HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 16 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong today moved for state custody of 99 neglected sheep and one goose seized from a Beacon Falls farm in February. Following a complaint from a concerned neighbor, state animal control officers last month visited the five-acre property at 392 Lopus Road in Beacon Falls owned by David Chesnutis. The property was highly unsanitary, strewn with trash, empty bee more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 14 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong praised a unanimous vote in the General Law Committee to advance reforms proposed by the Office of the Attorney General to address unfair, anti-consumer ticketing practices in the live event industry. "Disclosure of fees from the start of the ticket purchase process will save consumers valuable time selecting the perfect seat for a reasonable price only  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 16 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong released the following statement praising a final decision by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) rejecting Eversource-owned Aquarion's $36 million rate hike. The requested rate hike would have increased water rates by more than 30 percent over three years for 207,000 Aquarion customers across 56 cities and towns in Connecticut. A draft deci more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 14 -- The Connecticut Department of Education issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont and Education Commissioner Charlene M. Russell-Tucker today announced that the Connecticut State Department of Education is releasing $11.5 million from its share of federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to continue its highly successful Summer Enrichment Program in summer 2023 and summer 2024. The governor proposed the creation of the program in 2021 in an effort  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 14 (TNSbook) -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee issued the following news release on March 13, 2023: Ahead of Connecticut hedge fund executive and failed candidate David McCormick's attempt to rewrite his well-documented record of outsourcing, ties to China, Wall Street and McConnell with a new book, today the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is releasing a new book featuring reporting on McCormick's real record: "Chameleon:" David McCormick's Real Record. more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 16 -- Duane Morris, a law firm, issued the following news release: Duane Morris LLP partner Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. has been named to Crain's Chicago Business Notable Litigators & Trial Attorneys List. The list recognizes trial attorneys in the Chicago metro area for their litigation successes over the past year and their ongoing commitment to their clients and communities. Some of Maatman's 2022 accomplishments highlighted include defeating a COVID-19 tuitio more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 16 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * In New Gartner Book, "When Machines Become Customers" Experts Identify the Three Phases of Machine Customers' Evolution * * * Machine customers represent one of the biggest new growth opportunities of the decade, and business leaders must act now to create a path to entry to a business megatrend that will eventually be more significant than th more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 17 (TNSres) -- Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, issued the following news release: * * * Assessing Risk and Viability of Current Funding Sources Among Top Actions for CFOs * * * More than one in four CFOs said they plan to diversify their deposits across more banks after recent high-profile bank failures, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner polled over 250 CFOs and senior finance leaders on March 13, 2023 on their responses to rece more PR

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 15 (TNSper) -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release on March 14, 2023: GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that its Board of Directors has named two new members: Darren McDew, retired General, U.S. Air Force, and former Commander of the U.S. Transportation Command, and Jessica Uhl, former Chief Financial Officer of Shell plc. GE Chairman and CEO and GE Aerospace CEO H. Lawrence Culp more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 16 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that his administration has taken measures to further expand access to affordable health insurance for personal care attendants (PCAs), who provide valuable services and support to more than 7,000 of Connecticut's Medicaid consumers so they can remain in their homes and communities. The Connecticut Personal Care Attendant Workforce Council  more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 15 (TNSres) -- Greenwich Associates, a division of CRISIL, issued the following news release on March 14, 2023: Almost half of institutional asset managers in a recent Coalition Greenwich study are using alternative data sets as part of their investment process. Alternative data or 'alt data' are new, unique data sources that add valuable, explanatory power to both quantitative and fundamental investment models. Today, alt data is now less alternative as adoption i more PR

STAMFORD, Connecticut, March 15 -- Greenwich Associates, a division of CRISIL, issued the following news release on March 14, 2023: As the new year unfolds, institutional investors and asset managers will have to contend with a host of challenges and changes in a market that is evolving rapidly. In a report released today, Coalition Greenwich examines some of the biggest trends to impact institutional asset management in the year ahead. Among the trends set to influence the industry in 2023 ar more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 17 (TNSjou) -- Trinity College issued the following news: Public libraries offer an important opportunity to immigrants to be meaningful contributors of community life, according to a new Trinity College study. While much research has investigated how public and private organizations meet the needs of immigrant populations, few studies have demonstrated how immigrants meet the needs of organizations, said author Laura H. Delgado, assistant professor of urban studie more PR

HAMDEN, Connecticut, March 16 (TNSres) -- Quinnipiac University Poll has issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: * * * Nearly Half Of Americans Would Support A Ban On Tiktok * * * In an early look at the 2024 Republican presidential primary, 46 percent of Republican and Republican leaning voters support former President Donald Trump, who has declared his candidacy, and 32 percent support Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is seen as a potential candidate, according to a Quinnipi more PR

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 14 -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release on March 13, 2023: GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that Taiwan Power Company (TPC)'s Tung Hsiao Power Plant in Miaoli County, Taiwan has safely and successfully started grid-connected trial runs in January 2023 using six GE LM2500XPRESS aeroderivative gas turbines. The project was installed within 10 months following the start of constru more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 15 (TNSfund) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news: The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI) of The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment will be expanding its reach in capacity development, accelerating on-the-ground results for sustainable land use, continuing efforts to promote open access to resources, and sharing evidence about its experiences to date with the help of a $3 million grant from Arcadia, a charitabl more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 15 (TNSres) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: The American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Scientific Session included a late-breaking clinical trial on the safety of vigorous exercise for individuals with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). On Monday, March 6 at 11:00 a.m. CT, Rachel Lampert, MD, Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), presented the results of the Lifestyle and Exercise in HM (LIVE-HCM). For this study, Lamper more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 15 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: John K. Forrest MD, associate professor of medicine and director of the Interventional Cardiology and Structural Heart Disease programs at Yale School of Medicine, presented the three-year results from the Evolut Low-Risk Trial on March 5 at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Scientific Session. Forrest is the national co-principal investigator of the Evolut Low-Risk Trial and lead autho more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 17 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * CPAP machines treat sleep apnea, but many patients don't use them as directed. A new study finds "morning people" use theirs more during the night than others. * * * Most people with obstructive sleep apnea -- a condition in which normal breathing is regularly interrupted during sleep -- are prescribed a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine as treatment. Yet many people do not use t more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 18 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Yale researchers uncovered a novel mechanism by which "good" bacteria colonize the gut. The finding could help spur the development of new probiotic therapies. * * * The microbes that inhabit the gut are critical for human health, and understanding the factors that encourage the growth of beneficial bacterial species - known as "good" bacteria - in the gut may enable medical interventions that promo more PR