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Hartford City Council Will Vote To Ban Sale Of Tobacco To People Under 21 In City

Hartford is poised to become the latest city in the nation to ban the sale of tobacco products to people younger than 21. City council members say they have mustered enough support to green-light an ordinance that would halt the practice. They are expected to vote on the proposal Monday. Six states...

 

10 Days Of Freedom Costs Prison Escapee An Extra Four Years

Ten days of freedom — spent mostly running from police — has cost Jerry Mercado an extra four years in prison. The Hartford man had a year to go on a three-year sentence for burglary when he decided to grab onto a vehicle and escape from Carl Robinson Correctional Institution in Enfield on Jan....

 

House Speaker Announces New Legislative Study of Connecticut Tourism

Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz said he is forming a new legislative commission that will study the state’s tourism industry and make recommendations next year on the most effective way to spend Connecticut’s tourism funding. Aresimowicz announced the Speaker’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Tourism...

 

Infosys Moving Into Downtown Hartford's Goodwin Square Building

Infosys has signed a lease for three floors of the Goodwin Square building in downtown Hartford and begun transforming the space into offices for its regional hub here, an executive of the India-based software company said Tuesday. Goodwin Square, a 30-story office tower at 225 Asylum St., is the...

 

State Places Yale Doctor on Probation for Alcohol Abuse

The state Medical Examining Board Tuesday placed a Yale Cancer Center doctor’s license on probation for five years, saying his excessive abuse of alcohol affects his ability to practice as a physician. The board accepted a consent order that said Dr. Harris E. Foster Jr. abused alcohol to excess...

 

Naugatuck Police Seek Information On Disgraced Priest Arther Perrault's 1965 Stint At Former St. Francis School

With fugitive priest Arthur Perrault jailed in New Mexico on aggravated sexual abuse charges, Naugatuck police are now looking into the accused pedophile’s brief tenure at the former St. Francis Parochial School, where he was assigned for a few months in 1965. Perrault, 80, who was born in Connecticut,...

 

WWE's 'Crown Jewel' Match In Riyadh, Relationship With Saudi Royalty, Under A Cloud After Dissident Disappears

WWE, the Stamford wrestling company, is under pressure to reconsider a match scheduled for Nov. 2 in Saudi Arabia, whose leaders are being pressed to explain how a dissident vanished after entering a Saudi embassy in Turkey. WWE is led by the McMahons, a family of wrestling impresarios that extends...

 

Bristol: Well Contamination Was No Threat To Drinking Water

As Bristol’s water utility plans for repairs, a well that tested positive for E. coli last week will remain out of service, officials said this week. The water department emphasized that the public water supply was never comprised; the test showed contamination only in one supply of raw water that...

 

Claim Check: Hatfield Ad For AG Isn't False. But It Isn't True Either.

If eight years of scrutinizing political ads has taught us anything, it’s that partisans often see campaign spots in black and white: Seeing their own ads as above reproach so long as the truth is merely bent and not broken, and their opponents’ pitches as wholly scurrilous and false if they contain...

 

Comey Blasts Trump, And A Wider Degeneration of Leadership, In UConn Speech

James Comey, who led the FBI until he was fired abruptly last May, offered in a speech at UConn Monday his recollections of some of the tensest, most speculated-about moments in recent American history, including discussions with former president Barack Obama over whether to publish evidence of...

 

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