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Cinemark Theater cineplex in Manchester, is reopening on July 31. The chain’s theaters have been closed since mid-March as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Mecha Noodle Bar’s West Hartford location is now open at 975 Farmington Avenue, becoming the Southeast Asian restaurant’s first location in Hartford County Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

One by one, colleges in Connecticut have announced extensive COVID-19 testing as part of larger reopening strategies. But as outbreaks spread nationwide and testing programs elsewhere show cracks, keeping students safe through testing may prove easier said than done. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The state has set aside $30 million for the widespread testing of nursing home employees. But its contributions will end on Aug. 31. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Educators and community members from more than two dozen towns plan to participate in simultaneous rallies across the state. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The American Red Cross is seeking convalescent plasma donations as COVID-19 cases rise nationwide. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Election officials throughout the state are bracing for a flood of absentee ballots as distance voting — and the attendant confusion and headaches — swells during the coronavirus pandemic. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Foxwoods Resort Casino said Wednesday an employee has tested positive for COCID-19, the first at the tribal casino. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Thousands of teachers overwhelmingly agree they want hybrid in-person and distance learning plans for districts across the state this fall alongside strict hygiene, mask and social distancing rules for children, according to a survey of the largest teachers union in the state. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The northbound exit is expected to be closed until at least 10:30 a.m. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A 42-year-old Hartford man has been charged with murder after his landlord was found decapitated a day earlier. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A crash involving a pedestrian caused delays on I-95 south in Bridgeport Tuesday night. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Two historic buildings on Trinity Street near downtown Hartford’s Bushnell Park will be vacated by hundreds of state workers in the coming months and set for redevelopment. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Connecticut beaches are letting in fewer than half as many visitors as usual, while many shoreline towns are admitting just a couple dozen out-of-towners a day. As the summer goes on, some of those towns are flat-out refusing access to all non-residents. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The police union president says some department-issued pistols do not shoot straight, a dangerous defect that exposes cops and the department to “a needless tragedy.” Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Many agree that holding live classes online and hosting small group sessions is the next best option if students cannot attend school in-person. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The state Department of Transportation says it’s taking about an hour to travel 30 miles from New Haven to Route 9 in Old Saybrook. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The theft happened around 4 p.m. on June 22 at the Connecticut Post Mall, police said, Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Summer visitors to Mystic will find two new projects from Sift Bake Shop’s Adam Young: an expanded rooftop deck bar with cocktails and small plates, and a brand-new doughnut shop on West Main Street. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Mariah Cubano, 8, and her brother Tyshawn Yopp, 5, are raising money to buy children’s books with Black characters and donate them to every school in the New Britain school district. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Community Renewal Team’s Financial Literacy Institute’s intensive course in personal financial management has seldom been more relevant to contemporary economic and social concerns. Institute founder Elizabeth Horton Sheff connects the course’s goals to the current coronavirus crisis and the civil rights movement. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Isabelle Martins was charged with disorderly conduct, third-degree assault, second-degree threatening, third-degree harassment and violation of a protective order. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service