COVID declines at UConn’s Storrs Campus

As of Monday, the school reported 23 active cases among students living on campus, both probable and confirmed positive— none of them new from the day before. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

As COVID cases surge in eastern CT, some hospitals ban visitors

As eastern Connecticut experiences its biggest COVID surge of the pandemic, hospitals there are banning visitors while officials at other facilities are monitoring the outbreak. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Two top appointees in Bridgeport plead guilty to rigging process to hire new police chief

Former police Chief Armando J. Perez and city personnel director David J. Dunn pleaded guilty to reduced charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and lying to FBI agents just weeks after their arrest and the disclosure that agents had photographs, voice recordings and electronic email and text messages documenting a conspiracy that lasted months. Top…

Regal Cinemas closing all its U.S. theaters, including four in Connecticut

Regal Cinemas has temporarily closed all its U.S. theaters, including four cinemas (constituting over 40 separate screens) in Connecticut. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Waterbury police chief, mayoral aide test positive for coronavirus amid uptick of cases in the city

Waterbury’s police chief and an advisor to the city’s mayor have tested positive for the new coronavirus, part of an uptick in COVID-19 cases within the city. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Perez, Dunn due in court to plead guilty to conspiring over Bridgeport police chief search

Former Police Chief Armando Perez and Personnel Director David Dunn are due in court to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and making false statements. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Four Regal, Cineworld movie theaters could close in CT

Regal Cinemas theaters in Branford, Waterbury, Pawcatuk and Waterford could be closed after their parent company announced it plans to suspend operations this week. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

State trooper in Southington arrested on assault, risk of injury to child charges

A state trooper was arrested in Southington on Saturday and charged with assault, risk of injury to a minor, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Decolonizing education: My Reflection Matters supports Connecticut home-schoolers in raising ‘free people’ outside the system

My Reflection Matters is an initiative by Chemay Morales-James of Watertown, to help parents with “liberation work,” in other words, how to home-school their black and brown children in ways that affirm them personally and racially, and un-educate them from the way white-dominated education has taught them. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release…

Armed Black protestors march in Hartford’s North End to advocate for Black gun ownership

A group of armed Black and brown gun owners marched on Albany Avenue in Hartford on Saturday morning, to assert their right to bear arms to protect their communities and their families in a society that devalues Black lives and persecutes Black people who legally own guns. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release…

Ellington barn burns down, all people and horses escape injury

A morning fire in Ellington on Friday destroyed a barn at a riding school, but all 35 horses in the barn got out safely, as well as a man in an upstairs apartment at the time the fire broke out. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Car fire damages Stratford garage

A car fire that spread to a detached garage was extinguished by firefighters shortly after midnight Sunday. There was minimal damage to the garage. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

CT lawmaker asks chief state’s attorney to investigate death outside Bridgeport club

State Sen. Marilyn Moore believes Nayir Nixon’s family deserves an independent, non-biased investigation into his death outside the Keystone social club. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

DEEP: State parks with a hike and a view closed after reaching pandemic capacity

Saturday’s sunny skies and temperatures in the pleasant 60s brought crowds to Connecticut’s state parks — especially those with prime views of autumn’s colorful splendor. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Pandemic’s surplus food meets families in need: About 1,700 people receive groceries at Lake Compounce distribution

Bristol held its biggest Farmers to Families food giveaway since the coronavirus pandemic started, and drew more than 1,700 eager people. The mile-long traffic backup Friday afternoon was as much as Lake Compounce gets on an Independence Day weekend. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Shuttered downtown Hartford hotel reopens as furnished apartments with shorter-term lease niche

The former Homewood Suites by Hilton in downtown Hartford has quietly morphed into furnished apartments, Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Daily coronavirus updates: Connecticut’s hospitalizations tick up again; Positive test rate dips, but still well above 1%

Connecticut now has 110 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, which is the highest number of hospitalizations recorded since late June. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

NWS: Weekend looking good for fall foliage fans

It might be the perfect time to take a hike, go apple picking or find that perfect pumpkin. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Cops: One dead, 1 wounded in shooting at Bridgeport barbershop

The Friday night shooting at the Quick Stop Barber Shop on Pequonnock Street was Bridgeport’s 19th homicide this year. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Authorities to release ATV in alleged Manfredonia killing

The former UConn student charged with killing two people before leading police on a multi-state manhunt made a brief appearance in state Superior Court in Vernon on Friday. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Where is COVID-19 spreading in Connecticut? What’s driving the rise in cases? Here’s what to know about the state’s coronavirus uptick

After months of low COVID-19 numbers, Connecticut has seen a conspicuous uptick in cases, positivity rate and hospitalizations. Where is the spread occurring? What’s causing it? Who is getting infected? Here’s what to know. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Anti-texting campaign aims to stop Connecticut distracted driving deaths

There was a 50% increase in fatal distracted driving crashes from 2018-2019 in Connecticut, the state’s transportation agency says, and police want to stop the deadly trend. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

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