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Democrats in New York will face new challenges from Republicans and be drawn into interparty battles under new redistricting maps released late Friday. -
Dannel Malloy was hired in Maine in 2019 after serving as governor of Connecticut. His contract expires June 30, and trustees will be hearing from an outside firm that conducted a multi-year review of his tenure.
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The faculty senate at the University of Maine at Farmington delivered the rebuke Wednesday after the elimination of nine staff positions amid declining enrollment at the campus in the western part of the state.
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Renee Coleman-Mitchell, who was ousted on May 12, 2020, says in her a federal court filing that she was never provided severance pay or consideration for another position as promised by Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat.
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Known as familial DNA searching, the technique allows law enforcement agencies to search the state’s DNA databank for close biological relatives of people who have left traces of genetic material at a crime scene.
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Vice President Kamala Harris will be this year’s commencement speaker at the Coast Guard Academy.
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New York’s highest court on Wednesday rejected new congressional maps that had widely been seen as favoring Democrats, largely agreeing with Republican voters who argued the district boundaries were unconstitutionally gerrymandered.
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The Democrat said in a Twitter post that he got the test result Tuesday and has done contact tracing to inform people he has had contact with.
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The state of Connecticut is considering tougher restrictions on marijuana advertising, including barring ads from cross-border retail cannabis establishments such as the billboard ads that have popped up along the state’s border with Massachusetts.
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A Connecticut woman who stormed the U.S. Capitol during the January 2021 insurrection has been sentenced to five weekends in jail, 60 days of home confinement and a $2,500 fine, while her daughter will serve 90 days of home confinement.
