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Recent death of child impels DCF chief to propose new guidelines for hospitals

Hartford Hospital Emergency room doctor Alise Frallicciardi Monday gently rolled over the lifelike baby mannequin in the hospital bed and discovered several long bleeding cuts on his back. She asked Stephen P. Donahue, a hospital trainer playing the part of the baby’s well-dressed but evasive father, what happened. “I never saw that. I don’t know […]

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Connecticut’s prison population year-to-date for 2012

Connecticut’s prison population year-to-date for 2012 {“dataSourceUrl”:”//docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0Ajo4oXjWuKj8dGFQRW9XdFJDVVdCb0d2WDlHbGpULWc&transpose=0&headers=1&range=A1%3AC7&gid=0&pub=1″,”options”:{“vAxes”:[{“titleTextStyle”:{“color”:”#222″,”italic”:true,”fontSize”:”14″},”title”:”Population”,”useFormatFromData”:true,”viewWindowMode”:”pretty”,”viewWindow”:{}},{“useFormatFromData”:true,”viewWindowMode”:”pretty”,”viewWindow”:{}}],”series”:{“1”:{“color”:”#cc0000″,”pointSize”:2,”lineWidth”:1},”0″:{“color”:”#073763″,”pointSize”:2,”lineWidth”:1}},”booleanRole”:”certainty”,”curveType”:””,”height”:371,”animation”:{“duration”:500},”backgroundColor”:”#f3f3f3″,”width”:640,”focusTarget”:”category”,”lineWidth”:2,”hAxis”:{“titleTextStyle”:{“color”:”#222″,”italic”:true,”fontSize”:”14″},”title”:”Month (2012)”,”useFormatFromData”:true,”slantedText”:false,”viewWindowMode”:”pretty”,”textStyle”:{“color”:”#222″,”italic”:false,”fontSize”:”14″},”viewWindow”:{}}},”state”:{},”chartType”:”LineChart”,”chartName”:”Chart 1″} *Actual Population based on the average population for the first seven days of the month. Source: Connecticut’s Office of Policy and Management

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Malloy gets warm welcome at NAACP convention over abolition of death penalty

With organ music underscoring his rhetorical points, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy addressed the faithful today at the NAACP national convention in Houston, where he was honored for signing into law a bill repealing the death penalty for future crimes. Malloy scored points at the expense of Gov. Rick Perry, who sent video greetings instead of […]

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McMahon, Shays respond differently to Obama tax plan

Linda McMahon and Chris Shays, the two Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, responded to President Obama’s proposed middle-class tax cut today with statements that were similar in substance, but sharply different in tone. In a statement apparently aimed at a general-election audience, McMahon emphasized her agreement with Obama on the need for a middle-class tax […]