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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that documented the status of death rate health disparities (the difference in rate at which people die by cause) in the U.S. from 1999 through 2015. The report stated that the racial gap relative to age-adjusted death rates from fiscal year 1999 through 2015 had improved overall from a gap of 32.

MERIDEN >> V. Nanfito Roofing & Siding, Inc., recently received the GAF President's Club Award, which recognizes the company as one of the "elite of the elite" residential roofing contractors in the United States, according to a release.

NEW HAVEN >> Police in Connecticut say a man was dragged out of his car and beaten in an apparent case of road rage.A witness tells WTNH-TV the 53-year-old man slammed on his brakes during a green light at a New Haven intersection Tuesday to avoid hitting people crossing the street.

NEW HAVEN >> Nine Common Ground High School students received a deluge of information about jobs at the Regional Water Authority's Environmental Careers Summer Camp this week.For six years, the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority has hosted the week-long survey of jobs available with the utility company for students at the environmentally-focused charter school through a grant from The Watershed Fund.

HARTFORD >> The Freedom of Information Commission this week cut in half the civil penalty its staff had initially sought to levy against Insurance Commissioner Katharine Wade for failing to turn over documents related to a merger.The commission, which rarely imposes fines, felt Wade should face a penalty for refusing to comply with an order to turn over documents to its hearing officer for review.

The tide is turning against the Democrats in Hartford. You can feel it. We can debate why this is happening but I don't think we can debate that it is happening. Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, is monumentally unpopular. The only one in the country who makes him look good is New Jersey's Republican governor, Chris Christie.

NEW HAVEN >> Although the American Health Care Act, a federal bill meant to repeal and replace the current health care laws, was beaten back this week as U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed the vote until after July 4 facing unpopularity with the public and some members of his own party, a coalition of progressive groups rallied outside the Yale School of Medicine to prepare themselves for the sequel.

NEW HAVEN >> Officer David Hartman remembers how bar owners responded to his pitch to provide more uniformed officers in bars popular with the LGBTQ community. "It wasn't well-received," Hartman said. "But we did it anyway. Not with the uniforms and not with marked cars, but we put detectives and officers in soft cars.

HARTFORD >> A group of 10 relatives, mostly children, squeezed together in the courtroom Wednesday as they waived to Cristian Cozyalt Sampedro, who was about to testify in his bond hearing, after being picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials following a car accident.

NEW HAVEN >> Geoff Fox, the popular TV meteorologist in Connecticut for many years, is coming back to WTNH News 8 in New Haven.