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In a tiny Broad Street pizza shop where the crowd was jammed shoulder to shoulder, Malik Naveed bin Rehman and Zahida Altaf laughed, hugged friends and accepted vases of flowers Behind the counter, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal handed out plates and served cheese, pepperoni or vegetable pizza slices....

The candidates for governor have spent the last several days preparing for this afternoon’s debate, rehearsing their pitches and refining their pounces as they woo voters with weeks to go before Election Day. But this being politics, not everything the candidates say will be the truth, the whole...

Two former Newtown educators are defending the school system’s work with a young Adam Lanza in a 22-page rebuttal handed to state senators Thursday, four years after the primary report on the childhood and schooling of the Sandy Hook shooter was released. At times emotional, defensive, and highly...

So-called super PACS — political groups that can spend unlimited amounts while sometimes shielding the ultimate source of their funds — have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into U.S. elections, with most of that largesse aimed at high-impact national races. But some of that outside cash...

The family of a Waterbury man killed when his car was struck by Katherine Berman, the wife of ESPN personality Chris Berman, last May has settled a lawsuit against the bar where she was drinking beforehand. The lawsuit by the family of Edward Bertulis against the owners of Market Place Kitchen...

Modern Apizza in New Haven is the third best pizzeria in America, according to a recent TripAdvisor ranking. The top pizzerias and cities for pizza were determined by “taking into account the quality and quantity of reviews and great pizza reviews, with more weight to reviews from the past year,”...

When he was 3 months old, Alex Alpharaoh was taken on a life-changing journey from Guatemala to the United States. Thirty-six years later, he’s travelling around the country to share his story of being a Dreamer. “I’ve been a writer my whole life, a poet since I was a child,” Alpharaoh says by...

As Superintendent Nancy Sarra oversees a reorganization of the city’s school system, the board of education has concluded she’s doing a good job. A new evaluation of Sarra’s job performance concludes she did well in getting the 10,000-student system to adapt to a major overhaul in the past year....

A Waterbury teen has sued a teacher and the city's school board, alleging she was “mocked and shamed” for not standing during the Pledge of Allegiance, a protest she said was over racial discrimination in the country. The suit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court, alleges a First Amendment violation...

Forty years ago Saturday, the Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga was cruising north on Chesapeake Bay when at 9:06 p.m. it was struck by a 521-foot Argentine coal freighter. The Cuyahoga, the oldest ship then in commission in the Coast Guard or Navy, was a training vessel for the Coast Guard Officer Candidate...