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Mary Glassman and Jahana Hayes, jockeying for a place on the general election ballot in Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District, faced one another in Newtown on Sunday in a debate marked by few ideological differences. Instead, both Glassman and Hayes tried to brand herself as uniquely suited...

Elizabeth Rodriguez huddled with her family Friday afternoon near the yellow police tape that was keeping them out of their apartments on Putnam Street. Rodriguez was one of about 65 people evacuated Thursday after part of a vacant building collapsed around the corner on Park Street. No one was...

Facebook on Thursday levied a 30-day ban on the personal account of Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who has called the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that killed 26 people a hoax. The penalty from the social media giant comes after Jones — known for his right-wing Infowars network —...

After 13 years, Planned Parenthood is closing its satellite facility at the Hospital of Central Connecticut. But the nonprofit provider of reproductive health services emphasized that it will still offer education and training services in New Britain, and will continue looking for new space in...

An Old Lyme man involved in a shootout with state police at the Florence Griswold Museum 18 years ago and now currently on probation is fighting extradition from Vermont after he was arrested in Brattleboro on aggravated assault charges. Van Schryver , 36, was arrested last week by Brattleboro...

The latest in a lengthening line of prisoner-death lawsuits, filed in federal court Thursday by the mother of a 19-year-old inmate who died of an undiagnosed lung infection, contains statements from the correction department’s former medical director that health care behind prison walls was routinely...

Halfway through the summer and you haven’t got to the beach yet? Connecticut can be tricky that way. It’s easy enough to get to the big state beaches, but the smaller town beaches can be hard to figure out. Some have argued the complicated rules are designed to keep folks from out-of-town away....

The first shock came when immigration agents separated Maria De Bastos from her epileptic and severely autistic grandson and flew him a thousand miles away. The second unfolded more slowly, in a Texas detention center where De Bastos was incarcerated after seeking asylum for herself and her grandson,...

The State Bond Commission this week approved a contentious, $10 million study on the feasibility of electronic tolling. The study, backed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, was approved over objections from two Republicans and the Democratic state comptroller, Kevin Lembo. Several gubernatorial candidates...

Forty five years ago, Janice Pockett hopped on her bicycle and headed down Rhodes Road in search of a butterfly, only to never be seen again. Her name would forever become a mantra to parents in Eastern Connecticut who would warn their children, “remember what happened to Janice Pockett.” On Thursday,...