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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said at a briefing this morning that he is monitoring the weather and the state's storm preparations closely.

The huge snowstorm that covered the East Coast led to a nightmare aboard a JetBlue flight as an estimated 200 passengers were stranded for seven hours Saturday at Bradley International Airport with no food, water, or working bathrooms.

Some people dream of a white Christmas. Others think it's cool for Thanksgiving. But before Halloween?

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy this morning warned that it could be a while before power is restored to every corner of Connecticut.

So, how safe is the food in the refigerator and the freezer?

And then there were three.

Leaders in Hartford, West Hartford and other hard-hit communities are asking residents to forgo Halloween trick-or-treating tonight due to post-storm safety concerns.

By midday Monday, officials in power-starved northwestern Connecticut said they still had not heard one word from Connecticut Light and Power Co. Read columnist Rick Green's latest dispatches from the road.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other top state officials held a conference call this afternoon with more than 100 local leaders to discuss storm recovery efforts.

The deadline for certain state tax filings and payments due Oct. 30 has been extended to Nov. 15 because of the weekend snowstorm, the Department of Revenue Services announced Monday.

Maybe it's because he personally helped hand out cots to stranded travelers at Bradley International Airport Saturday night, but Gov. Dannel P. Malloy expressed little sympathy for passengers stranded on grounded planes, some for as long as seven hours.

President Obama on Monday signed a declaration of emergency for the state of Connecticut and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local storm relief efforts.

United Illuminating expects to restore power today to the 4,200 customers still without electricity, and to release its crews to Connecticut Light and Power for use in the rest of the state, a UI spokesman said this morning.

State health officials have issued boil-water advisories for 37 small public drinking water systems, as of mid-afternoon Tuesday.

In a blow to the administration, Governor Dannel Malloy's trusted chief of staff, his deputy chief, and communications director are all leaving.

The president of the state's largest utility company had plenty of numbers at a press conference on how many crews were working, but he was unable to say how many customers had their power restored Tuesday.

The state Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday announced service changes wrought by the pre-Halloween snowstorm that plunged much of Connecticut into darkness.

State lawmakers are proposing new standards for power restoration and steep penalties for utility companies that fail to meet them.

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