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“It’s really just about fairness and giving smaller institutions a chance to compete over quality and price,” said Ellen Andrews, executive director of the Connecticut Health Policy Project. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

“March madness,” recalled Mayor Jay Moran, who was the athletic director of Southern Connecticut State University when the National Guard rolled up and converted SCSU’s field house into a field hospital. “Remember that, governor?” Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Conservationists in Connecticut are scrambling to stop the sale of a large parcel of land in Killingworth, which they say should be maintained as a camping ground or nature reserve. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

This budget proposal includes a 2.5 percent increase for the Board of Education, short of the 4.57 percent it asked for in its budget proposal. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Derby first responders went to Griffin Hospital on Tuesday night to help medical personnel remove a doorknob that was stuck on a child’s finger. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A former FedEx driver, awaiting trial on rape charges, was charged Tuesday with an earlier home invasion. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

“We have to strike a balance between doing what’s best for the juvenile and also public safety and these victims,” said Rep. Greg Howard, a Republican representative and a Stonington police officer. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

In 1989, lawyers for 10-year-old Juan F. and other children filed the lawsuit, challenging DCF’s (then the Department of Children and Youth Services) practices, funding and policies. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Connecticut restaurants are helping Ukrainian refugees by collecting money for relief or donating a portion of their proceeds. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A former dishwasher at Vazzy’s in Bridgeport pleaded guilty to a sex assault that led to restaurateur John Vazzano’s arrest. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Firefighters freed a driver trapped in their vehicle after a crash on Interstate 95 north in Fairfield on Monday afternoon, officials said. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The former owners of restaurants in Bridgeport and Stratford were ordered to pay $150,000 to former employees. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Police say they have made a fourth arrest in a violent attack on an Uber Eats driver in Westport last weekend. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The state is financing almost all of the cost of multiple school projects in Hartford, but investigators have zeroed in on the $150 million overhaul of Bulkeley High School on the city’s southside, according to public records and interviews with more than a half dozen people familiar with the project.In particular, the investigators appear interested…

Republican candidate for governor Bob Stefanowski is counting on a legion of Republican women, driven by concerns over inflation, crime and pandemic-related restrictions, to help him beat Democrat Ned Lamont in November. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

According to site plans, the current cleanup efforts will be focused on two locations — the tidal mudflats and a drainage ditch called “Outfall-008.” Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A basement fire brought crews out to a Chapel Street home Sunday evening, according to fire officials. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Yale secured the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament with a win Sunday over Princeton. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

And as November’s state-wide elections near, the battle to frame the state’s financial outlook — as the best of times or the worst of times — is only expected to intensify. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, Connecticut faces a deepening crisis in children’s mental health care, according to multiple experts and lawmakers. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Connecticut school districts hired more than 1,900 new educators of color between 2017 and 2021, finally meeting the state’s goal of raising the statewide percentage of educators of color to 10%, from 8.3% in 2015. It’s a modest improvement, but teacher diversity still lags behind students — an urgent dilemma, given the well-documented benefits a…

STRATFORD — Town Tree Warden Kelly Kerrigan has requested that the Town Council revisit plans for the Longbrook Park tennis court project to see if fewer mature trees can be taken down with an alternate layout, according to a message released on the town website Thursday. The decision comes after multiple residents questioned at a…