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The Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index has been released. Every three years, the report shows how people in the county are faring with education, housing, health, civic engagement, income and wealth.

Fifty years ago, the U.S. ended its military involvement in the Vietnam War. Four local Vietnam veterans shared stories of their time in the country and received special gifts in recognition of their service.

Reed dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the Knicks to their first championship, an enduring example of playing through pain.

Governor Ned Lamont earlier this week pushed for licensing free-standing birthing centers, which would operate largely independent of hospitals, and the creation of a certification pathway for doulas, among other proposals to expand maternal services in Connecticut.

The Long Island Rail Road expanded service from Grand Central Madison on Monday after capacity issues arose last week when full service to eastern Manhattan began. The long-awaited station will improve service to and from Brooklyn and Jamaica for commuters.

Polygamist Warren Jeffs is in jail in Utah awaiting a hearing on charges that he arranged plural marriages of underage girls to much older men. Jeffs is confined in a county jail at Purgatory Flats.

After six days of silence, Page Gardner, president of Women's Voices Women Vote, defended the group and its voter-registration activities in an interview with NPR. Gardner said that Women's Voices registered 26,000 North Carolinians in time to vote in the primary and that African-Americans make up 57 percent of all those registered by the group.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 15 percent of Americans do shift work. A request on NPR's Facebook page for people to share their stories of working on the night shift brought more than 2,000 responses.

The administrator of the worst-affected area, the Kalehe territory of South Kivu province, said more bodies were recovered Sunday, including many found floating in Lake Kivu.

Essential benefit requirements apply mainly to individual and small group plans. The federal requirements also affect benefits provided to people newly eligible for Medicaid coverage. Now, for instance, we know that insurers won't be allowed to can't charge consumers a copay for a screening colonoscopy, even if a polyp is removed.