• A Yale doctoral student who has been fighting a deportation order that's been against his undocumented mother says he was stunned to learn that she was nearly deported back to Honduras on Sunday night. Instead, Cristian Padilla Romero’s mother, Tania Romero, was sent to another federal immigration detention center in Georgia. Tania Romero has been in custody since August, after she was stopped for a traffic violation and subsequently detained by immigration officials. 
• A Darien man charged with manslaughter in the April death of a hotel worker in Anguilla skipped his latest court appearance on the island because he fears for his safety. Scott Hapgood has received death threats, his attorney says. A forensic pathologist initially ruled that Kenny Mitchel died of asphyxiation related to his fight with Hapgood but then revised the decision, attributing his death to a large amount of cocaine in his system.
• Members of a one-of-a-kind military dog unit were honored by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Veterans Day. The 928th Military Working Dog Detachment is part of the Connecticut National Guard and is the country’s only working dog unit attached to the Guard. The dogs perform many duties, including patrols and detection of drugs and explosives.

Unraveling The Long-Term Impact Of PFAS Firefighting Foam Remains Elusive

The crash of a vintage B-17 bomber at Bradley International Airport raises more questions about the lasting impact of PFAS, a family of thousands of manmade chemicals. 

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are found in everything from nonstick cookware to firefighting foam, including the foam used by emergency personnel at the Bradley crash. Some of it ended up flowing onto land and into nearby waterways.

The Federal Aviation Administration requires airport operators to use aqueous film-forming foam, or AFFF, because it’s so effective against fuel fires. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency says emerging evidence shows that some of the chemicals have been linked to health problems.

Still, the EPA has yet to officially classify some of the PFAS chemicals as hazardous, as not enough is known about their toxicity.

And with the federal mandate to use the foam, airport operators have little leeway. 

“If we want to continue to operate Bradley Airport ... we have to utilize this foam,” said Kevin Dillon, executive director of the Connecticut Airport Authority. MORE »

• Political bickering and charges of secrecy surround the state’s ongoing effort to contain health care costs, The Connecticut Mirror reports.
• The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has kicked up its quest for more electric vehicles on Connecticut’s roads, according to the Hartford Business Journal. Its ambitious plan now calls for 500,000 electric vehicles on the state’s roads by 2030.
• ProPublica documents one family’s crusade to hold Boeing accountable for the Ethiopian crash of a 737 Max 8 that took the life of their daughter.