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Court: Medical board's discussion violated FOI law

The state Medical Examining Board held an illegal secret meeting in 2009 as it was being asked to decide whether it was ethical for doctors to take part in lethal injection executions, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Monday. The court unanimously upheld decisions by a lower court and the state ...

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 20, 2013 file photo Thomas C. Suedhof delivers a speech during the 2013 Lasker Awards ceremony in New York. German-born researcher Suedhof and Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine it was announced on Monday Oct. 7, 2013. The Nobel committee cited "their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

2 Americans, German-American win Nobel in medicine

Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for illuminating how tiny bubbles inside cells shuttle key substances around like a vast and highly efficient fleet of vans, delivering the right cargo to the right place at the right time. Scientists believe the research could someday ...

'Hump Day' Craze Infects Conn. Middle School

'Hump Day' Craze Infects Conn. Middle School

So many kids at a Connecticut middle school are repeating a commercial catchphrase that teachers and adminstrators have had to take action to keep it from becoming a major distraction. (Oct. 7)

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) is sacked by Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Wallace Gilberry (95) in the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Tom Uhlman)

Bengals end Brady's streak, beat Patriots 13-6

Tom Brady couldn't get into the end zone against a defense that's developing a reputation for taking down the league's top quarterbacks. Aaron Rodgers found out. And so did Brady, running on empty all game long. The Bengals ended Brady's streak of 52 consecutive games with a touchdown pass on ...

Yale searches for stinker adding feces to dryers

Yale University hopes to solve a case of whodungit by identifying the stinker who has been soiling students' laundry by sticking human feces inside clothes dryers. The culprit has been dubbed the "poopetrator" and is being blamed for at least four incidents in the past month in the laundry room ...

Caravaggio painting coming to Detroit art museum

An early masterpiece by the Italian artist Caravaggio is coming to Detroit. "Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy" will be displayed at the Detroit Institute of Arts beginning this week and running into mid-January. It's on loan from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Conn., and will be ...

Health reform measures pushing Conn. to innovate

While Connecticut embraced setting up a health insurance exchange and expanding Medicaid eligibility faster than many other places, the state has lagged behind when it comes to modernizing how health care is delivered to patients. But with the new health care overhaul law and a growing push in the state ...

CORRECTS AMY CAREY TO AMY CAREY-JONES - Amy Carey-Jones, center, sister of Miriam Carey, speaks to the media outside the home of her sister Valarie, left, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, in New York. Law-enforcement authorities have identified Miriam Carey, 34, as the woman who, with a 1-year-old child in her car, led Secret Service and police on a harrowing chase in Washington from the White House past the Capitol Thursday, attempting to penetrate the security barriers at both national landmarks before she was shot to death, police said. The child survived. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Use of force to be studied in DC police chase

Police in Washington are reviewing the use of officers' deadly force in the killing of a woman who tried to ram her car through a White House barrier, a shooting her family says was unjustified. The investigation will reconstruct the car chase and shooting, which briefly put the U.S. Capitol ...

Winning numbers drawn in 'Powerball' game

The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Powerball" game were: 11-12-17-39-40, Powerball: 5 (eleven, twelve, seventeen, thirty-nine, forty; Powerball: five) Estimated jackpot: $86 million ___ Online: Multi-State Lottery Association: http://www.powerball.com/

Man pleads guilty in hole-in-one prize case

A businessman accused of failing to pay golfers for their hole-in-one prizes has pleaded guilty in Washington state to three felonies. Kevin Kolenda, 55, of Norwalk, Conn., pleaded guilty Friday two counts of selling insurance without a license and one count of first-degree theft. He will be sentenced in the ...

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