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In Hartford, a bulge in the road is a commodity. Speed humps slow traffic, making streets safer for homeowners and less convenient for the lead-footed. And by the end of September, the city will have about 100 more of them. Hartford’s Department of Public Works received a $500,000 grant from the...

Seven Stars Cloud, we hardly knew you. The New York- and Beijing-based financial technology corporation is still planning to open its innovation headquarters in West Hartford, as it announced in early July, but under a new name — Ideanomics. The public company announced the new business name on...

A man and woman face human trafficking, promoting prostitution and conspiracy charges after Windsor police say they caught them at a local hotel with a woman who said she was being held against her will. Jerome Edison, 47, and Erica “Butter” Spencer, 28, were taken into custody at the Marriott...

Connecticut’s economic future has been a constant talking point among gubernatorial candidates hoping to convince voters of their plans to foster job growth, lower taxes and invigorate the state’s main industries. Now, the Connecticut Business and Industry Association is launching its own campaign,...

Katherine Berman, the wife of ESPN personality Chris Berman, was served alcohol even though she was intoxicated shortly before a car crash that killed her and a Waterbury man, a lawsuit filed against a Woodbury bar charges. The family of Edward Bertulis, killed in the 2017 crash, filed the lawsuit...

The artist who created an 800-pound steel sculpture of a bent, burnt heroin spoon that was placed in front of the Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford can get his sculpture back, a judge has ruled. Boston-based artist Domenic Esposito attended a hearing in Superior Court in Stamford Monday for...

One of the men charged with murder in the 2004 slaying of the self-proclaimed “chief apostle” of an infamous religious cult known as The Work that was active in central Connecticut from the 1970s through the 1990s waived a probable cause hearing and pleaded not guilty Monday. Rudy Hannon, 72, is...

Guitar Under the Stars — an annual event of open-air acoustic guitar music that pulls from classical, Spanish, Latin and world traditions — celebrates 25 years on Sept. 8, on the outdoor quad of the University of St. Joseph’s campus in West Hartford. Hartford-based guitarist, performer and educator...

Standing outside gates that bore the same name as the gun used to kill their son, Patricia and Manuel Oliver delivered an emotional coda to a four-day march for gun control reform in Massachusetts, demanding outside the Smith & Wesson headquarters in Springfield that the gun-maker stop building...

Lawrence J. DeNardis, former congressman and president of the University of New Haven, died Friday after a short hospitalization in New Haven. He was 80. DeNardis, of Hamden, made careers in both academia and politics. “Larry’s legacy is embedded in the University of New Haven,” said University...