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With the possibility of record cold on Thursday, organizers of the traditional Thanksgiving Day high school football games and the 82nd annual Manchester Road Race have been forced to improvise. Most of the football games scheduled for Thursday already have been shifted to Wednesday night to avoid...

New Britain schools spent about the statewide average on each pupil in 2005, but has been losing ground ever since and now ranks 168th in the state — just one notch above last. That rising gap is why the system is short of teachers, classroom aides, guidance counselors and more, according to Superintendent...

A Manchester woman who with her then-boyfriend made several trips to California to purchase large quantities of marijuana that he allegedly sold in Connecticut pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to distribute drugs and possession of drugs. Kiara Lopez, 23, faces a maximum of three years in prison...

Guilford teen Ethan Song accidentally shot himself last January with a .357 Magnum that had been stored in the bedroom closet at a friend’s home, investigators have concluded, and on Tuesday the state announced it would not file charges against the gun’s owner. In a brief report short on details...

Former Middletown Mayor Stephen T. Gionfriddo has pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to embezzlement, the U.S. Attorney said. Gionfriddo stole more than $500,000 from a Rocky Hill law firm where he worked, then stole from his brother to pay the firm back, according to a statement Tuesday from...

Kangaroo Manufacturing’s Original Super Cool Slime comes in three metallic colors, moves like a liquid but feels like a solid, and is billed as a “favorite with kids, and great for giveaways at any party.” It is also, according to the Connecticut Public Interest Research Group, highly toxic, containing...

Western Connecticut State University has canceled evening classes and activities at its main and westside campuses as police continue to search the westside campus after someone called 911 to report a man with a gun there. People at the westside campus have been sheltering in place since just before...

State Police Commissioner Dora Schriro has left the job as the state’s top law enforcement official, about two months before a new administration takes over. Schriro had announced that she was leaving in late October to make way for a new administration but had given no indication when she would...

Two of the 10 former mental-health workers arrested in a patient-abuse scandal at Whiting Forensic Hospital in Middletown have pleaded no contest to charges of cruelty to a person, a felony, and will be sentenced in January. Carl Benjamin, 40, of Hamden, entered a no-contest plea to two cruelty...

People woke early in towns across Connecticut on Tuesday to drive north across the Massachusetts border, stand in sleet and snow and watch marijuana dispensaries open their doors for the first time to recreational users. Out-of-staters hailing from Glastonbury and Middletown, West Haven and Windsor,...