News: As states are increasingly legalizing marijuana for recreational and medicinal use, veterans have had to navigate using medical marijuana on their own given it's classified federally as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it's illegal.

Business: Castle Hill Audio and Video, which sells and installs audio and video systems for homes and businesses, offering turntables, vinyl records, speakers, amplifiers, music streaming sources, sound bars, subwoofers and TVs, has a new location in Mystic.

Daybreak: With "Solemn Graves," local author Jim Benn has tried a new approach — a clever variation on Agatha Christie's "closed community" scenario.

Perspective: Obama-era rules intended to protect student borrowers from loan fraud may have been too vague about who should be eligible for help, but the proposals from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are soft on the lenders and hard on the students.