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The Cathedral of St. Joseph was filled Wednesday afternoon with 130 priests in cream-colored robes, 30 deacons in white robes, parishioners squeezed into every pew in the cavernous nave, horn players and a choir poised in a high balcony and the archbishop up in front wearing his pointed mitre. ...

Federal drug investigators took an East Hartford pediatrician into custody Wednesday alleging he wrote bogus medical marijuana and opioid prescriptions in exchange for cash. Dr. Sheikh Ahmed, 55, briefly appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert M. Spector in New Haven on charges of conspiracy...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich is facing 20 lawsuits filed this week alleging abuse of teenage students at The Academy at Mount Saint John, a Deep River residential treatment center, in the 1990s. The lawsuits were filed by Hartford attorney Patrick Tomasiewicz, alleging students were abuse...

New Britain is tired of waiting for answers in the fatal police shooting on Chapman Street last December — and so are its leaders, Mayor Erin Stewart told the head of the investigation this week. “We all want the people we care for to have answers and to have the ability to take the next step —...

A new survey by The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. shows the yearslong opioid epidemic is negatively impacting employers and few employees have the knowledge or resources to handle addiction. The survey, which questioned employees and human resource professionals, showed that nearly two-thirds...

One mother shed tears when she read the superintendent's announcement. Another said it felt like a body blow. After struggling with growing numbers of parents in school cafeterias, the Darien school system said parents and guardians would no longer be welcome to visit with their children during...

A shuttered branch of the city’s public library will get new life next month when a local marketing company sets up shop in the vacant brick building. Co:Lab, a branding and design studio now on Park Street, will move into the empty space on New Britain Avenue formerly known as the Goodwin library...

Connecticut’s dairy farmers, who were caught in the middle of President Donald Trump’s trade wars with other countries this year, have received little money from a federal mitigation program meant to compensate them for losses. They are hoping for more. “It’s a drop in the bucket,” said Seth Bahler,...

The defense lawyer for Adam Zachs, the former West Hartford resident convicted of murder in the shooting death of Peter Carone 31 years ago outside the Prospect Cafe, made a variety of mistakes that undermined his case and helped lead to his client’s conviction, the state’s former No. 2 public...

Sophie Huget knows firsthand how much the New Britain Industrial Museum can raise its profile. As a lifelong Connecticut resident, aspiring curator and later a part-time staffer at three Hartford and West Hartford museums, Huget knew almost nothing about the tiny New Britain museum until this autumn....