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Connecticut Foodshare says the wave of federal funding cuts will impact vulnerable communities it provides food to and that it has lost a total of 1.4 million pounds of food in the most recent cuts to the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). “It’s going to be a difficult couple of months,” Jason Jakubowski, Connecticut Foodshare president and...

New Haven Public Schools is planning to merge two schools this upcoming school year. The two schools that will be merging are Wexler-Grant School and Lincoln-Bassett Community School.  NHPS Superintendent Dr. Madeline Negron said these two schools were chosen due to their proximity to one another and their declining student enrollment. “By mer...

Old Saybrook Police Chief Michael Spera has announced his plans to retire. Spera has served as the police chief for more than 15 years and has been in law enforcement for 29 years, according to a news release. “I would like to congratulate Chief Michael Spera on his retirement. There have been few more dedicated to our town’s safety, pa...

Pediatricians in our state are speaking out about the importance of vaccines. It comes as measles cases continue to spread in the U.S., though so far not in Connecticut. “We are very concerned about the current measles outbreak,” Dr. Molly Markowitz, a pediatrician, said. Markowitz said more parents have questions amid the growing number of measles...

A man has been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting that happened on Christmas Eve in New Haven. The shooting happened on Edgewood Avenue near Beers Street just after 8 p.m., according to police. The victim, later identified as 43-year-old Heriberto Cotto, of New Haven, was rushed to the hospital where he later died. According to police, C...

A person was injured after being shot during a road rage incident on Interstate 91 in Windsor Tuesday night, state police said. Troopers said they were called to I-91 South for a reported road rage incident around 4:40 p.m. The incident started on the highway and ended on Weston Street in Hartford. Responding officers determined that a person was s...

As genetic testing company 23andMe moves through bankruptcy proceedings, consumers and experts are concerned about whether users’ genetic data will be kept safe during the potential sale. “You can change your password, you can change your credit card numbers, you can dispute fraud charges. Unfortunately, you cannot change your DNA,” Aaron Rose with...

Police in Meriden are on the hunt for puppies, just weeks old that have been separated from their mother. The dog was found in a plaza near a vacant store and investigators believe she was dumped. Two teens located the dog, according to animal control, brought her home, and had their mother call police. She was surrendered to animal control,…...

Police are investigating after a person who was reported missing was found dead in an apartment in West Haven on Monday night, according to police. Police said they were called to a residence on Ocean Avenue near Jones Hill Road around 6:30 p.m. about a missing person report and welfare check. The person who contacted police about the complaint let...

State police have arrested a Groton man who is accused of driving the wrong way on Interstate 95 in Westbrook in October while he was intoxicated and causing a crash that killed another man. Just after 8 p.m. on the night of Oct. 9, state police responded to a crash between exits 66 and 65 and they found 47-year-old Mark…

Connecticut State Police have released a video that shows a woman nearly hit two vehicles while driving the wrong way on Interstate 395 in Montville over the weekend. Dispatchers received multiple 911 calls about a wrong-way driver traveling south in the northbound lanes of I-395 near exit 11 in Norwich on Saturday around 2:30 a.m. Troopers found t...

A New Haven woman who had been missing for almost six months was found dead in a wooded area in the city, according to police. Police said people who were clearing brush behind their house on Rock Creek Road found remains in a wooded area last Thursday. On Tuesday, police said they identified the person who died as Denise Leary,…

A suspicious package that briefly closed the library and municipal complex in Granby on Tuesday morning has been determined to not be a threat, according to police. Investigators said a suspicious package was found in the morning during opening procedures. The incident was investigated and the library and municipal complex were briefly closed. Poli...

This is the first time Jana El Alfy has balanced the Muslim holy month and the NCAA basketball tournament.