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It isn’t every tag sale that sells Hermes, Prada, Bottega Veneta and Gucci scarves, Tori Burch and Nina Ricci sunglasses, Tiffany jewelry, Adrienne Vittadini and Miu Miu shoes, diamond necklaces, Ferragamo and Louis Vuitton handbags. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s POSH Sale returns this year...

After traveling the country to speak about violence toward Dakota Access Pipeline protesters, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard said Thursday that she’s never seen anything like Stephen Balkaran’s civil rights class. “When I was first asked to come here, Stephen started talking to me about civil rights...

Joseph Silva's former girlfriend, Kailei Opalacz, testified Thursday in Superior Court in Hartford that she watched as Silva fired several rounds into Joshua Cortez's head, and then shot Alysha Ocasio as she sat in a car. Silva, 23, who is on trial for murder in the killings of Cortez and Ocasio,...

A Connecticut woman has lodged a discrimination complaint against a Middletown McDonald’s, alleging she was barred from wearing a hijab at work — a violation of her “sincerely-held religious beliefs,” she said, along with federal and state civil rights protections. In a complaint filed with the...

A nationally known pizza maker referred to as “the Lord of the Pies,” who owns several restaurants named Pinocchio, plead guilty Thursday in federal court to tax evasion. Bruno DiFabio of Ridgefield plead guilty to failing to report more than $800,000 in cash receipts from his pizza empire to the...

The latest findings of an investigation into past sexual abuse at Indian Mountain School are rippling through the Salisbury school’s large alumni community, contained in a letter sent Oct. 19 from the current headmaster and board president that adds details to a saga of child molestation already...

Authorities across Connecticut are on alert after reports of mail containing bombs were received in nearby New York City and other locations, targeting prominent Democrats. Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s office said Wednesday that they had received no such packages, nor were they aware of any specific...

Mayor Luke Bronin and state environmental groups are decrying a plan to trim 30 acres of trees on the banks of the Connecticut River, a move meant to enhance visibility for pilots at Brainard Airport. The proposal calls for trees to be cropped or removed in Hartford near the Wethersfield town line....

Chevoughn Augustin, the Hartford woman accused of stabbing Hartford police Officer Jill Kidik in May, made a brief appearance on Wednesday in Hartford Superior Court. A judge continued her case to Dec. 5. Augustin’s lawyer, public defender George Flores, told Judge Laura F. Baldini that a psychiatrist...

Josue Rodriguez, a 17-year-old Hartford man, told a Superior Court jury Wednesday that he saw Joseph Silva shoot Joshua Cortez and then fire a gun into a Honda Accord that Alysha Ocasio was sitting in. It was the first day of trial for Silva, 23, who is charged with two counts of murder and a single...