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Chaz West was only seven days away from completing three years of probation for an assault conviction when New Britain police arrested him on a misdemeanor larceny charge. West, 28, had done well on probation, followed the rules, had a job and was on his way to getting his life back together. But...

Matt DeRienzo will assume a newly created role as the vice president of news and digital content at Hearst Connecticut Media Group, the company announced Monday. With 25 years of experience as a writer, editor and publisher, DeRienzo will oversee the editors of Hearst Connecticut Media Group’s...

Latania Florence Mathews was homeless and desperate when she walked into the Webster Bank branch on Park Road in West Hartford on April 6 and told a teller she needed at least $500. The 52-year-old woman had no criminal record, but a history of mental illness. She would later tell police she was...

Charges of sexual abuse against former faculty members, leveled by alumni still traumatized 30 years later, have prompted a string of elite private schools in Connecticut to commission reports on what one lawsuit describes as, “a circle of silence.” At Choate, at Loomis Chaffee, at the Hotchkiss...

James Comey, whose handling of some of the FBI’s most delicate political investigations earned him the ire of President Donald Trump and Democratic Party leadership alike, is coming to UConn Monday. He’ll speak at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts at 7 p.m., and sit afterwards for a...

A Waterbury man killed when his plane went down in Long Island Sound on Saturday owned more than 12 other planes, two of which were involved in crashes that seriously injured one person and killed another, federal records show. Authorities identified the owner and occupant of the plane that crashed...

Aristotle taught us that nature abhors a vacuum. But political candidates love them — at least in the platforms of their rivals, where a plan that’s light on specifics allows for filling the void with endless hypothetical mayhem. That is what we have seen in a number of ads from Democratic gubernatorial...

Paul Ritter, a pastor from North Carolina who championed the poor and the elderly in his adopted city for half a century, died on Oct. 8. An obituary attributed his death to cancer. He was 82. Ritter came to Hartford from his native North Carolina in 1969, taking an assistant pastor post at Bethel...

A second former student of the exclusive Hotchkiss School in Salisbury has alleged that former English teacher Roy G. “Uncle Roy” Smith Jr. drugged and sexually assaulted him following a period of blatant grooming, during which Smith inappropriately touched the 15-year-old student even as Smith...

A second investigation into allegations that faculty and staff sexually abused students at Wallingford’s prestigious Choate Rosemary Hall accuses three more adults of misconduct and found additional instances of misconduct by people named in a report released last year. The new report, completed...