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As the holiday weekend comes to an end, state parks are filling up with visitors, closing parking lots to more vehicles. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Despite an uptick in individual contributions aided by the surging stock market, Connecticut nonprofit leaders say huge losses in fee-for-service revenue during the coronavirus pandemic have led to reductions in staffing, loss of access for needy residents and — in some cases — programs shutting down entirely. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release…

High school football players, coaches and parents from around the state gathered outside the West Hartford town hall on Sunday to protest the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s decision to cancel full-contact football games this fall. Their message was a resounding “let us play.” Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

While coronavirus pandemic restrictions have kept untold families apart this year, Jane Anderson Holmes could not wait another day after 40 years of searching for her biological siblings. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A Bridgeport man suffered life-threatening injuries after he was hit by a vehicle while crossing Noble Avenue Sunday night, a city official said. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A Bridgeport man faces burglary-related charges after he was seen breaking in to a commercial property Sunday night, officials said. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Bridgeport police charged a city man with robbery- and assault-related offenses on Sunday. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The number of on-campus students with coronavirus has decreased from 71 to 50, according to the university. It said a there were 99 cumulative cases among students living on the Storrs campus. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A New York man has been arrested, officials say, after allegedly striking a police officer with his vehicle and leading police on a car chase. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

April Capone, the former mayor of East Haven running for a four-town state Senate seat, suffered a broken bone and 10 stitches in her hand from a dog attack. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Resistance to COVID-19 vaccination differed along racial and socioeconomic lines, with Black and low-income respondents significantly less inclined to vaccinate themselves than whites, Latinos and those with higher incomes. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

More than a quarter of Connecticut households lived in financial precarity in 2018, according to a new report, but that figure has likely soared this year as the coronavirus pandemic has forced layoffs and wage reductions for many workers, local leaders said last week. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

As Connecticut students head back to school, public health officials say it is more important than ever for residents to get the flu shot. With educators and parents closely monitoring students for sore throats, fevers and coughs, flu symptoms could easily be mistaken for signs of COVID-19, leading to a “difficult dilemma” for schools as…

School data show 106 positive or suspected cases at the university. Of these, 71 are campus residents and 35 are people living off campus. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

As of Saturday afternoon, State Police said they have issued 120 tickets for hazardous moving violations and 45 for speeding. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

At 11:33 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden was the first park to close. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Storytellers Cottage in Simsbury has closed its physical location as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and is going entirely online. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Despite the cancellation of most 2020 events, nature’s attraction are on schedule. Due to the summer’s drought, forecasters are predicting an early start to the fall foliage season this year. A projection for warmer-than-usual temperatures for the early part of autumn also suggests it could be a relatively long foliage season, they say. Top Featured…

Connecticut’s COVID-19 metrics improved this week after a rise in cases last week causes some concern about a possible increase in transmission. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The city is partially closing some downtown streets on Labor Day to allow for more outdoor dining. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

“It’s time for a change for Seymour and for me,” he said in an interview Friday afternoon. “Someone stepping forward with new ideas is always good for a municipality.” Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The school said the decision was made after 10 cases of the coronavirus were found among 2,500 students living off-campus in Bridgeport. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service