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Conditions are improving across Connecticut after the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped torrential rain over a handful of hours Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Only parts of Eastern Connecticut remain under a flood watch. But the damage has been done.

The results are in from the 2022 primary election in Connecticut, and at least one race delivered a surprise.

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill said Tuesday she is resigning on June 30th, six months before the end of her third term and at a critical time for election officials, to spend more time with her ailing husband.

Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including last month’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson that eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, have curtailed federal authority on issues from women’s health to environmental protection and vaccine requirements. State policies on those and other issues could soon vary widely around the country, turning “social capital issues” into bargaining chips for each state in their attempts to woo businesses and create economic opportunities for their residents.

Time is almost up for Connecticut students ages 12 to 15 to get fully vaccinated before school starts. Vast disparities of student vaccinations exist...

An assistant principal in Greenwich is shown on a hidden videotape to have possible hiring bias against teachers who are Catholic and have conservative views.

Kristen Record, a physics teacher at Bunnell High School in Stratford, says a lot of her students are bailing on school.“I sometimes will go through an…

The town of Uvalde, Texas, is mourning, as some parents await identification of slain students and some post memorials in social media.

Until recent escalating attacks on the front runner, Connecticut’s race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate had been oddly listless, waged by three candidates whose daily campaign schedules are not public. A televised debate Tuesday night will provide the first and only opportunity for a broad audience to see Themis Klarides, the GOP’s socially moderate convention choice, engage two Trump loyalists, Leora Levy and Peter Lumaj.

In July, New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker wrote an op-ed in which he suggests penalizing Connecticut towns that fail to meet the threshold of making 10% of…