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Waving a white flag of surrender after the failed raid on Harpers Ferry, Aaron Dwight Stevens was riddled with bullets to the face, neck and chest area. The handsome 28-year-old, who lost his baritone voice in the October 1859 crossfire, was hundreds of miles from home. But he’d long deserted Norwich...

As his girlfriend lay curled up in a ball on the bedroom floor of their East Haven apartment on Thanksgiving Day in 2011, Danueal Drayton pummeled her with punches before strangling her until she blacked out, court records show. “Swing after swing after swing to the point my body went into shock...

The two Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor, Susan Bysiewicz and Eva Bermudez Zimmerman, clashed sharply at a debate Thursday night over issues of both style and substance. Bermudez Zimmerman, a union organizer who has never before sought statewide office, was far more aggressive, repeatedly...

The caskets arrived in Honolulu this week, 55 of them, draped in American flags and containing the remains of men who fought against the North Koreans 65 years ago. With them comes a flicker of hope among those whose brothers, husbands and friends were swallowed by a distant war and a foe that...

The Trump administration has unveiled what could be its most environmentally consequential rollback, dramatically weakening auto emission and fuel efficiency standards. And there are few places that would feel that consequence more than Connecticut. With motor vehicles contributing about two-thirds...

After nearly two years of digging and blasting through bedrock with dynamite, the Metropolitan District boasted a significant construction milestone in the $2 billion Clean Water Project this week — the lowering and construction of a 400-foot-long machine that will dig a 4-mile long tunnel from...

When Amanda Kellam and her husband began to plan their move from South Carolina to Texas with their three young children, they perused websites to find a company that would transport the family’s belongings on the nearly 1,000-mile trek west. They came across Flagship Van Lines, a Guilford, Conn.-based...

There is a chasm between the state’s account of the violent death of inmate J’Allen Jones, and that of his lawyer and family, who made public a lawsuit on Thursday that alleges brutality and excessive force against corrections officers, but certain fundamental facts are not disputed: Jones, 31,...

Pope Francis on Thursday ordered a revision to the Catechism of the Catholic Church designed to emphasize that the death penalty is “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” But what does this change mean for the average Roman Catholic? Here’s what you...

It has all the makings of an episode of “Criminal Minds.” The arrests this week of two men in connection with the 14-year-old slaying of Paul Sweetman has revived interest in a mysterious religious cult that attracted hundreds of followers in center Connecticut during the 1970, 80s and 90s. Here’s...