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About 79% of voters approved Proposal 4, according to unofficial results. It adds an equal-protection guarantee to the state constitution, nearly 40 years after a narrower sex-equality amendment failed.
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The vote starts a state-required review. Lebanon voters would have the final say, most likely in June. The board also held off on winterizing the building for now.
Massachusetts State Police said troopers also helped Becket police arrest a man reported to be threatening officers with a gun, among several arrests in the week ending Oct. 24.
Vermont State Police say Tammy Flemings, 54, seriously injured a family or household member at a home in Addison. She was released on $1,500 bail.
The 39-year-old driver's truck first rear-ended another vehicle, according to State Police. No one else was hurt, and no one has been charged.
Chief of staff Matt Brokman will stay on as the Connecticut governor reviews agency leadership before his Jan. 6 swearing-in.
The governor's move cuts off a bid by two conservative groups to freeze the law until a possible 2028 repeal vote. All reporting comes from The Boston Globe.
A Hampden Superior Court jury found Pablo Rivera-Ortiz, 42, guilty in the July 2022 killing of Desiree Rivera-Lopez, 36, prosecutors said. He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 13.
Willie White, 59, pleaded guilty to robbing a Sunglass Hut in West Hartford at gunpoint in 2024. Prosecutors said he was carrying a stolen pistol fitted with a device that makes it fire fully automatically when he was arrested.
Connecticut, Michigan and New Jersey said the medical transcription and billing companies will pay at least $300,000 and adopt new security measures after a 2023 breach that exposed records tied to more than 13.3 million people, including about 108,000 in Connecticut.
Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are among the states asking a federal appeals court to deny the Trump administration's request to pause a ruling against conditions on Homeland Security grant money.
Federal prosecutors say Kevin Patel, 40, collected about $2 million from friends and acquaintances through a company he called Royal Investments and spent the money instead of investing it.