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NEW HAVEN >> Police are conducting an investigation at 39 Lilac St., possibly in connection with a recent shooting. U.S. Marshals were on scene but have since left.Check back here for further information.

HARTFORD >> House members who wanted to override the governor's veto on a five-year affordable housing plan needed 101 votes on Monday.After a two-hour debate that pitted suburban versus urban lawmakers, the override succeeded 101-47, sending the legislation to the Senate.

NEW HAVEN >> After an initial scare when President Donald Trump presented a budget that would eliminate federal funding for the Long Island Sound, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3, announced Monday that Connecticut and Long Island representatives had secured $8 million for the waterway. "This is an enormous victory for our community and the Long Island Sound," DeLauro said, while standing in front of the Long Wharf Pier.

NEW HAVEN >> The Board of Alders is losing two members.Alders Carlton Staggers, D-30, and Alberta Witherspoon, D-7, both submitted resignation letters notifying Mayor Toni Harp they no longer will serve on the city's legislative board. Staggers' resignation was effective Friday, while Witherspoon's letter is dated Monday and effective the same day.

HARTFORD >> Nearly half the 61 towns and cities that participated in a Connecticut Conference of Municipalities survey have imposed some level of spending freeze during the first quarter of the current fiscal year.The fiscal constraints, CCM officials said, are in large part because the municipalities had to begin the 2018 fiscal year

Arnold Giammarco, the Army and National Guard veteran deported to Italy nearly five years ago, is back home in Connecticut with his wife and daughter.On May 14, 2011, federal immigration officials stormed Giammarco's porch as he talked on the phone, ordered him to lie face down, handcuffed him and placed him in detention.

NEW HAVEN >> Following the recent shooting death of Tyriek Keyes, 14, members of the Newhallville clergy have come together to create partnerships and offer paternal guidance to help end gun violence.

NEW HAVEN >>Jurors in the Michael Torres assault trial Monday saw videotapes in which two children told a social worker that Torres held their hands over a stove's flame.During recent testimony, a doctor said one of the two victims, who was 4 years old, sustained third-degree burns and had to be taken to the

The world could be closer to a vaccine against HIV, according to research released Monday by the National Institutes of Health.According to a news release from NIH, results from an early-stage clinical trial called APPROACH "show that an investigational HIV vaccine regimen was well-tolerated and generated immune responses against HIV in healthy adults.

NEW HAVEN >> A New Haven man was shot in the face and left arm Sunday afternoon in an exchange of gunfire between two vehicles on Walnut Street between East and Wallace streets around 1:24 p.m., police said.Police spokesman Officer David Hartman said moments later a gunshot victim was reported on East Street, south of Water Street, five blocks away from the initial reported exchange of bullets.