Democratic voters in Bridgeport will head to the polls again on Jan. 23 in a court-ordered second mayoral primary election resulting from evidence that absentee ballots were mishandled during the first primary in September.
The state of Connecticut has agreed to pay $200,000 in order to settle a lawsuit brought by former Public Health Commissioner Renee Coleman-Mitchell, who filed a wrongful termination complaint after the governor fired her during the outset of the pandemic.
State police arrested a Connecticut correction officer last week on charges she attempted to smuggle contraband including drugs and cellular phones into MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, according to spokespeople for the police and Department of Correction.