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A Missouri man was freed from prison Wednesday after a county prosecutor declined to retry his case, punctuating years of work by WNBA star and former UConn standout Maya Moore and other supporters who argued he was falsely convicted of burglary and assault charges. Moore was present when Jonathan Irons, 40, walked out of the Jefferson City Correctional Center. She…

UConn is back in the Big East. The Huskies officially rejoined the league on Wednesday. UConn left the Big East after the 2012-2013 season to join the American Athletic Conference after the league decided to drop football and focus on basketball. The school was one of the original members of the Big East, along with Providence, Boston College, St....

In a lengthy Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday, University of Connecticut officials said the school faces a $50 million deficit, the largest in school history. Addressing the issue there’s set to be a range of actions, including using reserves, pursuing state and federal assistance and cuts. Beginning in July through the 2021 fiscal year, managers will be furloughed one day…

UConn Athletics announced today that several sports will be cut from the program because of budget issues

UConn athletics is cutting four sports at the end of the 2020-21 season and will be reducing some scholarship.  UConn Athletics said it had to cut 25 percent of the budget from the university, around $10 million by 2023, and it will eliminate men’s cross country; women’s rowing; men’s swimming and diving; and men’s tennis. Around 124 student-athletes and...

University of Connecticut proposes cuts to programs after 2020-21 academic year.

Facing its biggest budget deficit in history, UConn will furlough managers for one day per month without pay in a cost-saving measure. UConn president Tom Katsouleas notified non-union managers of the furloughs in a letter dated on Friday, June 19. “While we have taken steps to ameliorate this by implementing hiring and spending restrictions, advocating for relief through the CARES…

Professor Manisha Sinha is an expert on U.S. history and the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction. She discussed her thoughts on the debates to remove controversial statues which are sweeping across the country.

Before the UConn Board of Trustees Financial Affairs Committee could get to business last Friday, first they listened to more than 30 minutes of heartfelt pleas from their school’s track and field alumni. The former Huskies called in to make their case in the hopes of saving their sport from potential budget cuts. Next week, UConn athletics is expected to…

UConn is looking into reports of racist social media posts from incoming and current students and said the school can and will rescind admission if warranted. “We are aware of the social media posts being circulated and are taking each of them very seriously,” UConn President Tom Katsouleas posted on Twitter Monday. “UConn is committed to racial justice and respect…

UConn is conducting research on COVID-19.

Peter Manfredonia, a UConn student who is accused of killing two people in Willington and Derby and leading police on a multi-state manhunt, is back in Connecticut and will be arraigned this morning on several charges, including murder, Connecticut state police said Friday morning.

Protesters organized in the City of Norwich three times in the last week. Two protests are scheduled for the upcoming weekend. It is a level of public discourse and protest that Mayor Peter Nystrom (R) has never seen. “Not in my lifetime, no,” said Nystrom. “Not the level of anger, sadness, the volume of people. Nothing ever like this.” Norwich…

A professor at UConn has been tracking many protests since the women’s marches in 2017 and shares what he has learned

Eighth graders at the E.B. Kennelly School in Hartford were greeted by some special guests when they returned to school for the first time in months to clean out their lockers. “They’re hurting,” said E.B. Kennelly athletic director Tim Cheever. “A lot of them rely on us for the relationships and all of the sudden in mid-March the world got...

8th graders at the E.B. Kennelly School in Hartford were greeted by some special guests when they returned to school for the first time in months to clean out their lockers.

The University of Connecticut has released information on what the plan to reopen the university in the fall could look like. The plan, which is not yet final, says masks would be required in public, common spaces, including classrooms. UConn said it has purchased enough masks to supply the  entire community, but if someone is unable to wear a...

The University of Connecticut announced its plans to welcome back students to campus in the fall.

Student will be able to return to campus this fall but campus life will be a little different.

UConn Athletics might need to make some big changes to its department soon. Chief Financial Officer Scott Jordan told the Board of Trustees during their May meeting that athletics is looking at ways to cut up to 25 percent of its institutional subsidy, which was more than $40 million last year, per the school’s 2019 fiscal report to the NCAA….