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A driver was killed and two other people were injured in a head-on collision in East Lyme on Saturday night, police said. The crash occurred on Flanders Road at about 11 p.m. The driver of one car died at the scene, and a passenger in the car, as well as the driver of the other vehicle, were extricated...

An 18-year-old Plainfield man who swallowed four bags of crack cocaine — but didn’t fool a drug-sniffing police dog — was arrested Sunday following a traffic stop, police said. Jeremy Hammer was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by police for speeding and having an obstructed license plate. Police...

Gathered at a monument to their dead, its base describing the war that took them as simply “The World War,” the town of New Britain remembered 123 sons who died in the war that ended 100 years ago Sunday. At 11 a.m., a small silver bell pealed 21 times in New Britain’s Walnut Hill Park. It rung...

Using a platform upon which she has lashed out at press coverage or demanded more from a sometimes embattled staff, Joette Katz, commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, said in an agency-wide email Friday that she is leaving her post in two months, in time for incoming Gov. Ned...

On Nov. 4, 1918, a war-weary Connecticut soldier wrote to his brother from a cratered battlefield in France. “I have thought a good many times lately that I never would be able to write home again,” Sgt. Paul H. Maynard of Torrington wrote. “We have had a hard time at this front and will be glad...

J. Stan McCauley, a Hartford businessman, announced Saturday morning outside City Hall that he intends to run for mayor in the 2019 local election. “This is not a decision that I’ve reached lightly,” McCauley said in a press release, “but rather one that I’ve seriously considered for more than...

When Cpl. J. Robert Conroy returned to New Britain at the end of World War I, he had two missions: Helping soldiers who had suffered, and spreading the word of Stubby, the dog that saved American troops and French civilians. “My grandfather never spoke about himself in the war, never. But he made...

The approval of two independent testing labs in Massachusetts this week heralds the start of recreational pot sales to the north, no later than Thanksgiving, one dispensary says. “This isn’t going to get into next month,” says Norton Arbalaez, director of government affairs for New England Treatment...

A hearing in a defense effort to have the murder charge against Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi dropped could be nearing an end. On Friday, the ninth day of the hearing, defense attorney Patrick Tomasiewicz questioned two state police detectives and a state trooper who were at the Burlington home Kosuda-Bigazzi...

A Superior Court judge has granted a temporary injunction allowing a gas station on Woodland Street to remain open around the clock, despite a city order last summer requiring it to close overnight. Digvijay Bansal, the owner of the gas station known as “Andy’s Mart” on Woodland Street and a convenience...