According to Allison Herwitt, Murphy’s chief of staff, Murphy, a Democrat, experienced numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital where it was discovered he experienced a stroke.

The final day before the election saw Gov. Ned Lamont wrapping up the campaign with stops in Ansonia and Bridgeport, where he exhorted followers to work hard right through the close of polls Tuesday.

Nineteen municipalities in Connecticut have been approved for automated traffic enforcement devices like speed and red light cameras, but not all have started using them.

Murphy was previously a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Registered Democrats outvoted their Republican and unaffiliated counterparts in early voting, casting 216,107 votes, or about 47.5% of the total. Democrats represent about 35.6 % of registered voters. Republicans, 21.5% of registered voters, cast 89,115 early votes, about 19.5% of the total.

Of the 32,011 votes cast Wednesday, registered Democrats cast 13,393. Republicans cast 7,257 and minor party and unaffiliated voters cast 11,361.

The U.S. Department of Justice has notified Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas' office and the City of New Haven that it intends to send federal election monitors to New Haven on Election Day, according to Thomas.

The department did not release the names of the staff members or the incarcerated person, citing the ongoing investigation by the Connecticut State Police.

The state also has received a total of 47,128 absentee ballots. That total includes 24,234 from Democrats, 8.637 from Republicans, 13,625 from unaffiliated voters and 632 from minor party members.

Many young Connecticut voters getting their first chance to vote for governor say they plan to cast a ballot, but few feel they have the information they need to pick a candidate, and they say the campaigns are advertising in the wrong places.

Greenwich, which has a population of just over 62,000 residents, was initially approved for the automatic traffic enforcement safety devices in July 2025 but halted use of its cameras in April 2026 after residents raised concerns.

A coalition of states has won a permanent injunction blocking the Trump administration’s implementation of some Medicaid work requirements under H.R. 1.

The project also includes the replacement of the railroad bridge over Main Street, roadway improvements to increase clearance beneath the bridge, new sidewalks, streetscape improvements, and pedestrian connections to surrounding neighborhoods.

Join us for a collaborative conference featuring experts in behavioral health and I/DD that brings together families, advocates, providers, policymakers, and community partners to strengthen supports, share solutions, and build a brighter future for individuals with I/DD and autism across Connecticut. The event will take place at 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Ave., New Haven, CT.

Inside the H.J. Bushka and Sons Lumber and Millwork, a family-owned business dating back to 1994, brothers Eric and Randy Bushka told Fazio and fellow Republicans state Rep. Seth Bronko of Naugatuck and state Senate candidate John-Paul Dorais of Beacon Falls that the cost of doing business in Connecticut was among the biggest challenges they faced.

President Donald Trump and his policies formed the focal point of the discussion at Stamford’s Ferguson Memorial Library, although Republican Michael Goldstein also brought up New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and public health administrator Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

Lamont, the two-term Democratic incumbent, pointed to his record and brought up President Donald Trump and his policies several times. Fazio, the Republican state senator from Greenwich, touted his plans, and criticized Lamont for the state’s tax rate and affordability.

Although the town firmly maintains that short-term rentals are unauthorized under current zoning, the proposed ordinance would create a process for licensing short-term rentals as a stopgap measure while litigation of two separate cases is pending.

From 2016 to 2024, GM enrolled millions of drivers in its OnStar Smart Driver program, which tracked their driving habits. GM pitched this tool as a way for drivers to improve their own driving safety and told drivers that they would not share their data with insurers without express consent, Tong said.

Connecticut’s nickel-per-nip program has sent $25 million to cities and towns since it began, including $2.56 million in the latest s six-month payout led by New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport, and Waterbury.

Nearly 32,000 more voters cast an early in-person ballot Monday, bringing the total after eight of the 14 early voting days to 231,577, according to numbers from Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas’ office.

The report, released Monday, recommended tying state Educational Cost Sharing funding levels to inflation, regionalizing school and municipal services, state-funded special education, a state-level tax on income over $1 million, and implementing tolls on the interstate highways, among other recommendations.

The first death this season occurred a month earlier compared to last year, when the first influenza death was reported the week of October 25. Since September, there have been nine COVID-19 related deaths and no RSV deaths.