HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A General Assembly committee has endorsed legislation raising the starting age for kindergarten students. The bill rolls back the fifth-birthday enrollment deadline from January 1st to October 1st, starting in 2015. It would affect about 6,700 children each year.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Trinity College students are holding a rally today in response to racially motivated incidents on campus. President James Jones Jr. says in an email that someone threw a beer at a student on Friday and used a racist slur. Offensive slurs were also left on two dorm room doors.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - There's still no verdict in the trial of a New Britain man accused of raping and strangling a pregnant Hartford teenager in 1998. Pedro Miranda is charged in the slaying of 17-year-old Carmen Lopez.
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - A state-run technical high school has won $20,000 in a contest that challenged students to plan innovative environmental projects. Students at Henry Abbott Technical High School in Danbury will use the money for a garden to supply fresh vegetables for the school's culinary arts programs, cafeteria and restaurant.
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