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Opposition from state veterans groups prompted Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to reverse his support Monday for using state funds to repair a New Haven community center that houses a Communist newspaper. Malloy, whose administration has gone back and forth on whether to finance $300,000 in renovations for the New Haven People's Center, issued a brief statement during the State Bond Commission meeting before moving on to the next agenda item without discussion. And one of the two Republican legislators who spearheaded opposition to the funding, Rep. Sean J. Williams of Watertown, said after he would ask the Democratic governor's administration...

Filed at 2:54 p.m. ET HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The campaign manager for Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Bill Curry acknowledged that a staff member helped set up a noisy protest that disrupted a tour by the Republican incumbent. Campaign manager Roy Occhiogrosso said he planned to take action against the worker, but would not say whether the person would be fired. ``It shouldn't have happened and it won't happen again. I'm taking care of it internally,'' he said Tuesday. ``It is not the job of any member of this campaign to disrupt any public function.'' Gov. John G. Rowland and the...