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In Connecticut, Obama makes emotional appeal for gun legislation

2013-04-08 15:34:00

HARTFORD, Conn. – President Obama drew the families of the Newtown school shooting victims into an emotional call to pass gun control measures on Monday, urging that the displays of solidarity and grief in the aftermath not be the end of the...

President Obama to meet with families of Sandy Hook victims

2013-04-08 13:23:00

HARTFORD, Conn. -- President Obama will meet Monday with family members of victims killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School to talk about their efforts to persuade Congress to pass gun control measures in response to the tragedy....

Newtown families help Obama press for gun reform

2013-04-08 21:04:00

HARTFORD, Conn. — President Obama sought Monday to use the emotional pull of the Newtown school massacre to galvanize public support for his drive to pass stricter gun control measures, even as more than a dozen Republican senators promised to...

NRA-backed panel offers school safety gun measures

2013-04-02 19:06:00

WASHINGTON— A National Rifle Assn.-backed task force unveiled a sweeping set of proposed school safety measures Tuesday, a counter to gun control bills introduced after the Connecticut mass shooting. The most attention-getting recommendation: to...

NRA-backed task force unveils sweeping school safety proposal

2013-04-02 11:53:00

WASHINGTON — A National Rifle Assn.-backed task force unveiled a sweeping set of proposed school safety measures Tuesday, the gun rights group’s counterproposal to the spate of gun control bills introduced in the wake of the mass shooting in...

Boys' basketball: Max Guercy picks up offer

2012-01-30 16:37:04

Book review: 'For the Love of Physics'

2011-07-03 00:00:00

For the Love of Physics From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time — A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics Walter Lewin, with Warren Goldstein Free Press, 302 pp., $26 For more than 30 years, the pioneering X-ray astrophysicist Walter...

Robot trained to care for the elderly at University of Connecticut

2010-11-18 16:33:49

Bernie Fuchs dies at 76; magazine illustrator

2009-10-02 23:06:00

Bernie Fuchs, an illustrator whose influential work for magazines ranging from Cosmopolitan to Sports Illustrated seamlessly blended qualities of traditional narrative with hints of abstract composition, died of esophageal cancer Sept. 17 at a care...

PASSINGS

2009-07-13 00:00:00

Harry J. Gray Former CEO of United Technologies Harry J. Gray, 89, the retired United Technologies Corp. chief executive who is credited with transforming the company into an industrial conglomerate, died Wednesday in Hartford, Conn., according to his...

Joza Karas dies at 82; musician revived compositions by Jews in concentration camp

2008-12-26 00:00:00

Joza Karas, a Czechoslovakian-born violin teacher who spent decades tracking down and reviving musical compositions written by Jews in the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt, died Nov. 28 at his home in Bloomfield, Conn. He was 82 and had congestive...

LETTER: Woman Carrying Shoes

2013-05-21 16:13:02

Love the color picture in The Courant of a University of Hartford graduate carrying her shoes at her commencement [May 20, Connecticut, "A Standing Ovation"]. Has any man ever been to any social event anywhere where females were not carrying their...

After delivering the keynote speech on Sunday afternoon at the University of Hartford, author Bernard Cornwell applauded the graduates for their accomplishments.

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Hartford Art School - The University of Hartford: Robert Calafiore, Nancy M. Stuart and Tom Bradley.

2013-04-23 11:30:00

President Barack Obama is greeted by Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra after arriving at Bradley International Airport on his way to deliver a speech at the University of Hartford Monday afternoon.

2013-04-08 00:00:00