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Hip-hop artist Kamaiyah will pay a $50 fine after pleading guilty Monday to creating a public disturbance in May at Bradley International Airport. Kamaiyah Johnson, of Marina Delray, Calif., had been charged with interfering with an officer and second-degree breach of peace after the May 11 incident...

Popular Massachusetts-based Trillium Brewing, with locations in Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood and Canton, has announced plans to cross state lines and open a Connecticut brewery in North Stonington. “This summer we bought a beautiful farm in North Stonington, CT, less than two hours drive from...

Just when it seemed that nothing could unite Ned Lamont and Bob Stefanowski, who differ on taxes, tolls and the minimum wage and Donald Trump, there is something — a shared loathing for the state Department of Motor Vehicles. The Democratic and Republican gubernatorial foes are both seeking to...

Five Connecticut nursing homes have been fined for violations that jeopardized residents’ safety. The state Department of Public Health (DPH) fined Amberwoods of Farmington $9,060 following an incident in which a resident threatened to slit another resident’s throat with a butter knife. On Feb....

Taxes — raising them, lowering them, expanding them, eliminating them — are destined to be a constant theme in this year’s race for governor, and Republican Bob Stefanowski has hit his Democratic opponent hard on the topic, airing videotaped remarks in which Ned Lamont expresses a willingness to...

Nearly 400 people stood in line outside The Bushnell Saturday morning awaiting tickets to see ‘Hamilton’ in Hartford. The line stretched down Capitol Avenue and wrapped around to Clinton Street. Greg Packer drove from Long Island Friday morning and stood in line over 24 hours to be the first person...

Lawyers for Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, the 70-year-old Burlington woman charged with killing her husband, UConn Medical School Professor Pierluigi Bigazzi, have asked a judge to bar the public from a court hearing where they will seek to have the murder charge dismissed. Defense attorneys Brian Karpe...

Concluding that attorney Jodi Zils Gagne misused clients’ money and tried to conceal what she’d done, a Superior Court judge has suspended her law license. Zils Gagne, who served on Bristol’s city council until last November, won’t be allowed to practice law for five years, Judge Julia DiCocco...

Hartford leaders filed a motion Friday to bring to a head a long-simmering dispute over control of the properties surrounding Dunkin’ Donuts Park. As part of the lawsuit between the city and Centerplan Construction Co., the fired developer of the original Downtown North project, Hartford officials...

The CTrail Hartford Line, a commuter train that launched in mid-June, saw about 69,000 passenger trips during its first six weeks of regular operation, state officials said Friday. The train, which runs from New Haven to Springfield, logged 19,767 passenger trips between June 18 and June 30, and...