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A second lawsuit has been filed against Yale University over a 10-year-old data breach in which personal information of more than 100,000 students were obtained by hackers. Last June during a routine security review of its servers Yale officials discovered that hackers gained access to electronic...

Hartford police officer Stephen Barone has been fired for threatening a group of young people in August with deadly force, Police Chief David Rosado said Wednesday. Barone’s comments, which were filmed and circulated on Facebook, prompted a reckoning over the police department’s racial makeup and...

A Massachusetts man who sent fake white-powers letters to Donald Trump and others and also threatened police investigating Nathan Carman, imploring them to drop the case or end up “on the bottom of the ocean,” entered a guilty plea in both cases Wednesday in federal court. Daniel Frisiello, 25,...

Marijuana went on sale Wednesday morning in Canada. Don't try to bring it back to the United States, though. While marijuana is legal for recreational use in nine states and the District of Columbia, and permitted for medical use in 31 overall, it remains illegal to carry cannabis across a U.S....

On their second day of training, 14 recruits showed up at New Britain police headquarters Tuesday at 5 a.m. They wouldn’t be going home until dinnertime. They face six months of that schedule, with days spent learning everything from how write accident reports, investigate burglaries or stop suspicious-looking...

Besting some world class cities, Glassdoor rated Hartford fifth in the nation for jobs in a ranking released on Wednesday. Here's what they say about the city. Factoring all the aspects such as job openings, hiring opportunities and job satisfaction, Glassdoor, one of the largest job sites on the...

A woman’s Uber ride from Manhattan turned into a nightmare after her deranged driver kidnapped and groped her on the side of I-95 in Connecticut, authorities charged Tuesday. Harbir Parmar, 24, of Howard Beach, Queens, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for the alleged kidnapping on Feb....

A federal judge will soon determine whether his court should get involved in how the state awards enrollment to students in high-performing magnet schools throughout Connecticut. At issue is whether the lottery’s algorithm – which is designed to limit enrollment of black and Hispanic students in...

After more than half a year of being restricted to the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, Malik Naveed bin Rehman and his wife, Zahida Altaf, walked out to freedom Tuesday. A line of 50 applauding parishioners and other supporters greeted them just beyond the church steps, and bin Rehman...

A judge on Tuesday rejected Christopher Dukes’ request to have a GPS monitor affixed to his ankle removed. The 45-year-old Hartford man and head of the student conduct office at Central Connecticut State University is accused of grabbing his wife in a choke hold, taking her to the basement of their...