Livi Stanford

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Adrian Benjamin saw her daughter’s lacerations and wounds on her face and was told her daughter fell but something did not seem right. Zoe Benjamin, 28, who has profound autism and is nonverbal, could not tell her mother what happened in the group home in Wethersfield where she lives. The home is owned by Harc of Hartford, which receives funding from the state Department of Developmental Services.

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Rishi Wolvovsky never adjusts to the wailing sirens that wake her up in the middle of the night or interrupt her in the day – warning of an impending missile and to seek safety in a bomb shelter. But the 19-year-old Glastonbury native has accepted this as the new normal in Safed, Israel, amidst the continued conflict between Iran and Israel aimed at Iran’s military and nuclear program.

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Studying her family’s history, Keonia Newton could have never imagined she was the descendant of a formerly enslaved family from Simsbury who fought in the French & Indian War, Revolutionary War and Civil War. Newton learned the revelation from genealogist and scholar John Mills, bringing a sense of importance and purpose to the Connecticut native’s life. “It is intriguing,” she told the Courant, explaining that the Jacksons are the second great-grandparents of her great-grandmother.

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State immigration advocates are warning that are ramping up in the state, creating anxiety and fear in communities. “People are taken every day in Connecticut,” said Constanza Segovia, cofounder of the Hartford Deportation Defense and organizing director for Connecticut For All Coalition. “It is happening not just in the cities but in every part of the state.

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U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s purge of a federal advisory committee tasked with developing recommendations on how to use vaccines includes members from two Connecticut universities. George Kuchel, professor of medicine and director of the UConn Center on Aging and Albert Shaw, a professor of medicine in the section of infectious diseases at Yale School of Medicine were both removed from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.