Published March 06. 2021 10:25PM
NEW HAVEN (AP) The American Red Cross says it is helping 37 people in Connecticut after fires damaged their homes on Friday and Saturday. One person was injured in one of the fires and taken to a hospital, while no other injuries were reported.
A fire at an apartment building in New Haven late Friday afternoon displaced nine families, including 12 adults and seven children, fire officials said.
Early Friday afternoon, a fire at a multifamily home in East Hartford left four adults and two children in two families homeless.
A fire Friday morning in Tolland displaced four adults. Fire officials say one person was taken to a hospital and 12 rabbits died.
Published February 23. 2021 12:53AM
By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press
Connecticut high school students learning exclusively at home during the pandemic are in greater danger of failing to advance to the next grade than those who opted for a model that includes at least some in-person learning, according to a report released Monday by the nonprofit educational organization RISE.
The report found that 33% of high school students in the urban districts it studied are in danger of not progressing to the next grade, which compares to about 15% in a non-pandemic year.
The report looked at more than 12,000 students in Hartford, East Hartford, Manchester, Middletown, Norwalk, Naugatuck, Meriden and Stamford during the first 2 [1/2] months of the school year.
Published February 18. 2021 9:47PM
MERIDEN (AP) A Connecticut prosecutor s preliminary report on a police shooting of a man wanted for robbery said authorities found a gun under him after he was shot.
Meriden Officer Eric Simonson fired his gun once and wounded Kenneth Strothers, 24, shortly before 9 a.m. on Feb. 12, as police were trying to serve an arrest warrant on Strothers, New London State s Attorney Paul Narducci said in a report released Thursday.
Strothers was shot in the abdomen and continues to be treated for his injuries, said Narducci, who is investigating whether the shooting was justified.
The report does not say whether Strothers threatened police with a gun.