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HARTFORD >> Familiar forms of renewable energy include wind, solar and hydropower. And state Sen. Ted Kennedy Jr., D-Branford, wants to add cow manure to that list."'Cow Power' is a term for the conversion of cow manure into electricity, enabling farmers to make money by adding a new, desperately-needed source of farm revenue," Kennedy said in a press release this week.

BRANFORD >> A DNA test has confirmed the emaciated dog found walking along U.S. Route 1 in town is a Rottweiler, Chinese Shar Pei and Beagle mix.The DNA test, analyzed by DNA My Dog on March 27, was performed not only to determine the dog's breed, but to also to further the pending investigation into identifying the person responsible for the animal's condition.

NEW HAVEN >> Fresh flowers, natural light, jazz playing in the background and of course good food.All the accouterments were there Tuesday when the Orchid Cafe at ConnCAT brought together community and state supporters, as well as its graduates and students-in-training in anticipation of opening day Wednesday.

A black teenager who wrote about the "unavoidable" racial issues he faces growing up in an affluent, predominantly white Connecticut town has won an essay contest on the topic of white privilege.The winner, Chet Ellis, is a 15-year-old sophomore at Staples High School in Westport.He wrote about being followed around by a manager inside a store, and he described a discussion one day during track practice on getting into college when a white friend told him he would have no problem because he's black.

BEIRUT >> A suspected chemical attack in a town in Syria's rebel-held northern Idlib province killed dozens of people on Tuesday, opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the country's six-year civil war.

NEW HAVEN >> New Haven's Director of Choice and Enrollment Sherri Davis-Googe is used to moving pieces. Since 2014, she has overseen the placement of thousands of students in the city and from surrounding suburbs into district magnet schools. Those pieces begin moving on Wednesday, she explained to a school board committee Monday.

NEW HAVEN >> If everything goes as planned, East Shore Park will become the longest stretch of living shoreline in the state of Connecticut, said Elsa Loehmann, associate director of river restoration at Connecticut Fund for the Environment/Save the Sound.

According to a release by Nathan Rigney, senior tax research analyst at The Tax Institute at H&R Block, it's April and "this year 4 million more taxpayers are waiting until the last two weeks to file their tax returns.

NEW HAVEN >> U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., simplified the issue."The veterans that need the greatest level of care are getting the least. The veterans who need the most care are getting none," Murphy said in a press conference at City Hall on the Honor Our Commitment Act he just introduced in Congress.

NEW HAVEN >> The city has a new business hub designed to woo Brazilian entrepreneurs to build technology-driven companies here.Monday's opening of Hub55 in the former New Haven Savings Bank Building at 195 Church St. was the culmination of three years of effort by Pamela Ariane da Silva, a 2014 Yale School of Management graduate, who is a Brazilian native.