State Rep. Quentin Williams, D-Middletown, applauds during Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont's state of the state address, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in Hartford, Conn. Williams was killed overnight in a wrong-way highway crash after having attended the governor's inaugural ball hours and after having been sworn in to a third term, House Democratic leaders said Thursday. Brian O'Connor/AP hide caption
A 2012 file photo shows the Connecticut State Capitol building in Hartford. Jessica Hill/AP hide caption
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim apologized to the family and friends of the victims and to "all who care about the human decency that should be shown in these situations." Jessica Hill/AP hide caption
Shantell Fields, Lauren Smith-Fields' mother, stands with family members during a protest rally in front of the Morton Government Center, in Bridgeport, Conn. Jan. 23, 2022. Smith-Fields was found dead in her Bridgeport apartment in December and her family and friends marched in her memory on Sunday, which would have been her 24th birthday. Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut Media hide caption
Route 206 in Somerville, N.J., remained largely under water on Thursday. Similar scenes played out across the state and its neighbors. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP hide caption
Construction of an Amazon facility in Connecticut has been halted after a seventh noose was found by workers at the site on Wednesday. Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption
Trinity Health RN Kayla Bennett gives Hartford, Conn., resident James Watts his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a neighborhood vaccine clinic at the at the Parker Memorial Community Center. Ryan Caron King/Connecticut Public hide caption
A Connecticut prosecutor says the Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, shown here, will not face a second trial in the 1975 murder of teenager Martha Moxley in Greenwich. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Bridgeport Police Chief Armando Perez was chosen to lead the department in 2018, but authorities said he and a city official schemed to help him with the police chief examination. Jessica Hill/AP hide caption
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined Connecticut and New Jersey in instructing travelers from 16 states with rising numbers of coronavirus cases to self-quarantine. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
A hand sanitizing wipe station is seen next to the slot machines at the Mohegan Sun casino on May 21. Connecticut's two federally recognized tribes said they're planning to reopen parts of their casinos on June 1, despite Gov. Ned Lamont saying it's too early and dangerous. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption
A resident talks on the phone while walking in Jiangtan park after its reopening in March in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. The new coronavirus pandemic felt thousands of miles away, until it didn't. As cases in the U.S. skyrocketed, many noticed a shift — from watching the headlines, to watching what we touch. Getty Images hide caption
During his remarks to reporters before his departure to Norfolk, Va., President Trump said outside the White House that there was a "possibility that sometime today" there will be a two-week quarantine on parts of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images hide caption
Cows graze in a field in the Podunk section of East Brookfield, Mass. Christopher Fitzgerald/AP hide caption
Before scheduling his hernia surgery, Wolfgang Balzer called the hospital, the surgeon and the anesthesiologist to get estimates for how much the procedure would cost. But when his bill came, the estimates he had obtained were wildly off. John Woike for Kaiser Health News hide caption
A sample Drive Only license from Connecticut. Courtesy of Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles hide caption
Josh Koskoff, a lawyer representing the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims, speaks outside the Connecticut Supreme Court in this file photo from 2017. Patrick Skahill/Connecticut Public Radio hide caption
A police officer speaks to a man walking on New Haven Green, Wednesday, Aug. 15, in New Haven, Conn. More than a 100 people fell ill from suspected drug overdoses linked to a batch of synthetic marijuana laced with fubinaca. Bill Sikes/AP hide caption
A police officer speaks to a man on New Haven Green, where more than 70 people fell ill from suspected drug overdoses on Wednesday in New Haven, Conn. Bill Sikes/AP hide caption
President Trump and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker participate in a groundbreaking ceremony for the $10 billion Foxconn factory complex in June. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Connecticut is the latest state to pledge its electoral votes based on the outcome of the national popular vote. Here, an aide opens Electoral College ballot boxes during a joint session of Congress in January of 2017, to tally ballots for the president and vice president of the United States. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. hide caption
University of Connecticut law professor Jessica Rubin, left, and law student Taylor Hansen present arguments as animal advocates in a dogfighting case in Hartford on Tuesday. Connecticut is the first state to allow court-appointed advocates to represent animals in cruelty and abuse cases. Pat Eaton-Robb/AP hide caption
Linda McMahon, who twice ran for U.S. Senate in Connecticut, is Donald Trump's nominee to head the Small Business Administration. Jessica Hill/AP hide caption