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Starting this month, same-day delivery will be available to Target shoppers in nearly two-thirds of the state, as the retailer competes to bring the latest in online shopping convenience to new markets. Shipt, an online marketplace company owned by Target, will bring Connecticut its first same-day...

Child-protection personnel failed to immediately start resuscitation efforts after a pregnant 16-year-old was found hanging in her room at the Solnit psychiatric center in Middletown on June 28, and failed to immediately call for emergency medical technicians to respond, inspection documents obtained...

Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen advised the public Wednesday that following a U.S. Supreme Court decision, public-sector employers may not deduct agency fees from the paychecks of workers who are not union members. He also said a union may not collect agency fees from a nonmember without...

A former Central Connecticut State University theater professor accused of urging his students to lie to police after one of them was injured in a fall has applied for a special form of probation that could allow him to avoid prosecution and a criminal record. Thomas Callery, 65, was charged last...

School vacation makes summer a hungry season for many Connecticut families. “Hunger doesn’t go on vacation,” said Susie Woerz, Plainville food pantry director. In mid-July, Woerz put out a request for cereals, snacks and other non-perishables to restock shelves depleted by increased summer needs...

The city of Hartford Thursday began cutting trees in Goodwin Park identified as being in danger of falling, nearly two days after an 11-year-old-boy was struck by a falling tree that had been flagged for removal. City officials had said that the tree that fell was identified as a problem on July...

The state Thursday is expected to file an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of the dismissal of murder charges against Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel. The chief state’s attorney’s office asked the court for a one-week extension of the deadline to file the appeal because of computer problems, Supreme...

A Plainfield man pleaded guilty Wednesday to beating his wife unconscious with a lamp at an East Hartford motel last August. Everol Anthony Masters, 30, faces eight years in prison when he is sentenced Oct. 3 for first-degree assault and three counts of risk of injury to a minor. Prosecutor Donna...

A pharmaceutical sales manager pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Wednesday to helping organize a kickback scheme that paid thousands of dollars to medical professionals in Connecticut and elsewhere who prescribed a fentanyl-based painkiller his employer manufactured. Jeffrey Pearlman, a district...

Despite the national headlines stemming from Paul Manafort’s tax fraud trial, New Britain has no plans to change the name of Paul Manafort Drive. After all, city leaders say, it’s not named after him. The street along the southern end of Central Connecticut State University was named in 1994 to...