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Jahana Hayes Leads Mary Glassman As First Votes Are Counted In 5th Congressional District Race

Jahana Hayes was leading Mary Glassman in the Democratic race for the 5th Congressional District Tuesday evening. Early returns had Hayes in the lead over Glassman with nearly 30 percent of the votes counted. Hayes, the former National Teacher of the Year, had never sought elective office before....

 

Ned Lamont Defeats Joe Ganim To Win Democratic Primary For Governor

Ned Lamont, the Greenwich Democratic business executive who was denied his party’s nomination for governor in 2010, losing in a primary to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, emerged victorious in Tuesday’s primary by trouncing Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim, according to the Associated Press. Map: Town By Town...

 

Primary: AG, Treasurer, Other Races

With ballots still being counted across the state, the party-endorsed candidates for attorney general had comfortable leads in their primary races, including the three-way race among Democrats. With 12 percent of precincts reporting, state Rep. William Tong, a commercial litigator, had 59 percent...

 

Jillian Gilchrest Declares Victory Over 12-Term Rep. Andy Fleischmann In West Hartford

Jillian Gilchrest, a former West Hartford school board member who sought to upend party norms by challenging her district’s longtime incumbent, declared victory Tuesday night over 12-term incumbent state Rep. Andrew Fleischmann for the Democratic nomination. Gilchrest was leading Fleischmann by...

 

Bob Stefanowski Holds Lead As First Votes Are Counted In GOP Race For Governor

The most crowded Republican gubernatorial primary in Connecticut history is turning into a cliffhanger, with a party that hasn’t won a statewide election since 2006 forced to wait to find out which of five candidates will be its nominee. With about 20 percent of the votes in, political newcomer...

 

Tyler Anderson Recruits 'Top Chef' Contestants And Top Connecticut Chefs For 2018 Taste Of The Nation

In his fifth year as chair for Hartford’s Taste of the Nation event, Tyler Anderson is calling upon his chef friends, near and far, to lend their culinary expertise to the fundraiser. The Sept. 30 event is a reunion of sorts for Anderson, a recent contestant on “Top Chef: Colorado,” and his fellow...

 

Polls Open In Connecticut's Hotly Contested Primaries

Republican and Democratic voters will head to the polls for primaries today to determine who will be on the ballot in November. There are many races, but much of the attention is focused on the governor’s race, where seven men are vying to replace Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who announced earlier this...

 

Residents, Community Leaders Call For 'Trigger Happy' Hartford Cop To Be Fired

A contingent of city residents, community leaders and politicians on Monday condemned Hartford police Sgt. Stephen Barone’s remarks that he was “trigger happy” and would make “a ton of money” in overtime if he had to shoot someone, and called for swift disciplinary action. “We don’t want to wait...

 

Seven Stars Cloud, Building West Hartford Tech Hub, Sees Net Loss In Second Quarter

Seven Stars Cloud Group Inc., the company behind an ambitious plan to build a global financial technology hub in West Hartford, reported a net loss of $8.6 million in its second quarter, about twice as much as it lost in the first three months of the year. The public company’s leaders have cautioned...

 

Bear Stops In At Bristol Package Store

The excitement Monday afternoon at Crazy Bruce’s wasn’t precisely “a bear walks into a bar” joke, but it came close. About 2 p.m., the liquor store at the Shop Rite Plaza got perhaps its most unusual visitor ever: A black bear. Security video of the entryway shows the midsized bear stroll from...

 

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