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TORRINGTON - A total of 11 people from two families were displaced early this morning when a fire heavily damaged the three-family house they were living in at 102 Brookside Ave.

NAUGATUCK — Call it a way to boost sales; legal protection; or genuine concern for customers, but at 66 Church, a bar which promotes itself as a cozy, local hangout, the owner is paying for the latest fad in transportation to make sure drinkers get home safe.

HARTFORD — Nearly 1,800 workers have been separated from state service between layoffs and retirements since Gov. Dannel P. Malloy moved in April to cut the state workforce.

GOSHEN — The fair season got underway Saturday with the Litchfield County 4-H Fair beginning a two-day stand featuring the work of its young members.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For eight summer nights, there were two starkly different visions of America.

WATERBURY — More than 200 basketball players, coaches and Waterbury residents gathered at the Police Athletic League to partake in the Community Tabernacle Outreach Center's second annual Hoops for Help tournament on Saturday.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal appeals court has upheld the petty misdemeanor arrest of an Albuquerque student accused of repeatedly disrupting his middle-school class with loud burps.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — An important district in Afghanistan's southern poppy-growing province of Helmand has fallen under Taliban control after heavy fighting that killed around 17 police and wounded up to 10 others, an official said on Saturday.

SOUTHINGTON — According to a spokesperson for the Hartford Hospital, a 26-year-old woman who is the daughter of a city alderwoman has died.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators say risk remains heavy in large loans made by banks and other financial institutions, though lending standards have improved.