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A Superior Court judge has denied Hartford’s motion for summary judgment in its case against the fired developers of Dunkin’ Donuts Park, a move that could throw off the city’s timetable for an expansive project in the Downtown North neighborhood. As part of the lawsuit between the city and Centerplan...

With a week to go before voters choose Connecticut’s next governor, the three leading candidates are facing off in their final televised debate from Foxwoods Resort Casino. Will everything they say be the absolute truth? Don’t bet on it. But Claim Check is on the case. Follow along as we provide...

After six years in what might be the city’s most relentlessly demanding job, Police Chief James Wardwell is retiring in January to work in corporate security. “I’ll always treasure this department and its men and women, but it’s my time,” Wardwell said Tuesday afternoon, hours after announcing...

A Hartford Superior Court jury deliberated less than 30 minutes Tuesday before finding Joseph Silva guilty of two murders in Hartford two years ago. The verdict came on the fifth day of Silva’s trial. He faced two counts of murder and a single count of murder with special circumstances. Judge David...

Two public-safety commissioners, Dora Schriro, who heads the state police, and Scott Semple, leader of the prison system, announced their departures ahead of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s final days in office. Other departures are expected. Malloy staffers call them “transitions” — a fact of political...

Connecticut’s public works earned a mediocre grade of “C-,” a civil engineers group said in a report it issued Tuesday as it took aim at the state’s roads and wastewater systems. Rail transportation earned the highest grade, a “B,” from the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers. Connecticut’s...

State officials said Tuesday that they will not appeal the recent Supreme Court decision ordering the public release of documents and journals belonging to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza. The decision to not ask the court to reconsider its ruling or to try and appeal to the U.S....

A plan by Hartford to better support young residents exposed to community gun violence is not among the winners of this year’s Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge, though the city plans to forge ahead with the program it developed as a finalist in the competition. Mayor Luke Bronin says...

Reached this spring by phone, Sean Dey told a source secretly working with federal agents that he could build out a machine gun within a few days. Dey told the source he had the parts at home to make two — a Sten or a commando — federal court records show. The source chose the commando after confirming...

The red brick buildings that line Albany Avenue and stretch 40 acres into Hartford’s North End will soon be dismantled, a first, significant step in a yearslong process to redevelop hundreds of housing units for families of mixed incomes. The 360 derelict units that make up Westbrook Village are...