Andrew Brown, CT Mirror

Connecticut Comptroller Sean Scanlon said his four-month investigation into the Social Equity Council — the government body that was set up to ensure the state’s new recreational marijuana industry also benefits the communities that were hit hardest by the war on drugs — found no “evidence of criminal wrongdoing.”

Connecticut’s State Elections Enforcement Commission continues to refer allegations of absentee ballot abuse in Bridgeport to state prosecutors for potential criminal charges — and the latest referral could ensnare another sitting Bridgeport city council member.

Bowden-Lewis is seeking compensatory damages, including back pay, state benefits and reimbursement for her attorney’s fees.

A new election between Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim and his Democratic opponent John Gomes was scheduled for Jan. 23 after a state Superior Court judge concluded that last year’s primary between the two men was marred by widespread ballot fraud.

A temporary election monitor was quietly appointed in Bridgeport this week, one day before a judge threw out the results of the city’s recent Democratic mayoral primary and while hundreds of people preemptively cast absentee ballots ahead of the city’s Nov. 7 general election.

State officials have taken unprecedented steps to preserve any fingerprints or DNA evidence that might remain on the roughly 2,630 absentee ballots cast in Bridgeport’s recent Democratic primary in the expectation that the material may be used in eventual criminal prosecutions.

Detectable levels of PFAS chemicals were found in portions of seven different water utilities in CT. They provide service to thousands.

West Haven’s corporation counsel has over the past three years funneled city work to his own private law firm, enabling him and his wife to represent the city in foreclosure cases and to bill up to $225 per hour for their services.

The Municipal Accountability Review Board questioned West Haven's mayor about the city's purchase of a $51,000 Ford Explorer.

Lawmakers are considering several legislative fixes to help prevent wrong-way crashes on highways as part of a larger effort this year to cut down on the number of motorists and pedestrians being killed on Connecticut roadways.