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Hartford Police Tag City Council Member's Facebook Post With Dislike

Yard Goats, Fans Settle Into Temporary Home In Norwich

UConn Health Staff Move To New Hospital Tower

Action Delayed on Malloy's Second Chance Proposal

Hernandez Associate Acquitted Of Murder

'Human Heart' For Hailey In Windsor

Donald Trump's Former Greenwich Mansion For Sale

Who's Climbing Connecticut's Career Ladder?

NBMAA's Art Party of the Year Gala

#TBT: Golf Around Connecticut

Yard Goats First Connecticut Game

UConn Women Visit The White House

2016 Charter Oak Vision Awards

Up For Auction: Somers 'Monticello' Mansion

Data: Non-White Drivers Face Harsher Treatment In Some Connecticut Towns

GE CEO Lists New Canaan Home For $5.5 Million

College Graduations In Connecticut

What To Expect This WNBA Season? Lots Of Changes (Hopefully For The Better)

The WNBA celebrates its 20th anniversary this season and will do so with many new innovations, both in how the games look and how its teams will qualify and play in the postseason. It also has a new president, its fourth, Lisa Borders, who brings to the league a quarter-century of experience in...

• Morgan Tuck Getting Plenty Of Guidance From Sun Veterans

Price Has 12 Ks; Betts, Bogaerts Homer As Red Sox Top Astros

BOSTON — David Price struck out 12, Mookie Betts had a three-run homer and Xander Bogaerts had a two-run shot to help the Boston Red Sox beat the Houston Astros 11-1 on Thursday night for their season-high fifth straight win. Jackie Bradley Jr. singled twice and extended his hitting streak to 18...

Trinity Baseball Team Looks Ahead, Puts Losses To Wesleyan In Rear View Mirror

As far as numbers go, Trinity baseball coach Bryan Adamski is throwing those bad boys out the window. Never mind that the Bantams were swept by their NESCAC nemesis last weekend by a combined score of 14-3. Never mind Trinity hasn't beaten Wesleyan since 2014. Yes, the Bantams (15-19, 7-5) will be...

State Budget Deal Would Wipe Out Public Transit Panel

HARTFORD — Despite the state government's campaign to boost bus and train ridership, the new budget deal appears to eliminate the Connecticut Public Transportation Commission. If the House approves the $19.76 billion spending plan on Friday, it would do away with the all-volunteer panel that hears...

• Residents Of Bristol Region Get To Offer Opinions About Transit Service

South Windsor Deputy Mayor Carolyn Streeter-Mirek Challenges Sen. Timothy Larson

SOUTH WINDSOR — Deputy Mayor Carolyn Mirek will challenge Sen. Tim Larson, D-East Hartford, in the 3rd Senate District this November. "Our state needs leaders who are more interested in what is best for working people, not themselves," Mirek, a Republican, said Thursday. "I am interested in getting...

Two More Connecticut Women, One Pregnant, Test Positive For Zika

Two women, one of whom is pregnant, tested positive for the Zika virus after traveling to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic in April, state officials said Thursday. The cases announced this week bring the total number of Connecticut residents infected by the mosquito-borne virus to six, the...

Senate Approves CTNext In Effort To Boost Startup Companies

HARTFORD — It could be years before results are visible, but Connecticut made the first significant move Thursday to extend state government's role in promoting startup firms and early-stage business ventures. The Senate approved a $19.7 billion state budget that includes a provision broadening...

FedEx Breaks Ground On New Facility In Middletown, 400 New Jobs To Come

MIDDLETOWN — Construction will begin soon on a 525,000 square foot FedEx Ground distribution hub on Middle Street at the former site of the Aetna campus. Local and state officials participated in a groundbreaking Thursday morning with FedEx Ground, which says it will create at least 400 jobs with...

• Gov. Malloy Speaks At Groundbreaking Of Middletown FedEx Ground

Lender to Move Into Renovated Zunner Building

HARTFORD — The Hartford Community Loan Fund — an active lender for rehabilitation projects around the city — followed especially closely the $2.5 million renovation of the Zunner Building in Asylum Hill over the past six years. When the community loan fund helped finance the purchase of the building...

• Long-Vacant Hartford Building Has Its $2.5 Million Renovation

Rell Gave Up On CT's Direction A Long Time Ago

There's irony in M. Jodi Rell criticizing Connecticut as the former governor switches her residency to Florida. She cited "the direction" of this state for her move. But she is partly responsible for its direction. Though she did try to get the state's finances under control during her tenure,...

Kevin Rennie: How Come Public Money For Candidates Untouched?

Everyone in state government has looked for ways to trim the next $20 billion budget to get it to look balanced. Every cushion has been lifted in the search for some errant coins.

Colin McEnroe: Unelectable? Not In The Year Of The Long Shot

One of the lessons of the 2015-2016 election cycle is that the press was too quick to dismiss a candidacy that doesn't fit our preconceived templates. We beheld a 74-year-old crotchety socialist atheist Jew and a spray-tanned multi-bankrupted insult comic with a seventh-grader's understanding of...

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The Charter Oak Vision Awards

2016 Run For The Roses

Woody Allen Addresses Ronan Farrow Fallout (Sort Of)

'Money Monster' Review: Jodie Foster's Hostage Thriller Struggles To Maintain Momentum, Credibility

In Cannes, George Clooney Vows Donald Trump Won't Be President

Potential Trump VP pick Gingrich asks 'Why would I say 'no' to the circus?'

Facebook details how it delivers the news after bias alleged

Medical malpractice lawsuit in Joan Rivers' death settled

Tell the FDA what you fear more: Zika, or GMO mosquitoes