Davis Dunavin
ReporterDavis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. An Edward R. Murrow Award-winning and Peabody Award-nominated journalist, he is the host of WSHU's Off the Path and created and hosted the 2022 series Still Newtown. He also teaches classes in media studies at Sacred Heart University. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.
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The state could strengthen homeschooling regulations in the wake of several high-profile cases of abuse and neglect.
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Thousands rallied across Connecticut and Long Island during “No Kings” protests, joining a national movement opposing the Trump administration's actions on immigration, the environment and government cuts.
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The water company that supplies hundreds of thousands of people across New England can be sold after all. Opponents say it's a cash grab by Eversource that will cost Connecticut residents.
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A controversial multi-billion-dollar water sale is back before Connecticut’s top energy regulators. The issue is whether Eversource can sell Aquarion, which supplies water to hundreds of thousands of people.
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Calls are surging at unprecedented levels to the Connecticut hotline meant to connect people with housing and other social services.
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Connecticut is on the verge of changing how schools handle lockdown drills, especially those meant to simulate mass shootings.
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Still getting over an ex? Norwalk’s Maritime Aquarium has a cure. For Valentine’s Day, name a cockroach, worm or fish after them and watch it fed to a lizard, turtle or seal.
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Amid cold temperatures, Connecticut Department of Transportation officials cleared a homeless encampment beneath a New Haven overpass and filled in the area with boulders to prevent people from returning.
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It’s believed that some of the oldest preserved depictions of Jesus Christ are from a town in Syria, abandoned nearly 2000 years ago. The paintings, on a rough stone wall, can be seen at the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven.
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The Yale Art Gallery holds some treasures from an ancient city in Syria, where many religions flourished side by side, including a new one called Christianity. The city was attacked, abandoned, and then rediscovered by archeologists in the 1920s. But tragedy struck the city again, more recently, at the hands of terrorists.