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The spreadsheet contains exactly 400 names, dates to 1786 and includes 17 categories sorted by the number that seemed to fascinate its creator, Adam Lanza, the most – the amount of people killed. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter’s spreadsheet is remarkable for its attention to detail, with...

What started with a Hartford police officer buying a homeless man shoes several years ago has blossomed into a day that puts new winter boots on hundreds of homeless men, women and children, drawing about 300 people to the event Saturday at Christ Church Cathedral. Through a local nonprofit, Footwear...

Business leaders at a forum this week made their case against a higher minimum wage, warning that it would reduce employment and speed the trend toward automation. But veteran state Rep. Mike Demicco, D-Farmington, made clear that the campaign to boost Connecticut’s $10.10-an-hour minimum wage...

A Manchester man who regularly disrupted his first-degree sexual assault trial was calm Friday morning as he learned he would be heading to prison for 20 years. Donald Daniels, 27, was convicted in October of three counts of first-degree sexual assault for the gunpoint rape of a woman in East Hartford....

A lawyer from Colorado who participated in a penny stock manipulation scheme orchestrated by a Suffield man had two years added to her federal prison sentence after authorities learned she lied on a financial affidavit. Diane Dalmy, 63, of Denver, was resentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in...

Dozens of people suspected of living in the country illegally were apprehended in a series of sweeps in New England this week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday. Agents arrested 58 people in raids in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut, officials said....

Kenneth Fuchs, professor of musical composition at the University of Connecticut, has received a Grammy nomination in the Best Classical Compendium category for his album “Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’/Poems of Life/Glacier/Rush.” In a phone interview Friday afternoon, Fuchs said he hopes that...

For the final time before he leaves office, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will open the Governor’s Residence for the annual holiday open house starting Friday. Gov. Malloy and First Lady Cathy Malloy will host visitors at the Prospect Avenue mansion for the next three days, with choir groups from area...

A federal appeals court says a Connecticut police officer who shot a 12-year-old deaf boy with a stun gun acted reasonably and cannot be sued by the boy's parents because of government immunity. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled Friday in favor of West Hartford officer Paul...

Projecting a financially stable year ahead for the city, Standard & Poor’s this week affirmed its A+ rating for New Britain’s bonds. The report should help keep the city’s cost of borrowing steady, and suggests municipal finances are poised to stay even. “The stable outlook reflects our view that...