DANBURY, CT — Gov. Ned Lamont today announced that he is nominating David A. Arconti, Jr. of Danbury to serve as a commissioner of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

PURA is the state agency responsible for overseeing the services of the state’s investor-owned utilities, including electric, natural gas, water, and telecommunications companies.

Arconti is currently the vice president of state government relations for United Illuminating, a position that he has held since September 2023. In this role, he works with lawmakers and other state officials on the development of policies related to the utility company’s general operations.

Immediately prior to his current job, Arconti was the director of community engagement for Fuel Cell Energy.

Beginning in January 2013, Arconti served five consecutive terms as a state representative in the Connecticut House of Representatives for the 109th Assembly District of Danbury before deciding not to seek re-election in 2022. During his time in the state legislature, he served for several years as co-chair of the Energy and Technology Committee.

“I’ve known David Arconti for several years, and during this time he’s been deeply interested in energy policy, particularly when it comes to matters concerning the promotion of clean energy and the enactment of policies that will reduce energy costs for consumers,” Lamont said in a statement. “He is going to bring a fresh perspective to PURA, and I know that from his experience he will be able to work with lawmakers and utilities to develop strategies that advance our goals of bringing cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable power to consumers.”

Arconti, a Southern Connecticut State University graduate, will begin serving at PURA in an interim capacity effective Aug. 5. At the start of the 2025 regular legislative session, the Office of the Governor will forward his nomination to the Connecticut General Assembly for its advice and consent.

In a statement issued Thursday, Arconti thanked Lamont, saying, “There’s a lot of exciting work happening here, and I can’t wait to contribute to innovative and sustainable energy solutions for Connecticut.”

(WFSB) – Someone bought a Cash 5 ticket in Connecticut that’s worth $100,000.

The winning ticket was from Tuesday’s drawing, according to the Connecticut Lottery.

It matched all five numbers.

The numbers were 6, 7, 11, 19, and 31.

The CT Lottery said a total of 6,816 winning tickets of varying amounts were sold for the Cash 5 drawings on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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A 76-year-old Connecticut woman was found dead at her home Wednesday, hours before she was to be sentenced for killing her husband and hiding his body for months while continuing to collect his paychecks.

State police said they were investigating the “untimely death” of Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi after being called to her Burlington home for a welfare check shortly after 10:30 a.m. The cause of her death was under investigation, and police and her lawyer did not disclose any further details.

Kosuda-Bigazzi had been scheduled under a plea deal to be sentenced at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Hartford Superior Court to 13 years in prison for the 2017 death of her husband, Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi, 84.

Her lawyer, Patrick Tomasiewicz, said her death was unexpected.

“We were honored to be her legal counsel and did our very best to defend her in a complex case for the past six years,” he said in a statement. “She was a very independent woman who was always in control of her own destiny.”

Police said Kosuda-Bigazzi wrote that she and her husband got into a fight after she told him repairs were needed to their home’s backyard deck. She wrote that he came at her with a hammer and she managed to wrestle it away from him during a lengthy struggle, authorities said.

“I hit him just swinging the hammer in any direction + then he was quiet — for a few seconds + then he stopped breathing,” she wrote, according to investigators. “I just wanted to slow him down. I sat on the floor by the kitchen cabinets across from the stove — next to him for a long time.”

State troopers found her husband’s body in their basement in February 2018 during a wellness check requested by UConn Health staff. It was wrapped in plastic and showed an advanced stage of decomposition, authorities said. The medical examiner said he had died from blunt trauma to his head.

Investigators have said they believe Pierluigi Bigazzi died sometime in July 2017 and that his UConn Health paychecks continued to be deposited into the couple’s joint checking account until his body was found.

An internal investigation by UConn resulted in the disciplining of a school medical official who was supposed to monitor Pierluigi Bigazzi’s work but had no contact with him in the months before his body was found.