HARTFORD — Connecticut would pump more money into charter schools and increase their numbers under a legislative proposal Gov. Dannel Malloy plans to unveil Monday.

There's no shortage of children affected by trauma -- whether it's trauma linked to domestic violence, sexual abuse or other events. But until relatively recently, there has been accompanying lack of strategy on the part of national and state child welfare officials to try to prevent trauma from impacting the child's life forever.

The Democratic governor said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press that he believes revenues will rebound, as originally projected in the two-year, $40.1 billion budget plan that passed last year. He said he's "not seeing anything" that indicates revenues will not rise in the fiscal year that begins in July.

Charter schools would expand and get more money under a plan by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration to be announced Monday, but some of the additional funding would have to come from local school districts.

The state Supreme Court on Monday morning will hear a last-ditch attempt by Republicans in the General Assembly who want to make it easier to run congressional candidates against Democrats who currently represent all five districts.

The state's technical high school system would get a boost in funding, a new board and programs more tailored to the needs of employers under proposals outline Friday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

Under Connecticut law, a home health aide can spend all day caring for you, but if you need help taking your pills, you'll need a nurse to come give them to you.

After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.