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The hard-partying surrogate son of a wealthy Manhattan diamond dealer was quickly convicted Friday of cruelly killing a stranger during a ghoulish night of drugs and violence. A mix of cheers and sobs filled the Manhattan courtroom when the jury forewoman declared James Rackover was guilty of second-degree...

Matt Gianquinto,, a self-described “lapsed Catholic,” joined more than 250 other participants at Shabbat services at the Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation in Simsbury Friday evening in a show of solidarity following last week’s deadly attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue. “I’m grateful this community...

Mothers United Against Violence, a grassroots organization that works to prevent violence, and advocates for and assists victims of violent crime in the capital city, is marking its 15th anniversary with a fundraising dinner on Nov. 15 at the Hartford Hilton. Mothers United is best known for its...

A driver for a portable toilet company pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree sexual assault and other charges in connection with an attack on a woman who was running along the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail in Avon three years ago. Luis Ortiz, 32, had his case called in for trial Friday and decided...

Most political observers in New Britain are focused on the 24th House District race between Rick Lopes and Sharon Beloin-Saavedra, but three other legislative seats are also on the ballot Tuesday. In all three districts, Democratic incumbents are looking for re-election. Republicans are fielding...

As the state police open an internal investigation into the actions of a state trooper who questioned Republican legislative candidate Ernestine Holloway as she canvassed in Middlefield last week, two of her former campaign workers are refuting her allegation that the van they were in when stopped...

A Georgia man used SnapChat to solicit gun sales in the Bridgeport area, routinely traveling up the East Coast on short notice to close firearms deals, federal authorities said. Jivon “Jay-O The Great” Johnson, 31, was indicted on a federal gun charge following an investigation by local police...

Five months after Lydia Tirillo was gunned down in the street, Hartford police have charged a city man with the killing. Byron Perry, 26, was charged with murder and carrying a pistol without a permit Thursday when he was taken into custody by police not far from where Tirillo was killed the night...

Jean Keating’s family-owned drug store in Granby has filled prescriptions and counseled the sick for nearly 70 years, surviving economic malaise, financial meltdowns and upheavals in the health care industry. Granby Pharmacy now faces its newest threat, Keating says: the blockbuster $69 billion...

On the first Sabbath after the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh that left 11 congregants dead, Jewish community leaders nationwide have invited friends and neighbors of all faiths to join their services as a rebuke to fear. For two congregations on either side of a residential...