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New crime data released by the state Monday morning show a small increase in murders last year in Connecticut. At the same time, the number of violent crimes and property crimes declined year over year. Over the last 10 years, the report notes that overall crime in Connecticut has fallen 30%, including a 43% reduction in violent crime and a 29% reduction in property crime.

In a new analysis of 17 Fairfield County towns’ affordable housing plans, the median community received a ranking of 2.5 out of 5, showing scattered progress for many towns and room for improvement on equity and other issues in others.

At a small church in Bridgeport, one nonprofit has helped hundreds of domestic workers collect wages that were stolen from them.

The University of Connecticut has agreed to pay former men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie $3.9 million for damage to his reputation and for his attorney's fees. That's on top of an $11 million payout awarded to Ollie earlier this year.

This week marks New Haven’s 24th annual Pride Week — and a chance to reclaim a public space that holds troubling LGBTQ+ history dating back to the 1600s.

The newly restored Greens Ledge Light off Norwalk is open for public tours, the first time in its more than 120-year history that it has welcomed paying public visitors.

In March, Hartford school administrators and recruiters made their way to Puerto Rico looking for bilingual talent to fill content areas like math, science and history.It’s part of Paso a Paso, a program to recruit bilingual teachers to fill much-needed roles in Hartford.

Representatives from the Connecticut Employees Union Independent (CEUI) say that the University of Connecticut violated their contract when it moved 20 union workers from the athletic facilities to other locations on campus and hired new custodians through a private contractor.

The survivors who were able to walk out of Sandy Hook Elementary School nearly a decade ago want to share a message of hope with the children of Uvalde, Texas: You will learn how to live with your trauma, pain and grief. And it will get better. They know what’s ahead. There’s shock, followed by numbness.

There are 95,000 housekeepers working in hospitals across the country, which is greater than the number of doctors working in hospitals. Housekeepers are among the health care workers who spend the most time with patients and their families, often talking to and forming relationships with people as they clean. But critics say financial awards fall far below what is deserved.