New Haven police are investigating a report of a woman shot on Henry Street Monday afternoon.

Police said they received a call from a 35-year-old around 2:20 p.m. reporting she was shot on Henry Street and was on her way to the hospital.

The victim’s condition was not immediately clear.

The shooter was reportedly driving 2012 grey Audi. Investigators believe the victim was targeted by the suspect.

The investigation is ongoing.

The Southington Drive-In has released its summer season schedule, and it includes classic titles from The Lion King to Jaws to The Sandlot.

The Southington Drive-In is located at 935 Meriden Waterbury Turnpike and the summer season kicks off on June 2.

Gates to the drive-in open at 6 p.m. Southington residents pay $10 per car and non-residents pay $15. Walk-ins are welcome for $2 per person.

For more information, visit their Facebook page.

Newly obtained internal documents from the Environmental Protection Agency provide a behind-the-scenes look at the Scott Pruitt-led agency — offering evidence of private, high-level meetings at the Trump International Hotel in Washington and lavish dinners for top agency officials both at home and abroad, NBC News reported.

In one such instance — during a four-day trip to Italy for last year’s G-7 summit — Pruitt dined at the five-star, luxury Hotel Eden in Rome. That detail is included in the more than 10,000 pages of documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Sierra Club.

The Hotel Eden's fine dining restaurant, La Terrazza, offers a tasting menu for 280 Euros per person ($333.76, U.S.). A schedule indicates Pruitt's dining partners for the evening included his chief of staff, Ryan Jackson, and Samantha Dravis, his former senior counsel who resigned abruptly last month.

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is looking for developers to bring new life to the Seaside State Park project in Waterford.

DEEP is looking for a partner to help restore and reuse the historic structures already on site. Monday they got a look inside the former Seaside Sanatorium that has sat vacant for at least two decades.

The Seaside property was originally a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients, then served as senior housing and a group home before closing in 1996. In 2014 Gov. Dannel Malloy made the property a state park, the first new one along the Long Island Sound in more than 50 years.

The buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. The original architect, Cass Gilbert, also designed national landmarks such as the Woolworth building in New York City.

“We’ve had interest in this property for a long time,” said Chris Walker, president of Resort Realty in Madison.

Walker said he’s had is eye on the site for 10 to 15 years. He plans include restoring the site to become tourism-driven property that would be hotel and other use and bring in local, national and international demographics.

“When you have residential development, like you do mostly in Connecticut on the shoreline, it really cuts off all the public access and we just feel like something that’s resort-use is the best use for the state,” Walker said.

DEEP Commissioner Robert Klee told NBC Connecticut in March that the plan is to increase public access to the Long Island Sound. The agency is looking to create lodging, dining, a spa and other amenities using the more than 107,000 gross square feet of buildings available.

DEEP said the master plan for the property “envisions a public-private partnership resulting a 60 to 100 room boutique hotel.”

“The buildings are incredible. Obviously they need some TLC,” Michael Baker International Senior Architect Steven Iovanna. The firm is based in Rocky Hill.

Along with coming to scope out the property, Iovanna came to meet the players. He wants to team up with a developer and/or contractor and other design professionals to design the site. He already knows there’s some challenges.

“There’s environmental issues, and deterioration and historic restoration is a science sometimes,” Iovanna said.

The Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation has been working to get the word out about the project. Staff wants to be able to work with possible developers and assist them with historic preservation tax credits and any grants or resources that could be available to them, said Co-Director Jane Montanaro.

“Our main goal is to see (the buildings) maintained, used and people appreciate them,” said Deputy Director Christopher Wigren.

The deadline for proposal submissions is Friday, July 27. For more information, visit the DEEP website by clicking here.

Connecticut has more than 200 school districts, but some don’t have enough children to fill classrooms, while other districts must decide whether to close deteriorating schools that could cost millions to fix.

For many towns, those are funds that may not be available.

While many of the state’s school districts continue to go it alone, some have begun to merge or share resources with other schools and districts.

“Regionalization is a critical first step in saving our taxpayers, actually rescuing them,” Ansonia Mayor David Cassetti said.

Both school districts in Ansonia and Derby have agreed to a regionalization study as they consider moving in that direction.

Angela Etheredge has three children in Ansonia public schools. The family likes their small district but understand that it’s facing budget problems. She says she would like to see her district merge with the neighboring school system in Derby.

“I think that’s a great idea. Definitely, it will save on cost,” Etheredge said.

Mayor Cassetti says his city can no longer afford its own district and a merger is the solution.

“Regionalization is the way to go, it’s a thing of the future, and it has to be done,” Cassetti said.

Nearly half of Ansonia's $63,075,581 budget goes to the school district. The remaining funds must be used for everything else like public safety, maintenance, and health services.

Mayor Cassetti hopes that once a study on merging with neighboring school district Derby is complete, the two districts can join forces and improve their financial situation.

The mayor says declining enrollment, state funding cuts and soaring costs are making it difficult for the district to survive on its own.

“Change needs to happen in order to look out for the best interest of the taxpayers,” said Cassetti.

He says if they form a bigger district with their neighbor, they’ll see immediate benefits.

“We’ll get more funding from the state, which means we’ll have better AP programs, music,” Cassetti said.

While Ansonia is studying a potential merger with other districts in order to survive, some districts are struggling because of fewer students, which means fewer dollars.

BELOW: The Connecticut General Assembly's Legislative Program Review and Investigators Committee looked into Regional Cooperation Between Local Boards of Education in 2015 and made recommendations encouraging the state to make school districts aware of available options.

The Young family is losing their neighborhood school in Torrington because of financial difficulties.

“It’s been a really great time at East School, but I’m really sad it’s closing,” 6-year-old Samantha Young said.

“She loves that school, she loves her teachers, it’s like a big family and it’s going to be sad to see it go,” said Samantha's mother, Christine Young.

Some former lawmakers, including retired state senator Gary Lebeau, say the only solution is to have more school districts join forces.

“We need some dramatic movement here, you’re not going to have any savings with two or three towns, “ Lebeau said. “You’re going to need to have a broader seven to ten towns getting together. Maybe 20.”

LeBeau served Connecticut’s Third Senate District before retiring. He has been a longtime advocate of school regionalization. He says schools districts and taxpayers will benefit financially by sharing resources.

“I’m not necessarily advocating for county government at this point. I think we can go to regionalized services without going to county government. But eventually the obvious solution to our problems is to back county government,” he said.

When Tim Tebow, the former NFL quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner, came to Hartford to play some baseball this week he also took the time to reach out to a special fan.

According to her boyfriend, Mary Catherine Hydrick, known to her friends as MC, is a huge Tebow fan. The 23-year-old is also battling leukemia.

“My girlfriend was just recently diagnosed with leukemia and her dream has been to meet Tim Tebow,” her boyfriend, Austin Ramos, explained.

MC is currently in Georgia going through chemotherapy. Ramos lives in Springfield, Mass. attending college and Skypes with her every night. When Ramos found out The Hartford Yard Goats were playing Tebow's team, the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, he and his friend Christie Idiong headed down to Dunkin’ Donuts Park. 

“I was pretty determined to have that happen for him. I've met MC and she's such a sweet girl,” Idiong said.

While Tebow was signing autographs, Ramos and Idiong explained MC’s story, and Tebow helped them record a special video message.

“MC how you doing? I’m just hanging here with your friend. I know you’re going through a tough time but we’re just thinking about you. I’ll be praying for you God bless you – got an awesome plan for your life. Keep fighting and being an inspiration. God bless,” Tebow said in the video as he stood alongside Idiong.

Ramos said MC is a very religious person and it meant a lot to her that Tebow reached out.

“I sent her the video and she's just started bawling her eyes out. it just means the world,” he said.

“Anything he would say to her would definitely raise her spirits,” Idiong added.

Tebow started in the minors last year playing in Single-A but moved up this season to Double-A. This is his first visit to Hartford, though the Yard Goats did play against Tebow last season in Binghamton.

Construction of a luxury home development is causing headaches for neighbors in South Windsor.

Residents say they’re fed up with their days and nights being wrecked by noise from workers. On Monday they fought back as the town considered whether to loosen the rules even more for construction crews.

“They’re trying to be good neighbors. It’s kind of late for that,” said Carol Brown of South Windsor.

Fired-up neighbors filled a Town Council meeting in South Windsor and blasted a plan to allow contractors to work until 7 p.m. at the “Estates at South Windsor” on Graham Road.

“I had been very optimistic about this development going in. It has not gone well,” said Robin Shaw of South Windsor.

According to the website of the developer, Toll Brothers, there are more than 40 properties, with future homes starting at more than $500,000.

Neighbors say the past months have been filled with contractors already working well beyond the required 4:45 p.m. cutoff.

“I look forward to this beautiful weather we have, to be able to sit outside with family and friends without listening to the beeps, the construction sounds, the trucks and the extra dust in the air,” said Lynsey Desmond of South Windsor.

“Last Friday night at 3:30 in the morning there was a lumber delivery. And it’s nice out so our windows are open. So I heard that idling for 35 minutes,” said Sheila Strong of South Windsor.

Some are concerned that if the cutoff was pushed until 7 p.m., work would go even later than that based on the issues happening right now.

In a brief conversation with NBC Connecticut, a representative of Toll Brothers said they were not aware of the problem but declined further comment.

Those who will eventually live in the homes argued the extra work hours could mean the project could finish more quickly.

“I’m very sorry our houses our causing you this distress. But I think in the interest of a timeline let’s get these houses done so it can be over with,” said Caralynn Della Ripa of South Windsor.

On Monday, the town council denied the proposal to extend the hours.

They’re going to spend the next month looking into the issue and have encouraged neighbors to report potential problems to police.

It's difficult to find anyone associated with the CIA who doesn't speak well of Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the nation's premier spy agency, NBC News reported.

The praise is plentiful but the details about why she's a good choice are apparently classified — she's been undercover for almost all of her time in the agency.

"In Gina we have somebody who has done the hard work abroad and done the hard work in Washington," said Frank Archibald, the former head of the CIA's operations arm who rarely speaks to reporters but has responded to most inquiries about Haspel.

She faces a tough Senate confirmation Wednesday, but the strong support in the American intelligence community is weiging on Democrats who are undecided about her nomination, congressional officials say.

Police responded to a crash accident on the property of Aerospace Techniques on Country Club Road in Middletown and said the accident was not as serious as they once thought.

Emergency crews responded around 5:20 a.m. Tuesday and a pickup had to be pulled from a ravine on the property. 

It's not clear if there were any injuries.  

No additional information was immediately available.

The world-renowned rock climber and East Bay resident who survived a terrible fall last week on Yosemite’s El Capitan said he was briefly in "agony" as he coped with a painful, hourslong predicament thousands of feet above ground. 

Hans Florine, 53, told NBC Bay Area he was 2,300 feet up the popular peak when he suddenly found himself upside down, hanging by a rope, with a broken ankle and heel.

Florine said he somehow stayed calm, as did his climbing partner. He overcame the pain by becoming a spectator in his own life, looking at his situation as if someone else was undergoing the ordeal, he said. He then shot a video and posted it to Instagram.

The video shows Florine moments after he plunged 20 feet while climbing the nose of El Capitan, which rises over 3,000 feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley.

"I’ve done it a hundred times," Florine recalled of the favorite spot for rock climbers. "Now I’ve done it 110 times."

Florine suffered a shattered right heel and a badly broken left ankle and has surgery scheduled on both next week. This week he was able to recount the accident in detail.

"You are placing gear into a small crack all the way along for 3,000 feet. You place in gear every 3 to 6 feet," he said.

"I set it in the crack, I tested it and then when I stood up on it, it popped out. The piece that was only 4 feet below me caught me but the rope didn’t come tight until I had already banged my heels, landed on a ledge and then fell another four or five feet over the ledge," he said. 

What happened next: "I flipped upside down, actually had my back against the wall, head down. I was in agony for a millisecond, and my body pumped me full of endorphins and locked this all up."

Florine has literally written the book on climbing El Capitan. The 2016 tome, called "On the Nose: A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite's Most Iconic Climb," details his most dangerous and death-defying climbs.

During his latest scare he stayed calm, as did his partner. They fell to a certain point then lowered down 200 feet to a ledge that was a little more comfortable for them to rest, Florine said. It was 2 p.m.

A rescue team got Florine back to the top about eight hours later.

Florine said someday he’ll climb back up.

"I know stuff is possible still," he said.

Police in South Burlington, Vermont issued a plea for information to people on Cape Cod Monday, saying it’s possible a murder suspect could be hiding there.

“Our search is broad,” Chief Trevor Whipple of the South Burlington Police Department said, describing the search for Leroy Headley, 36.

Headley is the only suspect in the shooting death last week of his girlfriend, 33-year-old Anako “Anette” Lumumba, a mother and nurse.

Investigators believe Headley, who has faced previous criminal charges of violence and sexual abuse, killed Lumumba in a home on Southview Drive, then sped off in a blue Nissan Pathfinder with Vermont plates HBR 281.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Headley, who stopped at an ATM to withdraw $5,000 before vanishing, police said.

Whipple said Headley might have headed for Massachusetts, where he has a lot of family on Cape Cod.

“We do not have any reason to believe that they’re cooperating with him or that they’re hiding him, but we do have reason to believe that when people are in crisis, they retreat to family; they retreat to known areas,” Whipple explained.

Headley is considered armed and dangerous, so police urged anyone who may see him to simply call 911 instead of approaching him.

Anyone with non-emergency information that could still assist police can call the South Burlington Police Tip Line at 802-598-3528.

During a media briefing, the police chief also addressed the murder suspect directly.

“And if Mr. Headley is watching this, it’s a matter of time,” Chief Whipple said. “And I think it’s almost never that someone goes unfound. We will find you eventually.”

“It’s a terrible tragedy,” Kelly Dougherty, the executive director of Steps to End Domestic Violence, said of Lumumba's death.

Steps to End Domestic Violence is a group in Chittenden County helping turn the tide on unhealthy relationships, whether it’s physical, sexual, emotional, or economic harm.

Dougherty said many of Vermont’s homicides are linked to domestic violence, but services are available—including emotional support, safety planning, and crisis intervention.

“With continued work of organizations like Steps to End Domestic Violence, we can work to ensure that violence is just not acceptable, and that people are not only held accountable but also get the help that they need,” Dougherty said.

Steps to End Domestic Violence operates a 24/7 domestic violence hotline for people in Chittenden County, at 802-658-1996.

The National Network to End Domestic Violence also operates a hotline for people anywhere. That number is 1-800-799-7233.

Police are also asking people on the Cape and across New England to keep an eye out for Headley’s 2017 blue Pathfinder, especially if the vehicle appears parked in a location that seems like it was hidden or abandoned.

Even though they believe Headley could be on the Cape, Chief Whipple noted that he could be elsewhere, since there have been no confirmed sightings as of Monday afternoon.

North Haven police have arrested a 15-year-old Windsor Locks teen in connection with the armed robbery of two teens in December. 

Police said two North Haven teens were sitting in a parked car in the lot of Bar Restaurant on Washington Avenue on Dec. 5 when three masked men approached them and one of the robbers opened the driver’s door, pointed a gun at the driver and demanded money. 

Another robber opened the passenger’s door and took a cellular phone and purse from the passenger, police said. 

Detectives identified a 15-year-old from Windsor Locks as the armed suspect and said he has been charged with robbery in the first degree and larceny in the fifth degree. 

Police said he was ordered to be detained.

The Kilauea volcano erupted on Hawaii's Big Island last week following a magnitude 5.0 earthquake.

Since that eruption, the volcano has been shooting out fountains of lava, destroying more than 30 homes and forcing more than 1,700 people to evacuate.

Scientists say it's unclear how long the eruption will continue and that's leaving many travelers in a panic.

If you're thinking about canceling your trip to the Big Island, your travel insurance policy may not back you up.

According to Squaremouth, a travel insurance comparison site, the volcano isn't in an area where many tourists frequent and hotels and resorts shouldn't be affected.

But what if there's a travel advisory? 

For example, American Airlines issued a travel advisory for people traveling to Hilo or Kona, Hawaii.  If you're scheduled to travel between May 5 and May 13, American Airlines will waive the change fee.

Squaremouth said this advisory would not qualify for a trip cancellation benefit under a travel insurance policy.

We're told canceling a trip by choice typically isn't covered.

In order for an insurance policy to reimburse the cost of the trip, the traveler must have been prevented from going.

If you're simply afraid to go to the Big Island and the thought of the volcano is putting a damper on your vacation vibes, unfortunately, fear of enjoyment is not covered either.

Unless there's an evacuation notice in the city you're traveling to, you will likely be on the hook if you cancel.

So what does your travel insurance cover?

Family or medical emergencies are standard.

Premium insurance policies are more expensive, but many allow you to cancel for any reason, so you may want to consider that option.

Do your research on the policy. Travel agents may have preferred relationships with only a couple of insurance providers, but there could be better ones out there.

You can visit comparison sites like squaremouth.com. There you will find more than a hundred policies from many companies.

Just when his parents signed papers allowing his organs to be donated to other children, 13-year-old Trenton McKinley began to stir from his coma, "Today" reported.

The Alabama boy was injured in a go-carting accident two months ago, rushed to a hospital with seven skull fractures.

"They told me I'd be a vegetable," Trenton told "Today" after he had regained consciousness hours before his family was prepared to take him off life support.

Now the teenager is able to talk and walk: "I don't really seem like a vegetable, do I?"

In April of 2014, a 5-year-old girl was playing with her brothers on the grounds of the Econo Lodge in Terre Haute, Indiana, where she was staying with her family, when a man grabbed her, took her into his motel room, hit her, pulled off her clothes, and molested her.

Court records show that the man, Timothy Blazier, 50, was a recently paroled, twice-convicted child-molester. He’d been living at the Econo Lodge for three months when he molested the 5-year-old girl. He’s now back in prison, serving a sixty-year sentence for the attack — his third conviction involving the sexual abuse of a child.

The incident spurred protests from some Terre Haute residents when they learned that the Econo Lodge — part of the Choice Hotels International chain — had been home not just to Blazier, but to 12 other convicted sex offenders who, according to local news reports, had been housed there at state expense because the motel was one of the few locations that lay outside the town’s prohibited zones for sex offenders.

Following the attack, Choice Hotels cut its affiliation with the motel, which closed a few months later. Choice Hotels International has not responded to several emails from NBC5, asking for comment on the 2014 incident.

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In a six-month investigation, NBC5 Investigates found 667 sex offenders who reported that they were living at 490 motels and hotels throughout Illinois and nine surrounding states. Though many offenders appear to have checked in to these motels for just a few weeks or months at a time, approximately half of the offenders that we found, reported staying there for at least six months or more — and sometimes for years.

(We used two hotel guides to check all addresses in a 10-state region -- Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin — and then cross-check those addresses with each state’s sex offender registry, to find sex offenders who listed their home address at motel. We did this twice – once in the fall of 2017, and then again in the 2018, for all 10 states – though it should be noted that, for the most part, Minnesota does not list offender addresses on its registry, so there are very few results from Minnesota.)

With few exceptions in just a handful of towns across the country, it is perfectly legal for any registered sex offender to take up residence at a hotel or motel, as long as it is outside restricted zones. Often these offenders have few other places where they can legally reside, because — depending on where they live — they must keep 1,000, 2,000 or even 3,000 feet or more away from parks, schools and a variety of other places where kids might be — places which dot most residential neighborhoods. Motels and hotels are usually not part of those restrictions.

For their part, motels and hotels are under absolutely no obligation to check the background of any guest — short-term or long-term. They’re also under no obligation to notify visitors about anyone else staying there. And registered sex offenders aren’t required to tell hotels and motels about their criminal histories. Laws vary somewhat from state to state, but in essence sex offenders are mainly obligated to notify local police, any time they move to a new residence or start a new job. It’s then up to the police to decide how or if they want to follow up on that information. So no one — not the motels, not the police, not the offenders — are breaking any laws or rules. In fact it may be that the only way an offender can follow the law is to live at one of these motels along the highway on the outskirts of town.

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A total of 314 of the motels we found, where registered sex offenders reported their residences, were mainstream motels with their own websites for online reservations, and most of those were affiliated with well-known chains — places where families and other travellers are likely to stay. We also found that a significant number of the motels were in well-travelled areas — at interstate exchanges (where families often stop overnight on road trips), for example, or in university towns (where families often visit students or attend sporting events).

Increasingly, many law enforcement officials and attorneys argue that this is what society essentially asked for: Because most states and communities have imposed such strict limits on where released sex offenders can live (while still requiring them to live in the town where they committed their offense), often an offender's only legal choice is to live on the margins of towns, often in "clusters" in apartments or motels at highway interchanges — where, ironically, they may be in closer contact than ever to families and children.

“I think we all have a shared interest in safe communities and crime prevention, but residential exclusion zones are nothing other than legislative gimmick,” says Adele Nicholas. She’s a Chicago civil rights attorney who — along with fellow civil rights attorney Mark Weinberg — represents convicted sex offenders who are trying to find legal places to live.

"People are living in these hotels and motels because they're out of options," Nicholas says. “They’re oftentimes pushed to the margins of society and facing potential homelessness, which causes them to have to take up residence — short-term or long-term — in a motel." In other words: The "unintended consequences" of buffer zones.

Nicholas cites several studies that show that residential restriction zones do not reduce crime. She argues that we all need to re-evaluate the conventional wisdom concerning sex offenders and safety: “I think that creating conditions so that people can successfully re-integrate in society — through productive work, through stable housing, through important community connections to their families and loved ones — are good both for someone who committed an offense in the past, and for the safety of society in general.”

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In several areas of the 10 states NBC5 Investigates looked at, during the fall of 2017 and/or during the spring of 2018, we found sex offenders who reported living in motels that are just off major interstates and highways — on the margins of the community where they're required to live — but also the exact places a family might pull into, during a road trip.

Take a single interchange in Madison Wisconsin. Last fall — when rooms were at a premium during the University of Wisconsin’s football season — NBC5 Investigates found six separate chain-affiliated motels at that one interchange listed as housing a total of nine sex offenders, convicted for such crimes as sexual assault of a child; aggravated child molestation, child pornography, and rape.

Or take another interchange in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, near Illinois State University. We found five brand-name motels listed as housing a total of six sex offenders over a six-month period between fall of 2017 and spring of 2018 — all of them offenders against teen-aged children. Four of the five motels are clustered at the interchange. And all five motels are listed on the “visitbn.org” website, which ISU links to for suggested hotels for students and their families to stay in while they are visiting the campus. Again, neither ISU nor “visitbn.org” would ever have any obligation to check to see who might be staying in those motels, and no reason to know that some convicted sex offenders may be residents.

These interchanges aren’t unique:

• In Columbus, Ohio (not far from The Ohio State University), we found four motels at a single highway interchange where ten sex offenders said they were living, over the past six months.

• We also found two sex offenders — including one offender against children — who said they were living in two motels listed on the website “visitchampaigncounty.org,” which is the link that the University of Illinois provides for people planning to stay overnight while visiting the Urbana campus. (Once again, neither U of I nor "visitchampaigncounty.org" has any obligation to check on other guests at those motels.)

• NBC5 Investigates also found large clusters of motels at other interchanges where you might likely pull off for a night’s stay, such as one interchange in Merrillville, Indiana (four motels housing nine sex offenders); an interchange in Seymour, Indiana (six motels housing nine sex offenders); and a single interchange in Cleveland, Tennessee (four motels housing four sex offenders).

• Then there’s a single interchange in Murfreesboro, Tennessee: We found residents who reported their addresses at two popular motel chains there. One was listed as the home of six sex offenders, and another was listed as home to fourteen more: Twenty total registered sex offenders in just two name-brand motels at one well-travelled interchange. Add fourteen more sex offenders who list their home at a smaller motel at the same location, and that's a grand total of 34 sex offenders at this single interchange – nearly half of them child sex offenders — all who reported that they lived in this cluster of motels on the edge of town.

Adele Nicholas hopes that these "unintended consequences" of restriction laws might spur the general population to re-evaluate what really might help this admittedly-unpopular group of people. Living in a motel, she says, hampers — not helps — an offender's chance at rehabilitation, "by making it more difficult for them to obtain stable housing; to have the sources of community support that they need, and to have gainful employment and access to transportation -- all things that contribute to people having law-abiding lives." 

"And that's not good for anyone," she adds. "Not just someone who committed an offense — but for society in general."

Police said they have identified the man who was found dead along Saugatuck Shores in Westport last week.

Someone who was walking along the water Friday morning saw the man’s body, which washed ashore on Harbor Road in Saugatuck Shores, and called police at 8:40 a.m., according to police.

Police said the man was identified as 60-year-old Gregory Garoffolo, of Westport.

Investigators learned that Garoffolo’s vehicle had been on the Interstate 95 Saugatuck River overpass during the early morning hours of May 4 and Connecticut State Police had towed it.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Garoffolo sustained injuries consistent with a fall and drowning and his death is not being treated as suspicious, according to police.

Heather Cox and her wife, Sonia Otalvaro, wanted a fun night out when they went to Dean’s Club in North Miami Beach. But they say they never got past the front door.

“We said, ‘Yeah, we want to come in,’ and they said, ‘You can’t,’ and I was very confused by that answer," recounted Cox. "So I asked again, ‘What do you mean we can’t? You have to be accompanied by a man’ they said."

The couple, who was visiting from San Francisco, says they called an attorney to sue the club for violating Miami Dade County code that prohibits discrimination based on “gender or sexual orientation.”

“It’s blatant discrimination. I can’t get into the club because I’m not with a man. What?” said Cox.

According to the lawsuit, Dean’s said, “It is a company policy not to allow unescorted ladies in our club without first seeking management approval."

“They were targeting a specific part of the population and you can’t. They were targeting unaccompanied women,” said Matthew Dietz, the attorney Cox and Otalvaro hired.

Dean’s Club says they do not discriminate and that they have the obligation to screen visitors to protect the business and their customers.

“What happens here is that because it is a gentleman’s club there are concerns that it may attract people such as prostitutes or women who are upset looking for their husbands or their boyfriends. And there have been incidents,” said Eduardo Rasco, the attorney for Dean's Gold.

Rachel’s, an adult club in Orlando, seems to share the same concerns. Two women shot video of a club manager explaining why they were not allowed in. 

On the video the manager tells them, "We don’t let females in by themselves because we don’t know if you’re looking for your husbands or boyfriends. We don’t want a domestic situation, all right. That’s why we’re not going to allow you in here by yourselves.”

Anita Yanes and Britney Smith, who recorded the video, filed a lawsuit against Rachel's. They are also represented by Dietz.

“I felt embarrassed. I mean it never happened to me before,” said Yanes.

Smith says she’s actually been allowed in the club before with a male friend and this was the first time she was denied.

“I was completely embarrassed and felt humiliated,” said Smith.

Rachel's did not want to talk on camera about their policy but a manager defended the practice saying that it’s common among clubs in the area.

An online search shows similar complaints including a woman who sued a club in Los Angeles when she wasn’t allowed in. It ended in a settlement.

As for Dean's, Rasco tells us they have now “revamped the ways they filter out undesirables.”

Two female producers for NBC 6 went to Dean's Club to see if that was the case. Both were allowed into Dean’s and four other strip clubs in South Florida with no problems.

That’s what the four women who are suing say they want to see at gentlemen’s clubs everywhere and hope their lawsuits are part of that change.

“I hope this will shine a light on other establishments that are doing the same things,” said Smith.

“Do the right thing be true gentlemen and treat people equally because the definition of a gentleman is a man who acts honorably and so treating people in the way we were treated is not honorable,” said Otalvaro.

The attorney for Dean's says that the day the women visited, the employee did not follow the company's policy correctly, because it says employees should not turn away unaccompanied women but they should call a manager on duty.

Tweed New Haven Regional Airport could be getting bigger in a move that city leaders hope will boost the airport’s business. 

The Board of Alders approved a resolution last night, supporting lengthening the main runway. That means the grassy safety zones around the main runway would be paved, expanding the 5,600-foot runway another 1,000 feet. 

Though the expansion would stay within the airport’s current footprint, the proposal goes against a 1997 act forbidding expansion. This bill would change that act. 

Ted Siwinski has lived next to the airport for nearly 30 years and said that if this goes through, the city better help him soundproof the house. 

“If they can do something with the sound of it, and make it safer for people here and the residents, fine, go ahead,” Siwinski said. 

For neighbor Elizabeth Mahan and her family, the engines are simply white noise. 

“We don’t really mind it,” Mahan said. “We thought we would mind the noise that would keep us up when we’re trying to sleep or something.” 

The city said expansion could boost declining travel. 

In the mid-90s, Tweed saw about 130,000 passengers, but in 2007 it had only 40,000. A longer runway could mean more commercial flights in and out of Tweed, with destinations like Washington D.C., Chicago and Florida. 

“I think it could be kind of good for the state to have more tourists,” Mahan said. 

Siwinski agrees. 

“To be able to fly out of here instead of going to New York or Hartford, it’d be nice to fly out of here to go to Florida.” 

So long, he said, as it’s not at the cost of peace and quiet. 

“If they’re going to make the airport bigger, make it more decent for us to live here,” he said. 

The General Assembly now has to make the final vote on this bill.

Miriam Medina's house in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, was "completely lost" following Hurricane Maria nearly eight months ago and she's lost count of all the times FEMA denied her individual assistance application because she couldn’t prove to them that she owned the home, NBC News reported.

The house sits on a piece of land Medina bought for $1,500 almost two decades ago, eventually building a home there alongside her ex-husband.

In order to be eligible for FEMA aid under the individual assistance program, applicants need proper documents to provide proof of home ownership.

The number of such denied applications — 335,748 out 1.1 million claims — highlights a history of illegal construction and poor housing development on the island, mainly in poorer communities. Some neighborhoods across the island established themselves in the aftermath of past hurricanes. 

Applicants have a chance to appeal any FEMA decision and there are other forms of aid available. But Puerto Ricans who live in communities that were informally built and without permits on government or privately owned lands continue to have a hard time navigating FEMA’s hurdles.

Jordan Spieth will return to the TPC at River Highlands in Cromwell to defend his title at the 2018 Travelers Championship. 

Spieth and the tournament made the announcement on Tuesday. 

Spieth won last year's Travelers Championship in dramatic fashion by holing out a bunker shot on the first playoff hole against Daniel Berger. 

It was his second win of 2017, having won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, but it wasn't his last victory of the year. 

Just a month later, Spieth won the British Open for the third major title of his career. 

He won both The Masters and the U.S. Open in 2015. 

Several big-name players have already committed to playing in Cromwell this year, including Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas and Bubba Watson.