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Connecticut lawmakers pass sweeping gun measure
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Gun legislation that advocacy groups call the
strongest and most comprehensive to be taken up
across the nation moved closer to passage early
Thursday in Connecticut. The House vote, 105-44,
followed passage by the Senate a day earlier. The
bill, which is expected to be signed by Gov.
Dannel Malloy, would make Connecticut the third
state (New York and Colorado) to pass such a
tough measure following the December rampage in
Newtown. Debate on the legislation, which was
drawn up by a bipartisan legislative task force,
was emotional at times Wednesday. Some questioned
whether the bill dealt enough with the state's
mental health system, a reference to the accused
shooter.
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  that the National Baseball Hall of Fame calls
  "the Holy Grail" has already reached 1.6
  million. The 1909 card of Pittsburgh Pirate
  shortstop Honus Wagner is being auctioned off by
  Goldin Auctions in West Berlin, New Jersey.
  Bidding started at 500,000 on Feb. 25. The
  actual bidding is up to 1.47 million, but there
  is a 10 buyer's premium added to the price.
  There's a whole lot of hullabaloo surrounding the
  T206 card, since there are only about 50 in
  existence. The card is in such short supply
  because Wagner made the American Tobacco Company
  recall it when he discovered it had made the card
  without his permission. He didn't want kids to
  buy cigarettes, the auction house said.
• A video released by ESPN shows Rutgers
  University's head basketball coach shoving
  players, kicking them, hurling balls at their
  heads and yelling what appears to be homophobic
  slurs and profanity. Rutgers athletic director
  Tom Pernetti suspended the coach for three games
  and fined him 50,000 after watching the video in
  November. He said he chose suspension rather than
  termination even though both options were on the
  table.
• North Korea on Wednesday stirred up fresh unease
  in Northeast Asia, blocking hundreds of South
  Koreans from entering a joint industrial complex
  that serves as an important symbol of cooperation
  between the two countries. North Korea's decision
  Wednesday to prevent South Korean workers and
  managers from entering the Kaesong Industrial
  Complex, which sits on the North's side of the
  border but houses operations of scores of South
  Korean companies, is a tangible sign of the
  tensions between the two sides.