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An overhaul of Farmington Avenue, road repairs along Front Street and a set of housing projects in Hartford’s North End will get a lift with public funds approved Wednesday by the state bond commission. The group authorized $4.5 million for the addition of bike lanes, for sidewalk and traffic signal...

For the second time in four months, conditions inside the state’s psychiatric center for children in Middletown have been found to place patients in “immediate jeopardy.” The latest finding by public health inspectors follows the June 28 suicide of a pregnant 16-year-old girl at the Albert J. Solnit...

The gallery owner who was arrested after he dropped an 800-pound steel sculpture of a bent, burnt heroin spoon in front of Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford applied for accelerated rehabilitation Wednesday during a brief court appearance. The judge scheduled a hearing for Monday afternoon...

Congress has finished work on a final defense authorization bill that boosts military spending and provides more dollars for Connecticut defense contractors. The defense bill increases military spending to $716 billion for 2019, raising the number of Sikorsky made helicopters the Pentagon can buy...

A new pilot program to track drug overdoses in Hartford found that in May and June, emergency responders administered the opioid overdose antidote naloxone to 66 people. And that was only in the two-thirds of the city covered by American Medical Response ambulances. In the fall, the Connecticut...

When Claim Check evaluated Republican outsider David Stemerman’s ad noting that Republican outsider Bob Stefanowski was once a registered Democrat and had donated to Democratic candidates, we noted that the ad might prompt Stefanowski to hit back – since Stemerman is also a former Democrat who...

At the new Glastonbury Chick-fil-A, where a neighboring McDonald’s sign caused controversy last week, a different sign is plastered to the store’s windows. “Sorry, we are not open yet!” it reads. “We look forward to serving you July 26th!!” The franchise, located at 2941 Main St., will have its...

After declaring his innocence for the last time, Michael Gaston was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison for robbing and then gunning down Marshall Wiggins, a father of six, outside his East Hartford home two years ago. In an hour-long hearing, Superior Court Judge Frank M. D’Addabo Jr. sent...

Allowing inmates to stare at computer tablet screens for hours each day may be just the ticket for creating calm, orderly cellblocks, prison officials say. But tablets, growing in popularity in prisons nationwide, also can help inmates advance their education, connect with family and prepare them...

A long awaited action by the legislature has afforded parents of children with autism a level of consumer protection they never had before, and has granted to the behavior specialists in the field a degree a professionalism and responsibility that they have been crying out for since the 1990s. ...