NEW YORK, March 10 -- Altice USA (formerly the Cablevision Systems) issued the following news release on March 9, 2022: Altice USA's Optimum today announces 13 new Optimum retail stores across the New York Tri-State area, with new stores already opened or coming soon in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Connecticut, and Long Island. These new state-of-the-art retail stores offer an interactive in-store experience where customers are invited to explore the complete line of Optimum connectivity offerings, in more PR

MORRISVILLE, North Carolina, March 9 -- Raleigh-Durham International Airport issued the following news release: Avelo Airlines will launch new nonstop flights in May from RDU to Tweed-New Haven Airport (HVN) in Connecticut, providing business and leisure travelers with affordable and convenient options for visiting the New England and New York regions. "We are excited to partner with Avelo as they become RDU's 13th airline and add a new destination to the growing list of cities we serve," said more PR

OAKLAND, California, March 11 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following statement, on March 10, 2022: * * * California Attorney General Rob Bonta released a statement today following a restorative justice hearing related to the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy. The hearing was a result of the tentative settlement reached last week between Purdue and the Sackler family and the states of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the D more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 8 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 7, 2022: Attorney General William Tong, U.S. Attorney Leonard C. Boyle, and Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General announced today that Redwood Toxicology Laboratory, Inc. has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments in which it will pay nearly $4.8 million to more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 8 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong announced an "abnormal market disruption" in gasoline prices will trigger additional consumer protections against price gouging through April 2, 2022. "Gas prices fluctuate constantly, and price changes and price increases are normal. But what we have seen this past week is not typical, and we can expect even more volatility due to the unprovoked and unco more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 10 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on March 9, 2022: Attorney General William Tong and Consumer Protection Commissioner Michelle H. Seagull announced today the filing of a $5 million stipulation judgment against Safe Home Security and its president David Roman after the Middletown-based company repeatedly failed over many years to comply with court-ordered consumer protection measures. "Families turned to Safe Home Sec more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 11 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General Tong this week, as part of a coalition of 23 attorneys general and six cities and counties, filed a motion to intervene in defense of federal greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) standards for light-duty vehicles. The transportation sector accounts for nearly one-third of all GHG emissions in the United States, and light-duty vehicles account for nearly 60% of those transp more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 10 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement: * * * Attorney General William Tong released the following statement after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain approved the $6 billion Purdue bankruptcy plan. "No settlement will ever come close to addressing the magnitude of suffering and harm caused by Purdue and the Sackler family. But in reaching this $6 billion settlement we recognized that we could not stall this process forever f more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 10 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement on March 9, 2022: * * * Attorney General William Tong today issued the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final action restoring California's waiver under the Clean Air Act for its greenhouse gas (GHG) and zero-emission vehicle programs. Attorney General Tong was part of multistate litigation during the Trump Administration defending California's longstand more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 10 -- Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued the following news release on March 9, 2022: The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) and the City of Meriden today celebrated the successful launch of "Making Meriden Green," a first-of-its-kind municipal food scrap co-collection pilot program that the city kicked off last month. For the pilot program, approximately 1,000 Meriden households were provided with more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 9 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 8, 2022: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that his administration has received notification from the U.S. Children's Bureau that the Family First Prevention Plan submitted by the State of Connecticut has been approved. The plan was written in response to the Family First Prevention Services Act signed into law as part of the U.S. Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. This legislation repres more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 1 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is proposing legislation that will establish a grant program to assist public school districts in paying for heating, ventilation, and cooling (HVAC) and other indoor air quality improvements to school buildings. He explained that the program is needed to help schools make necessary infrastructure upgrades in response to the health impacts of the COVID more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 3 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he has introduced a legislative proposal that will help alleviate the risks associated with lead poisoning among children and align Connecticut's standards with federal guidance. "For too long, Connecticut has failed to address the problem of lead poisoning in our children, a problem that impacts most deeply minority families and disadvantaged communitie more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 10 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: As the State of Connecticut continues taking actions in response to the global spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Governor Ned Lamont provided the following updates as of 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, 2022: Data updates on testing in Connecticut The following is a summary of the day-to-day newly reported data on cases and tests in Connecticut. It is important to note that these newly  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 8 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on March 7, 2022: * * * Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement regarding today's vote in the Connecticut General Assembly's Education Committee approving the settlement agreement that his administration recently negotiated in the Sheff v. O'Neill case: "This settlement we reached will end more than 30 years of litigation and court oversight, ensuring that in the years ahead thousands more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 1 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement: * * * Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement in response to the State of the Union address delivered tonight by President Joe Biden: "In his first State of the Union since taking office, President Biden marked considerable progress in building a better America. The Biden-Harris administration implemented a vaccine program that has inoculated more than 200 million Americans and, toda more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 7 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 4, 2022: Governor Ned Lamont today said that an evaluation released on the impact of Connecticut's 2021 Summer Enrichment Grants show that the initiative successfully helped reengage thousands of students in time for the return of in-person learning in the fall, following the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic during the previous school year. The grant program was created in Ap more PR

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The Democratic Governors Association issued the following news: While Connecticut GOP candidate for governor Bob Stefanowski has bragged about his business record, new reporting is detailing how "Stefanowski's business career included managing investments 'associated with killings, forced evictions, violent protests, and severe environmental pollution.'" In his first failed campaign for governor, Stefanowski sent mailers bragging that he managed "$500 billion in assets" more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, March 8 (TNSPol) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Eastern Connecticut State University's political science honor society, Pi Sigma Alpha, has been awarded a Chapter Activity Grant by the national honor society to help facilitate a debate between Connecticut State House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora and Majority Leader Jason Rojoas. Eastern's chapter aims to hold the debate prior to the November 2022 elections. "We believe that stu more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, Feb. 28 (TNSOps) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following statement by President Elsa Nunez: * * * I ask all members of the Eastern Connecticut State University family to join me in lifting up the people of Ukraine as they continue to confront a foreign invasion on their sovereign soil. Please keep the men, women, and children of Ukraine in your thoughts and prayers in the coming days. I also ask all Eastern students, faculty, and staff to offer su more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, March 10 (TNSRes) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Eastern Connecticut State University psychology student Noelle Ciccarelli presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) convention on Feb. 18. Ciccarelli's project was titled "Similarities and Differences in Mate Preferences among Parents and their Daughters," and focused on the ratings that daughters gave when seeking a male mate, compared to their parents' rat more PR

WILLIMANTIC, Connecticut, March 8 (TNSBook) -- Eastern Connecticut State University issued the following news: Christopher Vasillopulos, political science professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, recently authored a new book titled "Interpreting Euripides's Medea from Aristotelian and Nietzschean Perspectives," published by Edwin Mellen Press. Vasillopulos' book concerns the ancient Greek tragedy "Medea," which centers on the actions of a vengeful wife, Medea, after her husband leave more PR

MANCHESTER, Connecticut, March 8 (TNSOps) -- Manchester Community College Foundation issued the following news release: MCC Foundation is the recent recipient of two endowment-establishing gifts to help Manchester Community College students achieve their educational goals. Peter and Susan Klock, of Glastonbury, established the Robert H. Fenn Endowed Scholarship Fund. Fenn was a founder of the college as well as MCC Foundation. He also served in the capacity of, among other roles, chair of the  more PR

MANCHESTER, Connecticut, March 9 (TNSAcc) -- Manchester Community College issued the following news release: The public is invited to comment on the 2022 institutional self-study prepared by Manchester Community College as part of its reaccreditation process. Every 10 years, accredited institutions must undergo a self-study to demonstrate that they meet standards established by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). MCC will undergo a comprehensive evaluation visit from April  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 9 (TNSOps) -- Trinity College issued the following news on March 8, 2022: Members of the Trinity College community recently attended the Connecticut Forum's latest program, "The Fight for Racial Justice: Understanding and Dismantling Systematic Racism," hosted by Connecticut Humanities. The panelists for the February 25 talk at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Hartford included: Julian Castro, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 11 (TNSconf) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Craig Whitlock, author of The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War, will visit Trinity College on April 5 to deliver the annual McGill Distinguished Lecture in International Studies. Whitlock's lecture, titled "Devoid of a Fundamental Understanding of Afghanistan," will take place in McCook Auditorium at 4:30 p.m., followed by a reception and book signing in Hamlin Hall. An investigative reporter more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 8 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: * * * The increased spread of human-induced diseases to wildlife poses a growing challenge for ecosystem conservation. * * * A Yale School of the Environment-led study that investigated the impacts of a mange outbreak that killed vicunas in a protected area in the Argentine Andes found that it had unique effects on the ecology of the region. The study published in Ecology Letters is unique in  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 8 (TNSRep) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: The most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of experts convened by the United Nations, gives a stark analysis of the effects of climate change globally. The report -- written by 270 researchers from 67 countries and approved by 195 governments -- warns that dangerous and widespread disruption is already happening with an increase of threats from wildfires, heat  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 10 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news on March 9, 2022: As a graduate student studying molecular cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic/Case Western Reserve University, John Hwa, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine), found himself in an environment where many labs were studying platelets, but chose instead to study adrenergic receptors that regulate blood pressure. At the time, the significance of these small blood cells w more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 12 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Asthma disproportionately burdens people of color. In comparison to white patients, Black and Hispanic/Latino individuals visit the emergency room for asthma at higher rates, are hospitalized more often, and experience double the mortality rate. However, the medical community often fails to effectively represent these groups in clinical trials. Now, a clinical trial spanning across 19 sites througho more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 11 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news on March 10, 2022: Yale scientists have identified a way to "supercharge" tumor-attacking T cells, a finding that may not only improve the effectiveness of a promising type of cell-based cancer immunotherapy but also expand the number of cancers it can treat. Their findings are published March 10 in the journal Cell Metabolism. The discovery can advance CAR-T cell therapy, which harnesses the immune respons more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 9 (TNSOps) -- Yale University School of Public Health issued the following news on March 7, 2022: When COVID-19 arrived in Connecticut, Leslie Asanga was a student at Yale School of Public Health while working part-time as a pharmacist in a retail chain in New Haven. Although people needed their prescriptions, getting medications became a momentous task as city and state lockdowns expanded. "I was concerned in particular for seniors and those with disabilities who  more PR