WSHU - Site Search

About 300 Connecticut residents are hospitalized with COVID-19.

An unidentified woman prays at a makeshift memorial in the parking lot of the Connecticut Lottery headquarters in Newington, Conn. Tuesday, March 10, 1998. The memorial was constructed on the site where Connecticut Lottery President Otho R. Brown was gunned down by Matthew Beck on Friday, March 6, 1998. Lottery workers returned to work for the first time since the shooting. (AP Photo/Richard Mei)

Officially, they’re called "extreme risk protection orders." Most people know them as “red flag laws." And right now in Connecticut and New York, they’re evolving.

The Dobbs decision

Half of states plan to restrict or ban abortion after the Supreme Court ruling Friday overturned the right to an abortion nationwide. The other half, including New York and Connecticut, are trying to figure out what this turning point for reproductive justice means for its residents.

Premonitions

Commentator David Bouchier looks into the future and sees nothing very clearly.

Donald Carder wears his handgun in a holster as he pushes his son, Waylon, in a stroller at the National Rifle Association convention in Louisville, Ky., in May. Attendees at the convention are permitted to carry firearms under Kentucky's open-carry law.

Guns, pride and racial tension

A Long Island library removes all Pride books and displays from its children’s actions, leaving the LGBTQ+ community wounded. Also, a guidebook for Connecticut to deal with racial tensions, fair pay for women after 50 years of Title IX, and a Supreme Court decision strikes down New York’s conceal carry law.