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A man died Sunday after a motorboat capsized on Candlewood Lake near Brookfield, according to the state environmental agency, and a second man was rescued and is "safe and unharmed.” Police officers from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, or DEEP, responded around noon Sunday...

An Avon man who police say assaulted his wife, one of his children and kicked a dog was ordered held in lieu of $700,000 bail after his arraignment Friday in Superior Court in Hartford on assault and other charges. Brendan McDonough, 40, according to the warrant for his arrest, was charged after...

A federal judge presided over a ceremony Friday in Middletown where 51 people — including six veterans — became American citizens. Local veterans groups handed out American flags to the new citizens as they registered to vote and applied for U.S. passports. Many of the new citizens said they are...

Hackers from overseas hijacked the city of West Haven’s computer systems earlier this week, holding vital information hostage until officials paid a $2,000 ransom. Officials publicly addressed the hijacking Thursday, saying: “The attack, specifically a ransomware attack, disabled 23 servers.” First...

Music and beer. For more decades than anyone cares to count these two have gone together hand-in-hand. The number of music establishments that don’t sell beer and the number of bars that don’t have some form of live music are relatively minuscule. But as craft beer has exploded in popularity, so...

The first artwork visitors see when entering the Wadsworth Atheneum’s new exhibit is a painting by Richard Oelze, which shows a group of people walking across a stark, gray no man’s land under an ominous sky. One of the last artworks is an oil by Salvador Dalí depicting a man struggling to escape...

Thanksgiving and Christmas came early Thursday to three nonprofit organizations that struggle to keep up with the growing demand for their services. The Credit Union League of Connecticut, celebrating International Credit Union Day, delivered a gift of $16,000 each to the Connecticut Food Bank,...

The next generation of Dunkin' stores is now open in two Connecticut towns. Wallingford and Simsbury are the first in the state to see the franchise’s debut since it dropped the 'Donuts' from its name. The New England staple is rebranding for the future, aiming for convenience and a more modern...

Leaders of Hartford’s faith-based institutions on Thursday praised Police Chief David Rosado’s decision to fire an officer caught on camera telling a group of black and Hispanic youth that he was “trigger happy.” “This is not who we need on the streets of Hartford to protect and serve our community,”...

A killer who preyed on teenage girls in Hartford in the 1980s and who was only brought to justice decades later has died in prison. Pedro Miranda, 61, was serving two life sentences, plus 100 years, when he died Wednesday in the hospice unit at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield....