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Economy Jan 14
Connecticut probing Amazon’s e-book deals with publishersConnecticut authorities are investigating whether Amazon's e-book deals with certain publishers are anticompetitive and violate antitrust laws.
Nation Feb 25
39 states investigate Juul’s marketing of vaping productsInvestigators from 39 states will look into the marketing and sales of vaping products by Juul Labs, including whether the company targeted youths and made misleading claims about nicotine content in its devices, officials announced Tuesday.
Nation Sep 12
Some states say they’ll keep fighting Purdue Pharma in courtCourtroom showdowns still face OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and the family that owns it, the Sacklers. But after a tentative settlement reached Wednesday with thousands of local governments and more than 20 states, the fight will be less about the…
Nation Sep 11
OxyContin maker agrees to tentative settlement, attorneys sayAttorneys representing some 2,000 local governments say they have agreed to a tentative settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma over the toll of the nation's opioid crisis.
Nation Apr 26
Police release footage after shooting on unarmed black couple in ConnecticutFacing protests and concerned about losing the community's trust, Connecticut officials were unusually quick to release police body camera and surveillance videos of a shooting by two police officers, who opened fire on a young, unarmed couple in their car…
Nation Apr 17
Appeal focuses on Newtown officials’ actions before shootingA Connecticut appeals court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit alleging Sandy Hook Elementary School officials failed to order a lockdown that could have saved lives before a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators in 2012.
Arts Apr 10
Charles Van Doren, figure in game show scandals, dies at 93The handsome scion of a prominent literary family, Van Doren was the central figure in the TV game show scandals of the late 1950s and eventually pleaded guilty to perjury for lying to a grand jury that investigated them.
Nation Mar 14
Gun maker can be sued over Newtown shooting, court rulesJustices reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against Remington and overturned the ruling of a lower court judge, who said the entire lawsuit was prohibited by a 2005 federal law.