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With tears welling up in their eyes, hundreds gathered outside one of New England’s oldest synagogues on Sunday to mourn the 11 killed and pray for the six wounded in an attack at a Pittsburgh synagogue a day earlier. “Here we are standing together to honor the memory of those whose lives were...

Jahana Hayes and Ayanna Pressley are poised to make history because of who they are. They want to be judged by what they do. Hayes and Pressley are on the cusp of becoming the first African-American women to represent their states in Congress. If Hayes defeats her Republican challenger and captures...

Sometime during her 20-year career in financial services, and later as founder and CEO of her own startup, Sheryl O’Connor resigned herself to being the only woman in every room. But in Hartford, at least, O’Connor has found herself feeling less and less out of place as a female entrepreneur, something...

U.S. Senate candidates Chris Murphy and Matthew Corey clashed Friday over taxes, immigration, foreign affairs and the fate of the Supreme court in their sole debate of the election. Murphy, the Democratic incumbent, and Corey, his Republican challenger, sparred for nearly 25 minutes at the studios...

With the help of volunteers, a dozen city hall workers and 120 gallons of paint, a stretch of Jubilee Street on Friday became perhaps the world’s largest honeycomb mural. “It’s something for this neighborhood. It’s New Britain beautification — it’s Experience the New,” Mayor Erin Stewart said as...

Sergio Correa, the violent felon charged with killing three people and then setting their Griswold home on fire last December, implicated himself in the crime in conversations with a close friend, according to the warrant for his arrest. Correa, 27, and his sister Ruth Correa, 24, each face three...

Federal authorities Friday arrested a longtime Connecticut resident in connection with the 1987 abduction of his toddler son, now an adult who has been living in the state under the mistaken impression that his mother had died decades ago. Hailee R. DeSouza, 66, whose previous name was Allan Mann...

One of the smallest, oddest and least-studied fish in Long Island Sound may be playing a role in attracting one of the world’s largest ocean creatures to the waters along Connecticut’s coastline. The tiny fish is called a northern sand lance or sand eel, and experts say it could be one of the reasons...

A state Senate candidate who is seeking a seat in Hartford at time of intense focus on the issue of violence against women, has had four domestic-related arrests, including a charge of a violating a restraining order that his ex-wife had obtained against him. David W. Coderre, the Republican nominee,...

A giant sculpture of a bent, burnt heroin spoon, which was illegally unloaded in front of the Stamford headquarters of Purdue Pharma in June, was placed temporarily in front of the Massachusetts State House on Friday and given as a gift to the state’s Attorney General Maura T. Healey to thank her...