Connecticut has announced its back-to-school guidance to keep staff and students safe from COVID-19. United Illuminating requests a rate hike, jury selection for Alex Jones’s defamation trial began today, and a new poll reveals independent voters in New York are split over the candidates for governor.
Back-to-school guidance
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