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Lillian Carter Hendrix, owner of Queen Forever hair salon, details her struggle to keep the business afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. Discriminating against natural hairstyles will soon be illegal in Connecticut, the latest state to prohibit prejudice against such styles in schools and workplaces. The state voted to pass The CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural hair) in a 33-0 vote to be signed into law by Gov. Ned Lamont. "This measure is critical to helping bu...

Breaking from Connecticut's 30-year relationship with the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot Tribes, giving them exclusive gambling rights in the new...

Opponents of mandatory vaccinations for public school dominate hearing FacebookTwitterEmail School buses are parked in neat rows at the Trumbull school bus depot at 81 Spring Hill Road in Trumbull, Conn. on Wednesday, April 1, 2020.Brian A. Pounds/Hearst Connecticut Media Dozens of parents on Tuesday threatened to move out of the state — and at least one suggested legal action — if the General Assembly makes them vaccinate their kids to attend public and private school. The hearing that was...

Can you believe that the State of Connecticut doesnt have an official state dog? Well that could all change if one State Senator has any say in the matter. Lets see, Connecticut already has a state flower, the Mountain-Laurel, a state bird, American Robin, a state nickname (actually two), the Nutmeg State and the Constitution State and heck, we even have a state shellfish, the Eastern Oyster. So why has it taken this long to even consider the fact that the state should have a state dog. Now ac...

Connecticut lawmakers have introduced a bill to make pizza the Constitution State's official food, but New York and New Jersey aren't having it.

PMQ Pizza Magazine Could Pizza Become the Official Food of This Northeastern State? Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana is probably the most famous restaurant offering New Haven-style apizza in Connecticut. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana / Facebook Could Pizza Become the Official Food of This Northeastern State? Connecticut has a state animal, insect and even a polka dance. Now the legislature may finally give apizza the respect it deserves. A pair of state legislators from New Hav...

Dennis House Chats This Weekend On WSBS Litchfield County, Connecticut (aka The North West Corner) as we are pleased to welcome veteran news anchor Dennis House to the WSBS airwaves. The native New Englander from Norwood, Massachusetts has logged in over three decades of on-camera experience as Dennis has embarked on a new adventure at New Haven based WTNH-TV (News 8) after spending about 28 years at WFSB-TV (channel 3) in the Constitution States capital city of Hartford and Rocky Hill. He cu...

As the vaccine rollout continues, there remain many outstanding questions about them and their distribution. But there are also some answers.

Dayton Kingery: ​3 Ways to Lift Your Spirits During the Pandemic - Greenwich, CT - 2020 may be over, but the pandemic is still here in Greenwich. Dayton Kingery provides advice for those in the Constitution State

President-elect Biden will release ALL available COVID vaccine doses Natalie Rahhal U.S. Health Editor and Mary Kekatos Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo President-elect Joe Biden will distribute all doses of coronavirus vaccines Pfizer and Moderna provide to the US as soon as they are available, reversing the Trump administrations strategy of holding back half the supply as booster doses for those who get their first shots, a t...