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New Haven, a city known for multiple decades as a bastion of live music and a breeding ground for talented local musicians, has a new venue on the scene. But The State House isn’t your normal rock club. While you’ll find indie and alt rock shows, for example, dotting its robust calendar, the name...

Hartford Police Chief David Rosado is questioning a city council proposal to oversee the use of drones and other technology by law enforcement. With police planning to deploy drones throughout Hartford neighborhoods, the council wants a say over what equipment, monitoring and data retention officers...

The city of Wallace Stevens has picked its first-ever poet laureate, tasked with writing about Hartford and inspiring young poets within it. Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, an associate professor at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, was appointed by Mayor Luke Bronin, and heads to the city...

Cpl. John “Jack” Truhan of New Britain served in the Marine Corps as an aerial photographer in the 1950s, then went on to volunteer with Toys for Tots, the Little League, the city’s parks commission and the Roses For Marines fund drive. As a crowd of veterans looked on, Central Connecticut State...

The 19th annual “Turkey Tuesday” food drive will take place Tuesday morning to collect holiday meals for local needy families. The goal is to provide holiday meals to 15,621 families in Greater Hartford. The drive is sponsored by Bank of America with UnitedHealthcare and Foodshare, a food bank...

At a solemn Veteran’s Day ceremony Monday at the University of Saint Joseph, Leesa Philippon of West Hartford talked about growing up in a military family, her own service in the Army, having her son join the Marines in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, and the awful day she learned her son...

Connecticut’s Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine is now closed to the general public for the season, but officials are hoping to encourage winter-long visits by a few very special tourists: Big brown, long-eared, tri-colored and little brown bats. A new bat-friendly gate has been installed at...

The other inmates had taken to calling calling William Bennett “Chewbacca” because of the raspy grunts and hoarse groans that, for months, had passed for talking for Bennett, who also was having trouble swallowing. By the time Bennett died of larynx cancer n November 2017, less than a month before...

East Hartford police arrested a woman Sunday night after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend during a fight outside a KFC restaurant. Police also expect to arrest the boyfriend. Police responded to the stabbing at about 7:30 p.m. at the 300 Burnside Ave. restaurant and found the victim with superficial...

Just a day after taking over the top spot with the West Hartford Fire Department, newly appointed Chief Gregory Priest was digging through charred debris at a house fire Sunday that chased a family out of their Clarendon Avenue home. “It’s been an interesting first 24 hours,” Priest said. The blaze,...