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A Superior Court judge could decide this week whether to open the files of a 21-year-old Bloomfield man accused of fatally stabbing a University of Connecticut football player.

As we near the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, once again our country has been awash from shore to shore in a sea of pink - from pink ribbons and donation boxes to pink products, charity promotions, celebrities by the score and even pink cleats on NFL players.

KSippl Abstract Increasingly, scholars have taken note of the tendency for women to conceptualize issues such as security, peace, war, and the use of military force in different ways than their male counterparts.

After hype comes backlash, and once the Vivian Girls garnered acclaim from Pitchfork and other hipster publications, haters tried to knock them down by assailing their musical chops.

OK, so it's not the U.S. News and World Report on colleges, but the University of Connecticut just whupped Yale, Harvard and Princeton in the Fourth Annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card.

You say tomato, I say ... Now that the gardening season is grinding down to a halt after a few hard frosts, it time to look forwards to another year.

And they say kids don't care about health care. A bunch of social activist types staged a pro-health care reform rally on the University of Connecticut campus Wednesday afternoon, hoping toexplain to Joe Lieberman and others why they care about this issue.

There was an interesting sidelight to Detroit's game last week in Memphis. And for a change, it didn't revolve around Allen Iverson.

What a difference a day makes. Just on Monday in "Searching for Themes in the M.&A. Market," I reviewed the dreary figures and transactions in the mergers and acquisitions market last month and noted the absence of discernable trends.

ACTUP SF marches to a dangerous drummer, denying, against the vast preponderance of scientific evidence, that HIV causes AIDS.

ON OUR GAYDAR a ' News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. Oklahoma Tax Commission sued by a one Keith Kimmel, who wants his license plate to read "IM GAY.

The eloquent but misguided Michelle M. Gonzalez is very mistaken in her statement that the citizens of Connecticut owe a debt to Jasper Howard's family ["Howard Family's Loss Is Our Failure," Your View, Oct.

The Nov. 3 election to replace longtime Rep. John McHugh, a Republican appointed by President Obama to be Secretary of the Army, has especially drawn the attention of conservatives in recent weeks.

Former youth sports coach Robert Dulin, who served 18 months in prison for having a sexual relationship with a female player, was sent back to jail for 90 days Friday.

Local lore ... or lingering locals? by Chris Tanguay write the author October 29, 2009 In the 1860s, while the nation was elsewhere engaged the bloodiest war ever fought on United States soil, a Southbridge selectman named Manning Leonard, a prominent businessman of the time, resided in a luxurious home on Elm Street.

Should the swine flu curb your Halloween festivities? Between Halloween parties, trick-or-treating and sharing candy, the season seems fraught with germ-spreading opportunities.

All times for Saturday, Oct. 31 * Southbridge - Horribles Parade from Wells Middle School to the Town Common 5-5:30 p.m.; Trick-or-Treat 5:30-7:30 p.m. * Sturbridge - Trick-or-Treat 5-7 p.m.; Horribles Parade from Town Hall to Town Common at 7 p.m. * Charlton - 5:30-7:30 p.m. * Brimfield - 4-7 p.m. * Wales - 4-7 p.m. Texas law on children seeing ...

A University of Connecticut student faces a host of charges after he allegedly posted comments on internet message boards that threatened potential witnesses to the murder of UConn football player Jasper "Jazz" Howard.

The director of the Quinnipiac University Poll this summer gave advance results to Gov.

Dieters can boost their weight loss if they clean up their act at home and get a partner to lose weight with them, a new study shows.