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State police investigating the drowning death of heavy metal star Oliver Herbert in Stafford Springs have examined a will signed by Herbert a week before his death at a Hartford car dealership, multiple sources close to the probe said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The town’s emergency personnel will get a new communications system and Avon High School athletes will get a new synthetic turf field in the fall after voters approved both measures at a referendum Wednesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

When student athletes, firefighters and Girl Scouts converge Friday on Central Connecticut State University, they’ll somberly honor the anniversary of the Sandy Hook mass murder — and do something more.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Corina Zukowski, the 25-year-old Waterford native stabbed to death Monday night at the Starlight Inn in East Lyme, had decided to end her relationship with her boyfriend of two years, Avery Hallbrooks, 28, according to family members and police.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez will retire from her seat in Hartford in October, the federal judiciary announced Wednesday. Martinez is one of eight federal magistrates in Connecticut, three of whom are retired but continue to work when called back on an as needed basis.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Sandy Hook Promise released a chilling new public service announcement this week that shows the lead-up to a school shooting from the perspective of the shooter. The video, called “Point of View,” is set in a high school as students are focused on a student body president election.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

With nine license approvals announced Tuesday, Connecticut has doubled its number of medical marijuana dispensaries while widening the geographical footprint of the fast-growing program. The new facilities will span from Windham to Torrington and down to New Haven and Stamford, bringing the total...

After sifting through feedback from hundreds of homeowners with failing foundations, the Connecticut Foundation Solutions Indemnity Company has updated its application process guidelines. The new application launch date is Jan.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

In case you hadn’t been able to surmise from all the coverage it received in various places, including this one, the Connecticut music scene had a fantastic year for new music.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A Hartford sex offender who attacked a teenage girl and later told police he planned to sexually assault her was ordered committed Monday to the maximum-security Whiting Forensic Hospital. Thomas J.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share