Kay Perkins

Connecticut’s first reported case of card skimming — tampering with a card reader to rig it to steal customers’ EBT food benefits card information — was back in May, according to the Department of Social Services. Since then, around 30 cases have been reported to the state.

Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday that the state will begin issuing COVID-19 relief grant money to eligible businesses in the hospitality industry this week. The state is giving out a total of $30 million to over 1,700 businesses that reported a drop of at least 15% (but no more than 95%) in revenue in 2021 compared to 2019. Some of the money is coming from the federal American Rescue Plan.

Connecticut opened monkeypox testing and vaccination centers this week.

With school starting in a few weeks, the state has issued its official back-to-school COVID-19 safety guidance focused on testing and vaccination.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) was one of several officials calling for a more robust federal response to the monkeypox outbreak at a news conference Monday.

Officials hope state funding will bring a much-needed boost to a part of Hartford that’s suffered blight.

A boat accident near Portland, Conn., on Sunday that left one person dead is the sixth boating fatality in the state this year. The annual average number of boating fatalities in Connecticut is about six people, according to statistics from the U.S. Coast Guard. With the 2022 boating season only halfway through, the state is on track to have slightly more boating fatalities than the yearly average.

A boat accident on Sunday on the Connecticut River near Portland left one person dead and injured seven others.

Hundreds of marchers gathered in support of Randy Cox, a man paralyzed in the back of a New Haven police van, hours after the family said they want civil rights charges filed against the officers involved in the incident.

The family of an 11-year-old Black boy who was pushed off his bicycle by a white man in Deep River last week is calling for the man to be charged with a hate crime.