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A woman whose husband died in the attack on the World Trade Center asked the state Supreme Court Monday to rule that a probate judge has no authority to meddle in the use of money paid to her family from the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Carolyne Hynes has been battling the Norwalk Probate...

Guests at the original Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana restaurant may have spotted a familiar face Saturday night: Paul Giamatti. Small Bites: Dining News And Events » The New Haven-born actor, known for his work in such films as “Sideways,” “Private Parts” and “Saving Private Ryan,” enjoyed Pepe’s...

The corner of Park Street and Park Terrace, a leafy green enclave that faces the entrance of Pope Park, is the latest target for sweeping redevelopment in Hartford’s Frog Hollow neighborhood. The Mutual Housing Association of Greater Hartford, the developer behind numerous rehabilitations in that...

Written in Sharpie on the red and white balloons were messages you might find in a yearbook, inside jokes and snatches of reminiscence cryptic to all but the friends of Justin Brady, the Enfield High School junior who was stabbed to death last week. More than 100 of his friends, classmates and...

Jerry Brick and Megan Major are bobbing their heads to the music, relaxing on a sunny afternoon in their blue sports car when the police motorcycle — lights flashing — pulls up behind them. A few moments later, rookie police Officer Michael Marino is singing about Joe DiMaggio while writing out...

West Hartford police are investigating an early Saturday morning burglary at a liquor store on South Main Street. Police said that someone threw a rock through the front window of South Main Wine and Spirits around 4:30 a.m. and entered the building. They took and undetermined amount of alcohol....

State police closed Interstate 95 in Westbrook early Saturday morning after a car hit a state truck in a work zone area. Police said the accident occurred around 7:18 a.m heading southbound on I-95. The highway was closed between exits 64 and 65 and motorists were directed off the highway onto...

A Hartford Superior Court jury on Friday convicted Jesse Culbreath, 28, of first-degree manslaughter with a firearm for the 2015 killing of a man on Judson Street. Jurors, who deliberated about six hours before reaching their verdict, acquitted Culbreath of the more serious charge of murder. The...

Addressing 600 New Britain seventh-graders, Peter Roby read a list of city youngsters who went on to major success in professional sports, business and government. “They achieved great things because people believed in them and they believed in themselves,” Roby said. “People from New Britain can...

For several days the roles will be reversed in a New Britain courtroom as defense attorneys grill state prosecutors and state police detectives over their handling of documents they seized during their investigation of the killing of a UConn medical school professor and the arrest of his wife. ...