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3 days ago | 
ctmirror.org | Eddy Martinez |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Four international students living in Connecticut are suing the federal government after learning their student visas are now in jeopardy. In a complaint filed last week, the students accused officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of unlawfully terminating their student status, stripping them of their ability to pursue their studies and maintain employment in the United States.
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1 week ago | 
ctmirror.org | Abigail Brone |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Hartford resident Mattie Bell sits in a brown recliner in the living room of her first-floor apartment in Hartford’s north end. The room is dim, with the shades drawn, and the faint scent of cigarette smoke lingers. She is surrounded by pictures of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, while watching the Home Shopping Network on TV and listening to her two rescue cockatiels, Pretty Girl and Charlie, chirp.
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1 week ago | 
ctmirror.org | Sujata Srinivasan |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
A series of unannounced inspections in 2024 by state health inspectors reveal a nurse staffing crisis at Waterbury Hospital. The findings are the latest in a string of problems at hospitals owned by private-equity funded Prospect Medical Holdings. Currently, Waterbury Hospital, Manchester Memorial Hospital and Rockville General Hospital all face an uncertain future following the apparent collapse of a purchase deal with Yale New Haven Health.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Sujata Srinivasan |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
A massive deal to wipe out $30 billion in medical debt for an estimated 20 million Americans is providing some relief in Connecticut. New-York based Undue Medical Debt recently announced it eliminated $219 million in medical debt in Connecticut as part of a deal with Pendrick Capital Partners, a third-party debt buyer. The debt was owed by people living at or below 400% of the federal poverty level or for whom medical debt was 5% or more of their annual income.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Patrick Skahill |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Avelo Airlines, an airline with a hub at Tweed New Haven Airport, confirmed Monday it plans to work with the federal government to run deportation flights out of Mesa, Arizona. The airline says it will run a long-term charter program for the Department of Homeland Security with “domestic and international trips to support DHS’s deportation efforts,” according to an April 2025 job posting.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Kelsey Rollinson |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
A deadly police shooting in Bridgeport has been deemed a homicide, according to the preliminary status report released Friday by the Office of the Inspector General. The report says the use of deadly force by Bridgeport police officer, Yoon Heo, caused the death of 39-year-old Dyshan Best. Bridgeport Police Chief, Roderick Porter, announced Friday that Heo is now on administrative leave.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Chris Polansky |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Hundreds of demonstrations against the Trump administration are planned across the country this Saturday, including some in towns around Connecticut. The Hands Off! National Day of Action is meant to show opposition to “the Trump-Musk billionaire takeover and the Republican assault on our freedoms and communities.”Jim Chapdelaine, founder of Indivisible CT, is helping to organize Saturday’s rally at the Connecticut state Capitol in Hartford. He says the movement is gaining steam at a rapid pace.
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3 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Eddy Martinez |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Sen. Chris Murphy said Democrats would most likely need to start planning for mass demonstrations in order to oppose President Donald Trump. Murphy made the remarks during a town hall at Westhill High School in Stamford on Friday. “I think the threat to our democracy is real,” Murphy said. “It is acute.
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4 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Chris Polansky |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Connecticut’s top election official pushed back Wednesday on a White House executive order seeking to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas called the order “another unlawful and unconstitutional overreach into our electoral processes.”“It sounds easy: just produce your birth certificate or your passport in order to vote,” Thomas said.
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4 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Daniela Doncel |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Women lawmakers in Connecticut wore red to the legislative office building Tuesday morning to show that women are still “in the red” when it comes to the wages they’re owed. March 25 marks how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. State Representative Kate Farrar of West Hartford and Newington is raising awareness about the gender pay gap in Connecticut.
