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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut judge will hear arguments on whether gun maker Remington Arms' company documents should be sealed from public view as it fights a lawsuit filed by families of some of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's health insurance exchange will hold more enrollment fairs this weekend to help up to 18,000 people who no longer qualify for Medicaid health coverage to enroll in private insurance plans.

SOUTHBURY -- Firefighters quickly extinguished a flaming car on Georges Hill Road Thursday morning. Fire Chief Dan Tomascak said the engine compartment of a vehicle was burning and firefighters doused the flames.

HARTFORD — The latest economic numbers show Connecticut lags behind the rest of New England in economic growth.

HARTFORD — Public defenders received pay raises without proper documentation that the court-appointed lawyers were satisfactorily doing their jobs.

HARTFORD — State election regulators are being asked to investigate a new Republican complaint related to the recently settled investigation of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's 2014 re-election campaign.

LITCHFIELD — The focus of the town's facilities committee on Wednesday night turned to the idea of building a new town hall on the lot behind the existing building.

TORRINGTON — A new permanent superintendent to lead the city's school district could be in place by Jan. 1 if all goes as planned.

TORRINGTON — A group of more than 60 residents and Torrington firefighters gathered Wednesday at Coe Park to honor local veterans of the Korean War with a ceremony marking the 63rd anniversary of the armistice signed on July 27, 1953.

WATERBURY — An attorney representing fired Bunker Hill Principal Brian F. Goggin asked a judge Wednesday to return Goggin to work or, failing that, agree that he'd effectively retired before getting fired.