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The brochure Mayor Erin Stewart included with tax bills last year violated state election law because it was too similar to a campaign mailing, the state Elections Enforcement Commission has decided. The commission fined Stewart $500 in November and concluded that she must follow election law more...

The father of a boy who was killed in the 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut has filed another defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorists who accused him of being an actor. Lenny Pozner's 6-year-old son Noah was among 26 people shot to death in the school on Dec....

Hartford has long been lauded for its legacy as the insurance capital. But just how big is the insurance business in Connecticut these days? According to the latest “2018 Connecticut Insurance Market Brief,” prepared by PwC and Connecticut Insurance & Financial Services, there’s still a lot to...

Isaiah Lindsay, then 17, was in the midst of a psychotic break due to schizophrenia when he plunged an eight-inch knife into his great uncle’s chest, killing him a year ago, a doctor testified Tuesday. The Hartford teen, who is now 18, is on trial for murder before a three-judge panel in Superior...

Hartford has long been lauded for its legacy as the insurance capital. But just how big is the insurance business in Connecticut these days? According to the latest “2018 Connecticut Insurance Market Brief,” prepared by PwC and Connecticut Insurance & Financial Services, there’s still a lot to...

When 11 insurance startups sat down to work for the first time in the Stilts Building last January, they held the hopes of an anxious industry. They’d come to Hartford for the city’s inaugural, and untested, accelerator program, the Hartford InsurTech Hub. The second group, announced this week,...

A New Hampshire judge will decide this week whether Nathan Carman violated a protective order when he made public Windsor police investigative records, which revealed Carman’s grandfather had spoken to his mistress on the phone the night he was shot to death in 2013. Carman’s three aunts — Valerie...

Target announced Tuesday that it is bringing a scaled-down version of its store to Bishops Corner. “As we continue to reach more guests across the country, we’re excited to open our first small-format store in Connecticut to provide a convenient, one-stop shopping experience for families and residents...

Each holiday season, a Christmas tree, a menorah and a Nativity scene are installed on the town green in New Haven. This year those Jewish and Christian installations will be joined by an exhibit that celebrates those who don’t identify with any religion. Yale Humanist Community will install a...

For years, residents along Columbia Street and Park Terrace, two historic roads nestled in Hartford’s Frog Hollow neighborhood, have hauled their trash out onto alleyways pocked with broken pavement and potholes — a symbol of decades of use with little upkeep. City trucks hesitate to drive over...