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Proceeding with caution: Casinos hit road to recovery

Elvira Cruz Vallejo disinfects slot machines in the Great Cedar Casino as employees at Foxwoods Resort Casino clean and disinfect the property Thursday, May 28, 2020, in preparation for a limited opening planned for June 1. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun will reopen to the public Monday morning for the first time since voluntarily closing the night of March 17.

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Demonstrators march in New London to protest George Floyd death

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of downtown New London on Saturday to protest the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minnesota.

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New London rally focuses on safety of health care workers, commemorates life of nurse's aide

Michael Graveline, left, is consoled Saturday, May 30, 2020, while he listens to his daughter, Felicia, talk about her mother, Elva, during the rally. Elva Graveline was a Lawrence + Memorial Hospital nurse's aide that died of COVID-19. The rallly was held on the lawn of the Harbor School in New London to raise concern of the lack of protective equipment, employee safety and also to honor Elva Graveline. It was organized by the AFT union health care workers employed by Yale-New Haven Health. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Elva Graveline’s name has become a rallying cry in southeastern Connecticut.

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A person jumps on a burning police vehicle in Los Angeles, Saturday, May 30, 2020, during a protest over the death of George Floyd. Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Protests over police killings rage on in dozens of U.S. cities

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A parking lot filled with scorched cars is seen Saturday, May 30, 2020, after a night of fires and looting in Minneapolis. Protests continued following the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Herd immunity would come with 'enormous potential human toll'

Antibody tests show we're nowhere near the estimated 60% to 70% threshold needed, and even with antibodies, it's unclear what immunity is afforded and for how long.

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Lynn Valentine, a former St. Bernard School and University of Hartford golfer and the 2008 Connecticut Women's Open champion, is now the LPGA teaching professional at Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., where she has worked for 22 years. (Photo courtesy of Lynn Valentine)

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A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, May 30, 2020. For the first time in nearly a decade, astronauts blasted toward orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil, a first for a private company.(AP Photo/John Raoux)

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Helen Hine in September 2019 at a barbecue in her daughter Pam's backyard in Old Lyme. (Courtesy of Pam Hine)

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Saint Bernard senior Haseeb Qureshi poses for a photo Tuesday, May 26, 2020, at his Norwich home. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

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Visitors at Waterford Town Beach on Aug. 3, 2012. Waterford Beach Park is closed to nonresidents this summer due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Closing beaches to nonresidents is illegal

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David Collins

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Mike DiMauro

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Leonard Pitts Jr

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Lynn Valentine, a former St. Bernard School and University of Hartford golfer and the 2008 Connecticut Women's Open champion, is now the LPGA teaching professional at Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., where she has worked for 22 years. (Photo courtesy of Lynn Valentine)

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A person jumps on a burning police vehicle in Los Angeles, Saturday, May 30, 2020, during a protest over the death of George Floyd. Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

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People demonstrate against all government restrictions related to concern about the spread of COVID-19, Saturday, May 30, 2020, outside the Statehouse in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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In this March 2, 2020, file photo, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., endorses Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden at a campaign rally in Dallas. As presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Biden begins the process of choosing a running mate amid the coronavirus crisis, managing the pandemic has become its own version of an audition. For potential picks, lobbying for the job means breaking into the national conversation, positioning themselves as leaders and executing at their day job. (AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez)

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