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Breaking news/Crime reporter for Hearst Connecticut Media. Loves animals, margaritas, having a blast and caramel apples.
Timeline: What led to the death of 11-year-old Jacqueline 'Mimi' Torres-Garcia
November 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Timeline: What led to the death of 11-year-old Jacqueline 'Mimi' Torres-Garcia
This is why I need one of these. Just sayin'
July 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is why I need one of these. Just sayin'
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Veterans are increasingly likely to be diagnosed with cancer. We’re opening a new clinical trial that will provide veterans with a novel cancer screening test to help catch cancer in its earliest stages. Learn more about how to participate: bit.ly/3TjeqMM
Novel Cancer Screening Test for Veterans Now Being Offered at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is now offering a novel cancer screening tool for U.S. veterans to evaluate whether cancer can be detected in earlier and more treatable stages among this population.
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July 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Veterans are increasingly likely to be diagnosed with cancer. We’re opening a new clinical trial that will provide veterans with a novel cancer screening test to help catch cancer in its earliest stages. Learn more about how to participate: bit.ly/3TjeqMM
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The AMA has spent significantly more money funding Republican politicians over the past 35 yrs than Democrats, including >46% of their federal campaign contributions in the 2023-2024 election cycle when Project 2025 Medicaid & social service cuts were on the line: www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...
July 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The AMA has spent significantly more money funding Republican politicians over the past 35 yrs than Democrats, including >46% of their federal campaign contributions in the 2023-2024 election cycle when Project 2025 Medicaid & social service cuts were on the line: www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...
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People who get cancer say their friends often disappear when they hear the bad news. Don't be that person! Here's advice for what to do and say — and what not to say — when a loved one faces cancer. https://n.pr/3ZYk0rD
The best support for a friend with cancer? Presence, listening and space to vent
People who get cancer say their friends often disappear when they hear the bad news. Don't be that person! Here's advice for what to do and say — and what not to say — when a loved one faces cancer.
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June 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
People who get cancer say their friends often disappear when they hear the bad news. Don't be that person! Here's advice for what to do and say — and what not to say — when a loved one faces cancer. https://n.pr/3ZYk0rD
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Trump: "I'm not happy with Israel...We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing."
June 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Kent Mawhinney pleads guilty to lesser charge in Jennifer Dulos case, gets time served www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article...
Kent Mawhinney pleads guilty to lesser charge in Jennifer Dulos case, gets time served
A prosecutor said there was not enough evidence to take the conspiracy to commit murder charge to trial.
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June 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Kent Mawhinney pleads guilty to lesser charge in Jennifer Dulos case, gets time served www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article...
CT DPH didn't alert public or health care systems about nurses with fraudulent degrees, officials say www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
CT DPH didn't alert public or health care systems about nurses with fraudulent degrees, officials say
Unlike health agencies in other states, officials say Connecticut didn't notify the public or health care providers about nurses connected with college degree scam.
www.ctinsider.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
CT DPH didn't alert public or health care systems about nurses with fraudulent degrees, officials say www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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Been a busy couple days with a lot of news, so I forgot to share my latest yesterday: www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
Former Yale student gives harrowing account of ICE arrest, detention
A former Yale student who was recently released from a federal immigration facility after being tased and arrested in a Hartford courthouse has given a harrowing account of his weeks-long detention.
www.ctinsider.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Been a busy couple days with a lot of news, so I forgot to share my latest yesterday: www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
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Amazing scoop by my colleagues at fellow Hearst paper @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...
Exclusive: DHS secretary sought military arrests and drones in Los Angeles in leaked letter
The military is generally barred from domestic law enforcement. Granting Kristi Noem’s request would likely require the administration to sidestep those laws by invoking the Insurrection Act.
www.sfchronicle.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Amazing scoop by my colleagues at fellow Hearst paper @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...
Leaders of college degree scam linked to 127 CT nurses got $7M to recruit students, records show www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
Leaders of college degree scam linked to 127 CT nurses got $7M to recruit students, records show
The leaders of the scam, linked to 7,500 nurses nationwide, including more than 100 in Connecticut, received millions in kickbacks to recruit students, records show.
www.ctinsider.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Leaders of college degree scam linked to 127 CT nurses got $7M to recruit students, records show www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
69 more Connecticut nursing licenses may get revoked amid federal investigation into fake degrees www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
69 more Connecticut nursing licenses may get revoked amid federal investigation into fake degrees
Some of the students were defrauded, while others may have known they were cutting corners when getting a nursing degree, officials said.
www.ctinsider.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
69 more Connecticut nursing licenses may get revoked amid federal investigation into fake degrees www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
Connecticut nurse suspended after obtaining degree from Florida school facing federal investigation www.nhregister.com/news/article...
Connecticut nurse suspended after obtaining degree from Florida school facing federal investigation
The Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing suspended the license of a nurse whose degree is from a school accused of selling them without giving training.
www.nhregister.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Connecticut nurse suspended after obtaining degree from Florida school facing federal investigation www.nhregister.com/news/article...
Stay tuned. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
Suspect in CT, Mass. child sex assaults tried to buy victims' silence as accusations grow: Police
Derrick Gaither of West Springfield used money and gifts to buy the silence of children he was sexually assaulting in Middletown and Enfield, police say.
www.ctinsider.com
June 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Stay tuned. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
I did this story and others 19 years ago and it changed my life. Thank you Chris and Ryan. One man's lost battle with heroin www.registercitizen.com/news/article...
One man's lost battle with heroin
By LISA BACKUS
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May 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I did this story and others 19 years ago and it changed my life. Thank you Chris and Ryan. One man's lost battle with heroin www.registercitizen.com/news/article...
A gorilla in CT? False rumor of silverback headed to Hartford Hospital travels on TikTok, Reddit www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
A gorilla in CT? False rumor of silverback headed to Hartford Hospital travels on TikTok, Reddit
Officials on Thursday learned more about the origins of a false rumor on TikTok and Reddit that a gorilla went to Hartford Hospital this week for treatment.
www.ctinsider.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A gorilla in CT? False rumor of silverback headed to Hartford Hospital travels on TikTok, Reddit www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
Listen to "Ep. 16 Elissa Kalver - The One Where We Discuss Thriving with Metastatic Cancer and How Together, We’ve Got This" by Stacey Garcia via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-1...
Ep. 16 Elissa Kalver - The One Where We Discuss Thriving with Metastatic Cancer and How Together, We’ve Got This
In this episode of 'Never Miss a Monday,' Stacy Garcia welcomes Elissa Kalver, a courageous woman diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer at just 34 yea
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May 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Listen to "Ep. 16 Elissa Kalver - The One Where We Discuss Thriving with Metastatic Cancer and How Together, We’ve Got This" by Stacey Garcia via #spreaker www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-1...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.
RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said the agency will create “in-house” publications instead.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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And in case you were under the impression it’s over, last month an average of 350 people per week died of #COVID in the US.
A bit jarring to go from one article describing a new #COVID variant leading to increased hospitalizations in Asia that has now detected in US to the next article about how the US is recommending fewer people get vaccinated.
May 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
And in case you were under the impression it’s over, last month an average of 350 people per week died of #COVID in the US.
19-year-old Waterbury resident charged in shootings at Brass Mill Center mall that left 5 injured www.ctinsider.com/waterbury/ar...
19-year-old Waterbury resident charged in shootings at Brass Mill Center mall that left 5 injured
Tajuan Washington, 19, of Waterbury was identified as the suspect in a shooting at Brass Mill Center Tuesday that left five people injured.
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May 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
19-year-old Waterbury resident charged in shootings at Brass Mill Center mall that left 5 injured www.ctinsider.com/waterbury/ar...
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May 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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CT man and nurse disciplined for drug use paid for monkey torture videos, documents show www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
CT man and nurse disciplined for drug use paid for monkey torture videos, documents show
A Connecticut nurse disciplined for drug use and falsifying records was purchasing monkey torture videos while her license was on probation, documents show.
www.ctinsider.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
CT man and nurse disciplined for drug use paid for monkey torture videos, documents show www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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May 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
For the @iamals.bsky.sociall Day of Action, we thank you and challenge you to do the action in the video. #ALSisHere #SoAreWe
www.iamals.org/research-fun...
www.iamals.org/take-the-nex...
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