Southbound traffic was congested Tuesday morning for more than six miles between Exit 19 in Fairfield and Exit 15 in Norwalk. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Today is the CT primary. Here is what you need to know
Residents can cast their votes in person until 8 p.m. Tuesday or there’s still time to mail in an absentee ballot. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Connecticut will soon need an emergency loan to maintain unemployment benefits for hundreds of thousands of residents
Having paid out billions of dollars in benefits since the coronavirus pandemic struck in mid-March, Connecticut’s unemployment trust fund is headed for insolvency later this month or in early September, according state Labor Department officials. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
‘You’ve got to be careful:‘ Connecticut’s college towns brace for heightened coronavirus risk as campuses reopen
Officials in Mansfield, West Hartford and Windham are asking the state to reimpose stricter gathering restrictions, to avoid potential super-spreader events. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Some major employers in Connecticut plan to keep employees working from home through 2020 during coronavirus pandemic
Three major Connecticut employers – with thousands of office workers in the Hartford area — say they will keep the majority of those employees working at home at least through the end of the year, as the course of the coronavirus pandemic continues to create uncertainty around a return to the workplace. Top Featured Tags:…
Author, activist to speak at fundraiser for Bridgeport shelter
Rachel Lloyd, an activist for girls who have been sexually assaulted and trafficked, will speak at a virtual fundraiser for Bridgeport-based Center for Family Justice. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Labor Department: CT needs emergency loan to pay for unemployment
Connecticut has received an unprecedented, 750,000 applications for unemployment benefits since mid-March, and has paid out about $4.4 billion in benefits. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Metro-North: After Isaias, regular service resumes on New Haven Line
Due to continued work on damaged infrastructure after Tropical Storm Isaias, delays are possible. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Tropical Storm Isaias: Eversource chips away at outages, more than 150,000 Connecticut residents still without power on day 6
Many of those whose power was knocked out by Tropical Storm Isaias Tuesday awoke Sunday to the hum of appliances. After five days in the dark for many Connecticut residents, outages among Eversource customers were down to 158,822, the appliance reported on its website. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
The lessons of past disasters were forgotten when Tropical Storm Isaias pounded Connecticut; this time, municipal leaders want more than another investigation
After all the investigations and planning that followed the slow response of the electric companies to the October snowstorm of 2011 that left people without power for 11 days, the aftermath of Tropical Storm Isaias, which swept through the state Tuesday, shows that little has changed. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution…
‘Solitary Garden’ at Stowe Center in Hartford evokes solitary confinement cell
A ‘Solitary Garden’ art installation at Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford is built to the same dimensions of the solitary confinement cell to which Albert Woodfox was confined for 44 years. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Police: two shot in Bridgeport overnight
BRIDGEPORT — Two people were treated for gunshot wounds Saturday evening, according to city police. Authorities were called to St. Vincent’s Medical Center after one person came in with a non-life threatening wound to the leg, police said in a Tweet shortly after 9 p.m. A minute later, police said a second victim was identified.…
180k without power; lawmaker urges Eversource CEO to resign
As of Sunday morning, 168,133 Eversource customers remain without power, according to outage data provided by the company. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Everything you wanted to know about Tuesday’s primaries but were afraid to ask
The primaries for Stratford Democratic Registrar of Voters and four state races in the Bridgeport area will be something of a test run for elections in the age of COVID. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Vulnerable Connecticut residents, many still without power, hard-hit by Tropical Storm Isaias
There is nothing to stave off the fall of darkness in West Simsbury, where 76-year-old Fina Capodice has been without power for four days. The batteries in her flashlight are dead and she has no candles. Her refrigerator is out and she has no running water. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution…
Daily coronavirus updates: Connecticut reports four deaths, breaking three-day stretch with no deaths
The state’s positivity rate also ticked back up Friday, after the state reported its lowest daily rate ever on Thursday. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
State Supreme Court rules in state’s favor over expansion of absentee ballot voting in Aug. 11 primary
The state Supreme Court has deemed the state’s expansion of absentee ballot use for Tuesday’s primary constitutional in a further victory for the state against repeated challenges from a group of Republican congressional candidates. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Bridgeport police: Shots fired call leads to stolen gun arrest
A call about gunfire in Bridgeport late Thursday night led to an arrest for one city woman. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Survey: Homeless count continues to decline in CT
The number of people without a home dropped by 4 percent since last year, reaching a new record low, according to the annual Point-in-Time Count. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
NWS: Tornado touched down in Westport during Isaias
As more than 300,000 residents remained without power Friday, the NWS confirmed a tornado touched down in Westport the day of the storm. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
Tropical Storm Isaias outages appear to be dropping more than 10 percent a day as Connecticut continues to grapple with lengthy restoration, heavy damage
The federal government has approved Connecticut’s application for an emergency declaration, paving the way for money to pay for recovery efforts in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Isaias, Gov. Ned Lamont says. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
This time it isn’t toilet paper: Chainsaws, portable generators, bags of ice disappear from shelves after Tropical Storm Isaias ravages Connecticut
If you remember trying to buy paper products or hand sanitizer in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, you know what it feels like tracking down a generator, chainsaw, gasoline can or bag of ice in the wake of Tropical Storm Isaisas. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service
