Bridgeport domestic violence program seeks donations

The Center for Family Justice is seeking people to help with its annual Adopt-a-Family program. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Milford police seek video footage after vehicles entered

Milford police are reminding residents to lock their car doors after recent activity in the area of Lexington Green and Fresh Meadow Lane. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

‘This is an evolution’: Study shows rapid rise of telemedicine during COVID

The study revealed more than 50 percent of the people surveyed had used telemedicine in the past six months. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

World War II veterans Bob and Jimmy Elsner — brothers in arms, brothers for life

Bob and Jimmy Elsner, brothers in life and arms, are among the dwindling number of Connecticut’s World War II veterans. As Veterans Day approached, the brothers, ages 99 and 101, reflected on their service. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Hartford Foundation announces landmark $2.5M grant initiative aimed at empowering Black, Latinx communities

In the face of what they see as dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving announced a landmark $2.5 million grant initiative that they hope will empower Black and Latinx organizations to use their own connections and experience to benefit their communities. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press…

These Connecticut schools have closed due to coronavirus cases among students or staff

Since Connecticut’s public schools began reopening in late August, a handful have temporarily shut down in-person learning due to confirmed cases of COVID-19 among staff or students. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Study: CT mosquito population jumps 60 percent in 20 years

A study from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station shows climate change may have played a role in the rapidly growing mosquito population in the state. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Police: Vehicle may have fled fiery tractor-trailer crash

Police are seeking witnesses to an accident that closed part of Interstate 91 for hours on Tuesday. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Democrats want to expand borrowing to protect CT programs amid pandemic

Speaker-elect Matt Ritter and other Democrats say the state has plenty of room to borrow money to help preserve several key programs. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Federal building in Hartford closes for at least a day after a security guard tests positive for coronavirus

Federal district court employees who work in the building were told by email that they had been ordered to leave by Chief U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill and that it would be a day before affected areas could be disinfected by the building administrator, the federal General Services Administration. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News…

From college to operating room nurse, a scholarship program at the University of Saint Joseph made a critical difference

The gift of a scholarship has propelled Elizabeth Santic into a cardiovascular operating room at Hartford Hospital, where as a nurse she monitors patients suffering from aneurysms, heart conditions and assists surgeons with cardiopulmonary bypass machines and open-heart surgeries. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Lawyer who founded veterans charity in Connecticut sentenced to prison for scamming donors

With angry victims demanding a stiff penalty for disgraced Litchfield attorney Kevin Creed, a federal judge on Monday sentenced him to three and a half years in prison for swindling $1.4 million from a Connecticut veterans charity. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Stratford High School goes to remote learning until Nov. 30 due to COVID-19

As of Tuesday morning, there were three students and nine staff members with confirmed positive cases currently isolating. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Police: Man killed in shooting marks Hartford’s 22nd homicide of 2020

A 38-year-old man was killed in a Sunday morning shooting on McKinley Street, police said. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Hartford police: ‘Excessive speed’ a factor in fatal crash

Police said the driver hit the curb, lost control, crossed the road, hit an embankment and then crashed into a tree. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Yale professor Marcella Nunez-Smith named co-chair of Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force

Yale School of Medicine professor Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith has been named one of three co-chairs of Joe Biden’s coronavirus task force, the president-elect announced Monday. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Police release names of drivers who struck Stamford bicyclist in deadly collision

A 19-year old Stamford man died after he was thrown from his bicycle by a car and then struck by a second vehicle, police said Saturday. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

All New London public schools closed because of the coronavirus

Every public school in New London is closed this week because of student COVID-19 infections. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Officials: Unconscious person pulled from burning car at cemetery

A person suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a car fire at a local cemetery over the weekend, according to fire officials. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Shoe, fishing gear found near unoccupied kayak in CT

Officials say the kayak was found unoccupied after officers responded on a report of an empty vessel and a person in the river. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Police: Non-life-threatening injuries in Bridgeport stabbing

A female victim suffered a hand injury in a stabbing around 9 p.m. Sunday, police said. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

‘It’s our time’: Women of color around Connecticut celebrate the significance of Kamala Harris’s historic VP win

Women of color across Connecticut are rejoicing Saturday in the historic election of Sen. Kamala Harris, a Black and South Asian woman and daughter of immigrants, as the first female vice president of the United States. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

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