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Be honest — it would be a lot nicer if someone else did the Thanksgiving cooking and cleanup. Consider feasting at one of these Connecticut restaurants on Nov. 22, or choosing a prepared meal to enjoy in the comfort of your own home. Abigail’s Grille & Wine Bar, 4 Hartford Road, Simsbury, is open...

Texas de Brazil opens for dinner Nov. 1 at Farmington’s Westfarms Mall, marking the first Connecticut location of the Brazilian steakhouse. The 6,500-square-foot restaurant with seating for 200 offers authentic churrasco with rodizio-style service, with grilled meats like Brazilian picanha (sirloin),...

New Britain High School went into lockdown Thursday morning after a student told a classmate of bringing in a weapon because of another student’s comment that had alarmed people the day before. Police and school officials are still investigating, but Mayor Erin Stewart said at mid-morning that...

Money for the arts Connecticut Office of the Arts is accepting applications for the Connecticut Arts Endowment program, fiscal year 2019. Applicants must be Connecticut 501(c)(3) arts organizations that have raised more than $15,000 in private-sector contributions, from non-governmental sources,...

Bartlett Sher is known for finding strong thematic connections between the stories from classic Broadway musicals and the world as it is today. He does this subtly, without hitting audiences over the head. He respects what made the shows popular in the first place. He maintains a balance between...

The Diocese of Bridgeport said Wednesday it has paid $52.5 million to settle 156 allegations of priest sexual abuse since 1953 and that it is still paying eight priests who abused children. It is the first time that the diocese has given an overview of how much the priest-abuse scandal has cost....

The parents of a 4-year-old boy who died in a hot car in July, and a 2-year-old boy who was in the car but survived, were charged Wednesday with a variety of crimes. Dusan Jenkins, 34, the boys’ father, was charged with criminally negligent homicide, two counts of second-degree reckless endangerment...

Infamous gangster James “Whitey” Bulger had survived at least one prison murder attempt. But his luck ran out if - as authorities suspect - Springfield hitman Fotios “Freddie” Geas was behind the horrific beating that left him dead and barely recognizable in a high-security West Virginia prison....

The major-party candidates for governor poured nearly $5 million into television advertising in the last month, flooding the airwaves in a close race that ends at the ballot box next Tuesday. Seventy percent of that TV money was spent by Democrat Ned Lamont, who has outspent his Republican challenger...

The Connecticut Childbirth & Women’s Center in Danbury is a 50-minute drive from Evelyn DeGraf’s home in Westchester. Pregnant with her second child, the 37-year-old didn’t hesitate to make the drive—she wanted her birth to be attended by a midwife, not a doctor. DeGraf believed midwifery care...