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The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is forecasting the air quality on Wednesday, May 17 and Thursday, May 18 to be unhealthy for sensitive groups.The New Haven coastal area through Northeastern Connecticut will be the most effected, while the rest of the state will be in a moderate air quality zone.

NEW HAVEN >> The Yale students and their families celebrating the university's 316th commencement on Monday will be greeted by thousands of labor activists who will be demonstrating to try to force the Yale administration to negotiate a contract."We expect thousands of allies from our colleges and Yale staff, faculty, friends, clergy, and we have extended invitations to our allies in the labor movement up and down the East Coast," Aaron Greenberg, chairman of

NEW HAVEN >> Wayne Bradbury Tuesday was found not guilty of first-degree assault and attempted first-degree robbery but guilty of two weapons charges in the shooting of a young man during an attempted marijuana transaction in a Wallingford liquor store parking lot.The split verdict was puzzling for the prosecutor and the defense attorney until the jury foreman later explained the six jurors had concluded Bradbury didn't intentionally shoot the man, nor was there sufficient evidence of a robbery.

The last weekend in April, a circus with roots in Connecticut (P.T. Barnum, born in Bethel, became famous as an expert at bamboozling people, then a circus tycoon and later a Bridgeport mayor), was in Hartford. Music boomed, people cheered and laughed, tigers snarled. And then it ended. The trucks and the train rolled away.

NEW HAVEN >> It took a few years, but it appears police have found their body cameras. Interim Police Chief Anthony Campbell joined other department supervisors Tuesday to unveil the Taser Axon body camera as the department's choice to outfit their officers. The body cameras were chosen following a brief pilot program completed in April involving four officers over three-day periods.

The state Medical Examining Board Tuesday fined a Yale New Haven Hospital doctor $10,000 for abandoning a patient who was detoxing and reached an agreement with a Norwalk doctor to stop practicing medicine because his lapse in care contributed to the death of a patient.

NEW HAVEN >> For weeks, Board of Education member Carlos Torre has kept a professional distance between his preferred agenda for Dr. Cortlandt V.R. Creed Health and Sports Science High School and that of the Citywide School Building and Stewardship Committee, on which he serves as chairman.

NEW HAVEN >> On Sept. 11, 2001, Paul Vercillo, now a history teacher at Riverside Education Academy, ran from his offices on Wall Street towards Brooklyn.

HARTFORD >> Legislative Democratic leaders put forward a budget proposal Tuesday that legalizes marijuana, expands casino gaming, creates a paid Family and Medical Leave system, and reduces funding for Connecticut's clean election system.

HARTFORD >> More police accountability is needed in Connecticut, a group of mostly black and Puerto Rican lawmakers said Tuesday.After a Bridgeport police officer shot and killed a 15-year-old boy last week, Sen.