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Mohegan Sun’s Comix comedy club is about to go country. This winter, the venue in the Casino of the Earth expands to become Comix Roadhouse, with live country music, mechanical bull riding, a Texas-style food menu, 30 craft beers on tap, a full bar and line dancing. The venue will present a mix...

The Hartford Yard Goats are offering up Dunkin Donuts Park ahead of Halloween as a place for kids to trick or treat. In an announcement Tuesday, they said more than 40 local businesses have signed on to hand out candy to kids 12 and under on Oct. 28. The event, spreading across the concourse of...

Arguing that city Democratic leaders were trying to “score cheap political points,” Mayor Erin Stewart on Monday vetoed renaming Paul Manafort Sr. Drive. “You don’t get to invent or rewrite history simply to suit your own political ends,” Stewart wrote in a memo Monday afternoon. Majority Leader...

Carmello Silva’s minute or so of freedom Monday morning was dirty and bumpy, and punctuated by one of those massive steel plates that construction crews use to cover holes in the road. The 28-year-old Hartford man, shackled only at the legs, slipped away from judicial marshals at the Hartford courthouse,...

An insurance company representing the private investigator whose gun was used in the death of Guilford teenager Ethan Song wants a federal court to absolve it from having to pay any potential lawsuit settlement against him. The Arch Insurance Company filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court. It...

It was a simple trade: 160 bags of heroin for two guns, including the infamous Desert Eagle, a .50-caliber pistol. Patrick Rogers arrived Friday at a shopping plaza in Waterbury with his end of the deal — the heroin — court records show. Rogers was meeting a man he had sold heroin to in the past...

The wife of former Farmington town council member Jon Landry has filed for divorce in Washington state, where she now lives with the couple’s two daughters. Landry, who turned 43 on Monday, was charged earlier this year by Newington police with harassing a young woman with whom he had an extramarital...

In February, Joan Goldstein of Monroe received a panicked call for help from her wife, Lauren Goldstein. Joan found Lauren rolled up like a ball on the floor in her office bathroom. “I have never seen her sick in 15 years,” Joan said. When Lauren couldn’t stop vomiting, Joan took her to the emergency...

After less than two years and a precipitous decline at General Electric, John Flannery has been ousted as chairman and CEO at the century-old company. Flannery, who grew up in West Hartford, took over for longtime CEO Jeff Immelt in June 2017 with the company trying to re-establish its industrial...

On a recent Friday, Dr. Harold I. Schwartz took some time to pack up decades’ worth of case files, psychiatry books, medical research and notes that fill his office at the Institute of Living. Cabinets and bookshelves line the walls of his office and reception area and continue down the hall, holding...