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Fewer Connecticut public school students are reading at grade level and slightly more are competent in math, according to state's 2017 standardized test results released Friday.Preliminary numbers show 54.2 percent of all third through eighth graders are at grade level in reading, a drop of 1.

NEW HAVEN >> New Haven Reads Community Book Bank on Friday announced they will receive $45,000 in grant funding over the next three years from First Niagara Foundation.First Niagara Foundation, in partnership with KeyBank, will provide $15,000 every year over the next three years to support New Haven Reads' six-week summer session, which primarily helps low-income students, according to a release from KeyBank.

HARTFORD >> As the General Assembly is unable to finalize a bipartisan agreement, the body won't be voting on a two-year budget Tuesday House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz said Friday.Aresimowicz had said at the end of June that they were aiming for a budget vote on July 18 - the day after rank-and-file union members finish voting on the two-year, $1.

NEW HAVEN >> A Silver Alert has been issued for Sade Billie, 30.Billie is a black female with brown hair and brown eyes. She stands 5 feet 3 inches and weighs about 200 pounds.Billie was last seen Monday, wearing a black T-shirt with an outfit of unknown description. Anyone with any information on Billie's whereabouts should call police at 203-946-6311.

NORTH HAVEN >> A woman and two children were hospitalized Thursday when the car they were in rolled over and uprooted a tree on Middletown Avenue, a fire official said..Firefighters responded to the area of Middletown Avenue and Fox Hill Drive and had to extricate the woman and two children from the overturned vehicle, North Haven Fire Lt.

By the end of July, Uber, the increasingly ubiquitous ride-sharing company, will be making some changes intended to improve drivers' experiences. First on its agenda: making it easier and faster for drivers to receive tips.

NEW HAVEN >> Police charged a man with first-degree assault following a fight downtown.At 11:15 p.m. Thursday, officers were dispatched to a reported fight on the lower Green. Police were informed that a 62-year-old man from New Haven was on the ground and unresponsive, while another man was hurrying toward Chapel Street, police said in a news release.

Gary DeCarlo and a couple of his buddies were "just fooling around," his wife recalled, as they quickly came up with a catchy song that had a memorable hook -- "na na na na -- na na na na -- hey, hey, hey -- goodbye.

WASHINGTON >> Connecticut Democrats are ready to take on what may be Senate Republicans' last chance to deliver on their dream of repealing and replacing Obamacare."You know the line about lipstick on a pig?" Sen.

HARTFORD >> One of the last pieces of legislation Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed this year was a bill that prohibits the state Department of Correction from putting anyone under the age of 18 in solitary confinement.