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FILE - Bloomfield High School transgender athlete Terry Miller, second from left, wins the final of the 55-meter dash over transgender athlete Andraya Yearwood, far left, and other runners in the Connecticut girls Class S indoor track meet at Hillhouse High School, on Feb. 7, 2019, in New Haven, Conn. A federal appeals court on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, dismissed a challenge to Connecticut's policy of allowing transgender girls to compete girls' high school sports, rejecting arguments...

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Court upholds Connecticut’s transgender athlete policy

by Dave Collins Associated PressDecember 16, 2022

HARTFORD, Conn. — A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a challenge to Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, rejecting arguments by four cisgender runners who said they were unfairly forced to…

A visitor to the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial sits on one of the benches during twilight on Dec. 5 in Newtown, Conn. The names of the 20 first graders and six educators killed a short distance away at Sandy Hook Elementary School 10 years ago are engraved in concrete around a memorial pool with a sycamore tree in the middle.

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A decade after Sandy Hook, grief remains but hope grows

by Dave Collins Associated PressDecember 13, 2022

FILE - Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy protection in Texas as he faces nearly $1.5 billion in court judgments over conspiracy theories he spread about the Sandy Hook school massacre. Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in bankruptcy court in Houston on Friday, Dec. 2. (Tyler...

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Infowars host Alex Jones files for personal bankruptcy

by Dave Collins Associated Press, and Jill Bleed Associated PressDecember 2, 2022

FILE - In this June 15, 2017 photo, people walk inside the Oculus in New York. Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations. State attorneys general announced the settlement Monday, Nov. 14, 2022 calling it the largest multistate privacy settlement in U.S history. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

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Google, 40 states settle location-tracking dispute for $392M

by Dave Collins Associated Press, and Marcy Gordon Associated PressNovember 14, 2022

Flowers lie next to the name of Charlotte Bacon, carved in the stone of a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in Newtown, Conn., Sunday.

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Sandy Hook memorial opens to public

by Dave Collins Associated PressNovember 13, 2022

Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Sept. 22.

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Jones fined another $473M

by Dave Collins Associated PressNovember 10, 2022

FILE - Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. A six-person jury reached a verdict Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, saying that Jones should pay $965 million to 15 plaintiffs who suffered from his lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre. Jones and his company were found liable for damages last year. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via...

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Jones ordered to pay $965M for Sandy Hook lies

by Dave Collins Associated PressOctober 12, 2022

Nicole Hockley, mother of slain Sandy Hook Elementary student Dylan Hockley, testifies in the Alex Jones defamation trial in Waterbury, Conn., Tuesday.

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Families tell of pain inflicted by Sandy Hook deniers

by Dave Collins Associated Press, and Pat Eaton-Robb Associated PressSeptember 27, 2022

Plaintiff's attorney Chris Mattei, left, questions Conspiracy theorist Alex Jonesduring testimony at the Alex Jones Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn. Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. Jones was found liable last year by default for damages to plaintiffs without a trial, as punishment for what the judge called his repeated failures to turn over documents to their lawyers. The six-member jury is now deciding how much Jones and Free Speech...

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Jones testifies in Sandy Hook hoax trial

by Dave Collins Associated Press, and Pat Eaton-Robb Associated PressSeptember 22, 2022

FILE - Packaging for an electronic cigarette and menthol pods from Juul Labs is displayed on Feb. 25, 2020, in Pembroke Pines, Fla. In a deal announced Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs will pay nearly $440 million to settle a two-year investigation by 33 states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

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Juul to pay $440M in teen vaping probe

by Matthew Perrone Associated Press, and Dave Collins Associated PressSeptember 6, 2022