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Noelle Alix and her daughter, Cate, 21, had been all over Simsbury, looking for a job for Cate. Cate is friendly and outgoing. She’d been voted prom queen at Simsbury High School, and had recently graduated. She was now at the age that scares the heck out of parents of children with an intellectual...

Shortly after the Bridgeport City Council’s budget committee opened its meeting last May, Councilwoman Jeannette Herron took up the first order of business with a directive to members of the public. “Okay, everybody out,” she declared. “Make a motion,” Council President Aidee Nieves said, followed...

The state of Connecticut announced Wednesday that it was using $12.2 million from a settlement from Volkswagen’s diesel car scandal to fund 10 projects aimed at reducing emissions, including the replacement of buses, trucks and engines on a ferry. State officials estimate the projects will cut...

A man described by a prosecutor as a “serial domestic violence offender” pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder for the strangulation death of his girlfriend in Hartford a year ago. Lawrence Jennette, 40, faces 25 years in prison when he is sentenced Jan. 8. Jennette’s guilty plea was part of an agreement...

KNOX, an organization that coordinates a variety of greening programs in Hartford, plans a Harvest Market at 75 Laurel St. on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Local produce, food trucks, bread and cheeses, games, live music from local bands and goats will be available. More than 20 farms, artisans...

When three gleaming 2018 E-One Typhoon fire engines go into service this month, they’ll replace trucks that have been on front-line duty since 1982. “What the firefighters like most about these new ones is reliability. They’re designed to take the wear and tear in the city of New Britain,” Ortiz...

With parents clamoring for closer communications, the school system is launching more newsletters, revamping its webpage and adding a parents-only conversation area on Facebook. “We’re going to be rolling out a lot of new things,” said Matt Cannata, communications director for the 10,000-student...

Despite committing crimes that shattered the public’s trust in Hartford’s city government, former Mayor Eddie Perez has returned to his work in the community and is living an “admirable life,” his attorney, R. Bartley Halloran, told a judge Wednesday in a bid to save Perez’s city pension. It’s...

Denise Nappier, who as state treasurer steers Connecticut’s $34 billion pension fund, has signed on to a coalition of public and private investors hoping to nudge gun manufacturers towards modest reforms. For leverage, she wields a retirement fund that includes $66 million invested in companies...

A California man who earlier this year tried to fraudulently take possession of two Dell computer servers pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted first-degree larceny as part of a plea agreement. Under the terms of the deal, Mikhail Lev, 42, of Encino, California, was able to avoid jail. Lev, who...