UConn

Frankie & Johnny: Jan. 27, 2023: Shootings in California reverberate in Connecticut. New Haven marks the Lunar New Year. Lawmakers consider gun violence proposals.

UConn’s athletic department deficit rose to $53 million during the 2022 fiscal year. The school says the increase can be attributed to $13.4 million it was forced to pay former men’s basketball head coach Kevin Ollie.

UConn women's basketball improves to 8-0 in the Big East and 15-2 overall despite a season rife with injuries.

Frankie & Johnny: January 13, 2023. Topics this week include the sales launch of marijuana for recreational use; efforts by Connecticut officials to erase cannabis convictions in tandem with the broadening of adult-use pot in Connecticut; and the success of the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team in the face of mounting injuries.

Our weekly news roundup covers the tragic death of a state lawmaker in a wrong-way crash and the suspension of an attorney representing Alex Jones in Connecticut.

Despite dressing just eight players Tuesday night and not having head coach Geno Auriemma on the sideline due to illness, Uconn beat Butler 80-47.

Frankie & Johnny: Dec. 9, 2022. Topics this week include the legalization of marijuana in Connecticut for recreational use, bivalent COVID-19 vaccines for young children and settlement talks in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Black man severely injured in police custody.

A food pantry that started as a class project at the University of Connecticut’s Stamford location will soon feed hundreds of food-insecure students on four different campuses.

Frankie & Johnny: November 18, 2022. Topics this week include energy providers in Connecticut Eversource and United Illuminating announcing rate hikes set for January, a national “invasion of privacy” settlement with tech giant Google, and the University of Connecticut college football team becoming “bowl-eligible.”

Frankie & Johnny: Nov. 11, 2022. Topics this week include a roundup of the 2022 midterm elections, early voting constitutional amendment passing in Connecticut, and Alex Jones ordered to pay a half a billion dollars more to Sandy Hook plaintiffs. And a Happy Veterans Day to service members.