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Sunday’s drizzle broke long enough to cheer the 500 or so people who risked the weather to celebrate the start of Hanukkah at Chabad House of Greater Hartford’s annual menorah lighting at Blue Back Square in West Hartford Center. “We prayed really hard for the weather,” Rabbi Shaya Gopin said. ...

He was born in Massachusetts and established his political career in Texas, but between the Bay State and the oil fields of Midland, George H.W. Bush was raised in the tony Connecticut town of Greenwich, the son of a U.S. senator. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died late Friday...

A Hartford Superior Court jury on Friday acquitted a Bloomfield man in the November 2016 shooting of a man on Blue Hills Avenue. Kwanze Fluker, 22, had faced a single count of first-degree assault. A security video showed much of the incident, but the shooter was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and...

Richard Holloway, 27, survived two tours in Afghanistan with the Connecticut Army National Guard, but died of a gunshot wound to the chest on a Hartford street after an argument with another man. Holloway’s killer, Jesse Culbreath, 28, was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison for the 2015 crime....

One thousand students from across Connecticut donned their blazers, neck ties and dress shoes and stepped into the world of a United Nations delegate Friday afternoon at the University of Hartford. The 66th annual Model United Nations Conference drew students from 35 different schools for two days...

City leaders are again trying to persuade a judge to allow them to develop on properties surrounding Hartford’s minor league baseball stadium, despite a lawsuit that has stalled new construction on the parcels. Officials on Friday filed a motion for injunctive relief, asking the court to order...

How does a fast-talking, awesome Broadway show — a hip-hop history of the American revolution — still going gangbusters, known around the world, immortal and beloved, find itself in Hartford in December? The national tour of the musical theater sensation “Hamilton” finally arrives at The Bushnell...

Don’t have “Hamilton” tickets? You could have a shot at two of them for just $10 each in the Bushnell's daily lottery starting Dec. 9, the Bushnell announced Friday. Forty tickets will be available for all but one of the performances of “Hamilton,” which runs at the Bushnell Dec. 11 to 30. The...

Whiting Forensic Hospital has apparently withdrawn a request to move Stephen Morgan — found not guilty by reason of insanity in the killing of Wesleyan student Johanna Justin-Jinich in 2009 — to a less secure environment where he could gain greater freedoms and go on escorted trips to the Middletown...

Connecticut's congressional delegation is seeking an infusion of federal assistance to the towns and cities hardest hit by rainstorms in late September that flooded roads, destroyed bridges and caused more than $6 million damages. In a letter to President Donald Trump Friday, the delegation urged...