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After more than 18 months of pre-trial hearings, a Superior Court Judge Friday moved the murder case of Richard Dabate, accused of killing his wife in their Ellington home in 2015, to the jury trial list. Dabate, 42, once again appeared briefly before Judge Jorge Simon and didn’t speak as he stood...

Dozens gathered outside the federal courthouse on Main Street early Friday to ask the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stay the deportation of Nelson Pinos, a man who has taken sanctuary in a New Haven church for a year. “Keep Nelson home,” the group chanted outside the building. A small...

Jury selection has begun in the first of two lawsuits arising from the beating death of 3-year-old Athena Angeles of Willimantic in November 2011, which remains one of the most bewildering child-abuse cases in recent memory. Athena’s mother and the mother’s boyfriend have been convicted of manslaughter...

Christian Meissenn, the Suffield man who was the central figure in a criminal enterprise that stole more than $19 million from 12,000 victims through penny stock manipulation, received a three-month sentence Thursday in federal court in New Haven. After a lengthy sentencing hearing that included...

The expansive court case seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for the nation's opioid crisis has a new complication: How does it deal with claims covering the thousands of babies born dependent on the drugs? Attorneys representing the children and their guardians want their claims separated from...

Connecticut’s cities and suburbs have become key nesting habitats and migratory stop-over sites for a wide variety of wild birds that include eagles, falcons, hawks, great horned owls and songbirds, according to a new report. The study by Connecticut Audubon Society notes that this state has the...

A Central Connecticut State University police officer accused of sexually assaulting a female colleague was fired following a lengthy probe into the university and department’s mishandling of the case first reported in 2016, school officials said Thursday. Officer Curtis Lollar, who was not criminally...

‘Hamilton” isn’t the only revolution coming to The Bushnell. The show’s popularity has added a virtual army of thousands of new subscribers to the theater's Broadway series. Beth Hyland, The Bushnell’s director of marketing, estimates that the theater’s subscriber base has increased 50 percent...

How does a fast-talking, awesome Broadway show — a hip-hop history of the American revolution — still going gangbusters, known around the world, immortal and beloved, find itself in Hartford in December? The national tour of the musical theater sensation “Hamilton” finally arrives at The Bushnell...

In a corner of the Hartford Public library, people line up to shoot, beat and find calm while helping to hand-weave a banner. “This is your time to get your aggression out,” textile artist Sandy Bender Fromson jokes to a young woman whose left arm is a sleeved with tattoos and is seated at Fromson’s...