Bridgeport man charged with murder in daylight shooting on Spring Street, police say
Bridgeport police have charged 46-year-old Roshay Williams in the targeted killing of 37-year-old Akeem Shoucair-Grant on ...
Arundhati Roy's first memoir, 'Mother Mary Comes to Me,' to be published in September 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy's first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her ...
US will let more people take methadone at home
The new federal rules allow stable patients to take home 28 days’ worth of methadone. Colorado, New York and Massachusetts ...
Former UConn guard Nika Mühl scores first WNBA points in Seattle Storm regular-season finale
It took until the final regular-season game with the Seattle Storm to do it, but former UConn guard Nika Mühl scored the ...
Max Verstappen punished for swearing in F1 news conference
Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen was punished Friday for swearing in a news conference in which he argued against greater ...
Vouchers ease start-up stress for churches seeing demand for more Christian schools
The state has an expansive voucher program in which taxpayers help to pay tuition for all families who want to send their ...
Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims
The two main bodies involved — the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons — were created by Nepal’s government in 2015 to deal ...
Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things left unsaid. Wind phones offer a setting for the person to tell the story of ...
Half of Black gay men will be diagnosed with HIV, despite highly effective preventive treatments − why?
Black gay and bisexual men made up about 38% of the estimated 37,981 new HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2022. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 50% of these men ...
As bears in CT get ready for fall 'power-eating marathon,' officials warn of dangers
Connecticut residents need to be vigilant as bears begin their pre-hibernation “power-eating marathon,” environmental experts ...
College can be confusing for first-generation students – but it doesn’t have to be
That’s right. On average, early adulthood is more secure — in terms of career, family, health and a host of other outcomes — for college graduates. What we often miss, though, is the insecurity that ...
Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood
Common understandings of gentrification and urban development often frame these urban processes as natural, linear and even inevitable for low-income neighborhoods. The argument goes that once you see ...