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In the blockbuster musical “Hamilton,” one of the songs asks the questions “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?” The touring company of “Hamilton” is stopping at The Bushnell from Dec. 11 to 30. In conjunction with that show, the Connecticut Historical Society is telling the story of Alexander...

The Thanksgiving rush is expected to be as busy as ever this year, with the brunt of travel expected to fall on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Wintry temperatures could complicate travel arrangements, with highs in the Hartford region unlikely to top 40 degrees Wednesday, or 30 degrees on Thanksgiving....

Two marijuana stores in Massachusetts were given the green light Friday to begin selling to recreational customers next week, making them the first commercial pot shops in the eastern United States. Both stores, one located in Northampton and the other in Leicester, said they would open Tuesday...

Attention motorists still shaking from Thursday night’s treacherous commute: The state Supreme Court has just made it a little harder to recover damages from the state for highway-related injuries, dealing a setback to a driver who crashed on an ice-coated Gold Star Memorial Bridge seven years...

Federal investigators began questioning voters in Hartford’s 3rd House District this week in relation to the August Democratic primary, a source with knowledge of the probe said. The nature of the probe was unclear. The investigation was first reported by Courant Columnist Kevin Rennie on his Daily...

The state on Friday dropped a murder charge against James Canidate, a Hartford man who’d been charged with shooting Teniel Mack in the head on March 19, 2015. Prosecutor Chris Pelosi told Hartford Superior Court Judge Laura F. Baldini that the state’s primary witness is unreliable because he has...

Agreeing that graphic anti-cigarette ads have been effective, a panel of Conard High School students on Friday suggested the federal government and health agencies could take a similar approach to discourage vaping. “There are these 30-second ads on Spotify, you can tell they’re so fake. Everyone...

Five weeks before the calendar says winter has arrived, a pre-Thanksgiving snowstorm hit the Northeast, testing state officials who said they were caught off guard by higher than predicted snow amounts and the storm’s bad timing. The state Department of Transportation, acting on forecasts of snow...

Facing backlash from community leaders and Metropolitan District customers — as well as talk of a protest outside the MDC’s Hartford headquarters Monday — MDC CEO Scott Jellison said Friday morning that the MDC will not move forward with a controversial water rate break for super-users. Earlier...

It was far from the biggest snowstorm to hit New England. But a badly timed nor’easter made the Thursday evening commute hellish for millions of motorists along the eastern U.S. In Connecticut, the season’s first winter storm dumped slushy, slippery snow on a state that appeared ill-prepared to...