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Before the weather takes a turn for the chilly, Parkville is giving Hartford one more chance to celebrate summer with all of the food, music and arts the off-beat neighborhood is known for. The free community block party will take place Saturday along Arbor and Park streets and Bartholomew Avenue,...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and UConn president Susan Herbst laid out on Wednesday the contours of UConn’s freshman class, the last to enroll under their stewardship and the largest in school history. UConn fielded a record number of applicants to the class of 2022— 38,000 — and freshman entering the...

The biggest incoming freshmen class in University of Connecticut history begins the fall semester next week, and the approximately 5,500 students bring some impressive statistics with them, the school announced Wednesday. Here’s a quick look at the UConn Class of 2022: 38,000: The number of students...

Ex-Farmington Town Council member Jon Landry — accused of harassing a young woman with whom he had an extramarital relationship for years under the alias “Jason Davis” — had his case continued Wednesday to Oct. 1. Landry made a brief appearance in Superior Court in New Britain. Landry was arrested...

Sgt. John Chapman, a Windsor Locks native who died a hero in Afghanistan, will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously Wednesday afternoon from President Donald Trump in a White House ceremony. Sixteen years after dying on Takur Ghar mountain in Afghanistan, Chapman will receive the nation’s highest...

Black patients who are prescribed opioids for chronic pain are more likely than whites to be tested for illegal drug use, and to lose their prescriptions when they test positive, a new Yale report shows. The findings were based on a Yale University-led analysis of more than 15,000 patients prescribed...

Bristol has a special reason to look forward to the end of this summer: The annual Mum Festival will be under way when the autumn solstice arrives. The 57th annual Mum Festival is scheduled to run from Sept. 20 to 23 at the field near the former school at 70 Memorial Boulevard, and this year it...

Durham’s Greenbacker family, which sold off their dairy cows earlier this year because of plunging milk prices, will be one of the Connecticut farm families featured in a video created for September’s Farm Aid concert in Hartford. The Sept. 22 event will be the first Farm Aid fundraiser ever held...

A California man described by a prosecutor as “the main suspect in an ongoing fraud investigation” into the theft of $7 million in computer equipment from Dell Computers was denied a special form of probation that could have allowed him to avoid prosecution and a criminal record. The state will...

For a while on Tuesday afternoon, Muzzy Field’s outfield looked like a pencil garden, with hundreds upon hundreds of pencils sticking up from the turf. At the Mayor’s Back to School Pencil Hunt, though, that scene didn’t last long. Perhaps 100 kindergartners and first-graders scrambled through...