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Posted Jun 28, 2020, 1:19 pm
Lisa Diethelm
/Cronkite News
Arizonans will face a 14-day quarantine if they travel to New York, New Jersey or Connecticut, whose governors announced the restriction Wednesday to keep people from COVID-19 “hot spots” from bringing the infection with them.... Read more»
Posted May 15, 2020, 9:25 am
Amy Martyn
/FairWarning
The FDA has repeatedly urged pregnant women to avoid medically unnecessary ultrasounds, saying it is aware of “several enterprises” in the U.S. that perform ultrasounds on pregnant women for entertainment’s sake and then sell the images as keepsake photographs and videos.... Read more»
Posted May 15, 2020, 8:29 am
Wissam Melhem
/Arizona Mirror
CVS Health announced it will open 10 COVID-19 drive-thru test sites in Arizona Friday, as part of the company’s second phase of efforts to help slow the spread of the virus. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 24, 2020, 5:17 pm
Eli Wolfe
/FairWarning
In 1976, a few years after OSHA was created, Congress attached a rider to the agency’s budget that exempted farms with 10 or fewer employees from enforcement. It shields farm owners from accountability when their workers die in preventable accidents.... Read more»
Posted Apr 2, 2020, 11:59 am
Amanda Pampuro
/Courthouse News Service
The U.S. Department of Labor reported 6.6 million people applied for unemployment insurance benefits over the last week—roughly 2% of the country’s population.
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Posted Jan 12, 2016, 10:29 am
Christine Stuart
/CTNewsJunkie.com
Gabrielle Giffords will sit with U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty on Tuesday night during President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address. Esty represents a Connecticut district that includes Newtown, site of the 2012 the Sandy Hook shooting that killed 28 people, including 20 children. ... Read more»
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Posted Dec 14, 2015, 12:01 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
In the wake of the Dec. 14, 2012, school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, thousands of Tucsonans wrote personal notes of support and caring on a 75-foot banner that was sent to Connecticut and hung over a Newtown roadway.... Read more»
Posted Aug 24, 2015, 5:33 pm
Nick Swyter, Lex Talamo & Calah Kelley/News21
An ever-growing lobby of tenacious parents are pushing politicians to legalize medical marijuana for children with epilepsy and other serious conditions. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 22, 2015, 4:34 pm
Katie Campbell, Anne M. Shearer, Lauren del Valle & Rilwan Balogun/News21
Every state regulates medical marijuana differently. The result is wide disparities across the country, including everything from lab testing to costs. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 29, 2014, 5:43 pm
Kirsten Kraklio
/Cronkite News Service
With no funding and facing a July deadline to gather 173,000 signatures, a Tucson man is out to require labels telling consumers whether food products are genetically engineered or made with genetically engineered ingredients.... Read more»
Posted Dec 12, 2013, 5:32 pm
Nicholas Kusnetz
/Center for Public Integrity
Guns or funds? Districts debate what it will take to make kids safer, and schools and state governments have feverishly searched for ways to protect their students. State legislators introduced hundreds of pieces of legislation on school safety. Many called for arming more security guards or, like a law passed in Texas, for arming teachers.... Read more»
Posted Apr 2, 2013, 9:34 am
Faine Greenwood
/GlobalPost
The state of Connecticut has enacted some of the toughest gun laws in the U.S. as of April 1st, legislative leaders announced after coming to a consensus on the measures — a legislative breakthrough linked to the tragic Newtown shootings in December.... Read more»
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Posted Mar 12, 2013, 1:31 pm
Lilly Fowler
/FairWarning
An interview with an expert on gun violence, who's backing the push for universal background checks.... Read more»
Posted Jan 16, 2013, 8:09 pm
Connor Radnovich
/Cronkite News Service
A packed congressional hearing room gave a standing ovation Wednesday to Emily Nottingham, whose testimony about her son killed in a 2011 Tucson shooting spree brought several people to tears. “We have allowed ourselves to overemphasize gun rights to the detriment of other rights, including the most important, the right to be alive,” she said.... Read more»
Posted Jan 14, 2013, 10:38 am
Neera Tanden, Winnie Stachelberg, Arkadi Gerney & Danielle Baussan/Center for American Progress
After last month’s senseless shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut—in which 20 children and 6 adults were shot and killed—we need to immediately address the gaps in our current law that enable mass shootings, as well as the everyday shootings that on average claim the lives of 33 Americans each day.... Read more»
Posted Jan 14, 2013, 10:13 am
Susan Ferriss
/Center for Public Integrity
As the White House considers proposals to allocate federal money for armed guards in schools, prominent school-discipline reform groups have issued a report denouncing the idea as a misguided reaction to the Newtown school shooting.... Read more»