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1 week ago | 
courant.com | Laura Tillman |Emilia Otte
Leora Matison was parking her car on Monday in Danbury when she noticed a man in front of her wearing an armored vest. The man, she said, was approaching the car parked behind her. Matison, a member of Greater Danbury Unites for Immigrants, began recording the incident with her phone. The video shows Matison repeatedly asking the man, whose shirt read “U.S. Marshal,” if he had a warrant, and to show her his badge number. The man does not respond, except to tell her to step back.
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1 week ago | 
ctmirror.org | Laura Tillman |Emilia Otte
Leora Matison was parking her car on Monday in Danbury when she noticed a man in front of her wearing an armored vest. The man, she said, was approaching the car parked behind her. Matison, a member of Greater Danbury Unites for Immigrants, began recording the incident with her phone. The video shows Matison repeatedly asking the man, whose shirt read “U.S. Marshal,” if he had a warrant, and to show her his badge number. The man does not respond, except to tell her to step back.
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1 week ago | 
courant.com | Laura Tillman
Emma McKeever and her mom, Pamela, often do artistic projects together. Emma likes to make digital drawings inspired by her favorite songs, and Pamela helps her turn those illustrations into notecards. Sometimes they make floral arrangements that incorporate vegetables: Emma might put carrots in a vase alongside flowers or sculpt a cabbage into a vessel for irises and tulips.
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1 week ago | 
autism.einnews.com | Laura Tillman
Editor’s note: We now offer an audio version of our Sunday features. To access, click on the player above. Emma McKeever and her mom, Pamela, often do artistic projects together. Emma likes to make digital drawings inspired by her favorite songs, and Pamela helps her turn those illustrations into notecards. Sometimes they make floral arrangements that incorporate vegetables: Emma might put carrots in a vase alongside flowers or sculpt a cabbage into a vessel for irises and tulips.
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1 week ago | 
ctmirror.org | Laura Tillman |P.R. Lockhart
Thousands of people braved a light rain and gathered outside the state Capitol in Hartford to protest President Donald Trump’s policies as part of a nationwide “No Kings” rally. It was one of 33 rallies scheduled across Connecticut on Saturday and thousands across the country.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Laura Tillman
Thirty-three rallies are scheduled across Connecticut on Saturday from Stamford to Dayville, part of a nationwide ‘No Kings’ day of protest against the Trump administration. Rallies are planned to take place in every U.S. state and more than a dozen countries. The No Kings protest comes after an explosive week of confrontations among protesters and the National Guard in Los Angeles, sparked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests at a worksite on June 6.
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2 weeks ago | 
courant.com | Laura Tillman
A 13-year-old girl told a crowd of protesters on Wednesday about her mother, a woman who New Haven officials say was detained early this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Frank Street in front of her children. “We need our mom. I’m only 13 — I’m not going to be able to handle this all alone,” Monse, who declined to provide her last name, told the crowd. “You’re not just doing this to my family, you’re hurting other immigrant families who need their parents back home.
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2 weeks ago | 
norwichbulletin.com | Laura Tillman
The results of the 2025 Kids Count report are in and Connecticut has maintained eighth place in the nation for the second year in a row. The state earned high marks in two of the general areas analyzed in the report — education and health. But its economic well-being and family and community data pushed Connecticut’s overall ranking lower. The annual report by the Baltimore-based nonprofit Annie E.
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3 weeks ago | 
courant.com | Laura Tillman
Some lawmakers’ attempts to pass two bills spurred by a scandal sparked by alleged child sex abuse at a town-run camp in Bethany came to an end this week when the legislative session came to a close. Senate Bill 6, which would have required camps operated by towns and cities across Connecticut to be regulated by the state, had received support in the Senate, but efforts to move that forward came to an unceremonious end when the House failed to take it up on the last day of the session.
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3 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Laura Tillman
Some lawmakers’ attempts to pass two bills spurred by a child sex abuse scandal at a town-run camp in Bethany came to an end at midnight on Wednesday when the legislative session came to a close. Senate Bill 6, which would have required camps operated by towns and cities across Connecticut to be regulated by the state, had received support in the Senate, but efforts to move that forward came to an unceremonious end when the House failed to take it up on the last day of the session.
