised approximately $4,500 to go toward homeless veterans.

Connecticut’s Department of Health is now asking nursing homes — homes to some of the most vulnerable — to accept coronavirus-positive patients.

The top five states with the highest amount of outbound migration in 2021 were governed by Democrat politicians, according to United Van Lines’s annual movers study.

A Boston terrier is being hailed as a hero for alerting his owners that their infant daughter was struggling to breathe. 

A CNN staffer has been accused and charged with luring a mom and her young daughter to his home in order to “train” her to be sexually submissive, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.

Young children in kindergarten are being taught about transgender ideology without an opt-out, say concerned parents in West Hartford, Connecticut.

An 11-year-old Connecticut boy held a fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association on October 23-24 in memory of his late great-grandmother. 

A former physical education teacher of the year may lose his job due to his decision to not be vaccinated against the coronavirus or be tested, according to News Nation Now.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont referred to his state workers seeking a religious exemption from the coronavirus vaccine mandate as “Mother Teresas.”

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) has notified his National Guard troops to prepare for a possible scenario in which they replace state workers who defy the state’s impending coronavirus vaccine and testing mandate. 

Connecticut’s vaccine mandate requiring state employees to be vaccinated for the Chinese coronavirus goes into effect Monday, and hundreds of bus drivers are expected to not show up to work in protest.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) issued a call Wednesday to the state’s General Assembly to convene in a special session to approve an extension of his emergency pandemic powers through February 15.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and the head of Connecticut’s school superintendents are calling on the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to action against the “bathroom challenge” trend on the platform in which students post videos of themselves smashing up bathrooms and stealing school property.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) this week celebrated the White House’s request to accept hundreds of Afghan refugees following the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, proclaiming it to be “our obligation and our duty to ensure these Afghan refugees feel welcome” in his state.

A Connecticut school district instructed its teachers to focus on race while performing various daily tasks, such as waking up in the morning, drinking coffee, brushing their teeth, and eating breakfast. The purpose of the exercise is to “enhance” teachers’ journeys to “becoming more racially considerate.”

President Joe Biden’s administration has started its fast-tracking of Afghans into the United States as reports indicate arrivals have begun in Virginia, Missouri, South Carolina, and Connecticut.

The chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party condemned Democrat Sens. Blumenthal and Murphy for failing to condemn President Biden’s Afghanistan failure.

Family Institute of Connecticut is joining in celebrating Republican Ryan Fazio’s victory in flipping his district’s state Senate seat.

In what could be an indicator of things to come in the 2022 mid-term election, the GOP flipped a state senate seat in a Connecticut special election on Tuesday night. 

The board of education in Stonington, Connecticut, voted Thursday to reverse its decision to rename Columbus Day as “Indigenous Peoples Day,” after substantial criticism related to the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the district.

The first meeting of Connecticut’s Social Equity Council took place Thursday and the group will help decide who may take part in its cannabis industry.

Connecticut’s public sector unions say any potential state mandates for coronavirus vaccinations must be negotiated at the bargaining table.

Critical Race Theory opponents in Guilford, CT won out after Republicans voted to place 5 of their candidates on the board of education ballot.

A state trooper, police sergeant, and a couple are being praised for saving a woman who found herself stranded in her truck during a flood in Columbia, Connecticut.

Parents objecting to their children being taught that America is a racist country are “beginning to sound a lot like the KKK,” the editors at the Hartford Courant wrote Thursday.

CT Sen. Rob Sampson (R) said he views the move by Democrats to push Critical Race Theory into the nation’s schools “Trojan reparations.”

A 54-year-old Connecticut woman named Lisa Marshall knows without a doubt that her beloved husband is her soulmate.

Gov. Ned Lamont (D-CT) signed a bill that legalizes possession of marijuana in the state and anticipates retail sales of the drug in 2022.

A Connecticut Democrat introduced a sudden budget provision Tuesday that would block funding to public schools in the state that continue to use Native American sports team mascots and nicknames unless a tribe in the region gives written consent.

U.S. Ed Sec. Miguel Cardona is backing biological men who say they are “transgender women” to compete in sports against biological women.

Connecticut will back out of the regional Transportation Climate Initiative after a pervasive outcry by taxpayers opposed to a new tax.

Drunkenness has been reported among some Connecticut Democrats as lawmakers have been voting remotely during the pandemic.

Democrats in the Connecticut Senate voted to approve a bill that would give public-sector unions easier access to new or existing employees and their personal information.

Connecticut Republicans in the state House were successful Tuesday in blocking a 2022 referendum on a constitutional amendment that would permit no-excuse absentee voting in the state.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) will not say when he will lift the state’s mask mandate, suggesting Thursday that it may remain in place until “we have real herd immunity.”