HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 19 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut issued the following statement Executive Director David McGuire: Hartford State's Attorney Gail Hardy released a report determining that her office would not pursue charges against Wethersfield police employee Layau Eulizier for killing 18-year-old Anthony Jose "Chulo" Vega Cruz on April 20, 2019. "Once again, a Connecticut prosecutor has decided not to pursue justice for a young man of color who was killed by  more

WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 21 -- The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators issued the following statement: By John Bernhards, Executive Director On December 31 of last year, China alerted the World Health Organization (WHO) of several, severe cases of an unusual pneumonia originating in Wuhan, a port city of 11 million people. Soon identified as a novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the illness spread quickly through areas of China and then globally within the spa  more

BETHEL, Connecticut, March 20 -- The Journal of Vibration and Control, a peer-reviewed journal of analytical, computational and experimental studies of vibration phenomena and their control from the Society of Experimental Mechanics, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2020 edition: * An intelligent fault diagnosis method of rolling bearings based on Welch power spectrum transformation with radial basis function neural network * Analytical analysis for the design of   more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 18 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: * * * - National Leader in Early Childhood Education Providing Learning Tools, Resources for Communities, Schools, Parents and Families * * * As nearly 40 out of America's 50 states have shuttered schools because of coronavirus concerns, Save the Children is working to provide free educational tools and resources to communities, schools, parents and caregivers to help children continue learning at home.   more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 16 -- Save the Children issued the following news release on March 15: At least 217 schools were damaged or abandoned due to fighting during three months of bombardment in northwest Syria, new figures have revealed. This rate represents more than two schools lost to the conflict each day from December 2019 to March 2020. A year of conflict in the area has amounted to an intensive attack on the education and the futures of one and a half million children, says Save  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, March 17 -- Save the Children issued the following news release: * * * - Initiative to Benefit Save the Children, Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry Campaign * * * With more than 65 percent of schools closed across America due to the coronavirus outbreak, actors Jennifer Garner and Amy Adams are launching #SAVEWITHSTORIES to benefit Save the Children and Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign to help make sure kids can learn and get the nutrition they need while   more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, March 19 -- The Society of Professional Journalists issued the following news: Each year during Sunshine Week, the Society of Professional Journalists presents government institutions or agencies with the Black Hole Award for outright contempt of the public's right to know. SPJ's Freedom of Information Committee has chosen the Connecticut State Police as this year's award winner for its routine violations of Connecticut's Freedom of Information Act. "At time when too man  more