The 2025 Little League Baseball World Series continues with the kids from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, facing off with Fairfield, Connecticut, today.

Norwalk, has become the first Connecticut lawmaker to be elected vice president of the National Conference of State Legislatures and is now on track to become president of the bipartisan national advocacy and research organization.

The company also shuttered over a dozen underperforming supermarkets in Massachusetts and Connecticut last year to focus on creating a healthy base for the brand. Since 2018, Stop & Shop has remodeled more than 190 stores, and has also enhanced its loyalty program, expanded its online offerings, and optimized its operational efficiency.

The Fairfield National Little League team won their game against the team from Honolulu, Hawaii on Friday, 5 to 1, and they are 2-0 heading into a game against on Monday night. Hawaii scored first on Friday night,

The Bridgeport zoo announced the return of its Glow Wild lantern festival in a Monday news release. The festival will kick off on Sept. 25 and run through Dec. 14 every Thursday through Sunday from 5:30-9:30 p.m. While the zoo will still close at 4 p.m. each day, gates will reopen at 5:30 p.m. for the lantern display.

The Sun blew a halftime lead en route to a 99-93 loss to the Fever Aug. 17. The team turns its attention to the Washington Mystics on Tuesday.

In an embarrassing incident Saturday, a 40-year-old man became stuck in a tube slide at an elementary school playground in Vernon, Conn., and was freed only after firefighters took the slide apart, authorities said.

Connecticut shoppers geared up for another week of tax-free shopping on Sunday. Connecticut’s Sales Tax-Free Week runs from Sunday, Aug. 17 to Saturday, Aug. 23. Retail purchases of most clothing and footwear under $100 are exempt from state sales tax.

The lawmaker said he also would pay restitution to Target and take a three-week leave from his committee duties.

Part of Loughlin Road in Oxford fell into the raging, flood-swollen Eightmile Brook just after Casey Lucarelli evacuated her father's home on August 18, 2024. A year later a nearby bridge remains out, turning the road into a dead end just north of the Lucarellis historic home.