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A convicted drug peddler with an arrest record dating to 1990 pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges stemming from an outbreak of K2 overdoses that captured international attention in July, when dozens of drug users were collapsing to the ground from synthetic cannabis laced with a discarded...

The registered sex offender accused of murdering Simsbury jogger Melissa Millan in 2014 pleaded not guilty Wednesday and waived his right to a probable cause hearing. William Winters Leverett, 27, made a brief appearance in Superior Court in Hartford. He opted for a jury trial and was ordered to...

Randy Parkman was acting crazy, hadn’t slept for days and had a handgun, a cooperating defendant told a Hartford police detective Monday. Following this tip, Parkman, 41, was taken into custody and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, federal arrest records show. Hartford police,...

A week into their investigation into the grisly discovery of a dead baby at a city recycling facility, Stamford detectives have narrowed their focus and determined that the child did not come from Long Island or Massachusetts. The dead child, a full-term baby boy, was first discovered by workers...

A New Haven drug maker and Hamden research center have been paired in a new, late-stage clinical trial to slow or stop the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Biohaven Pharmaceuticals announced enrolling its first patient in August, and is still seeking more participants for the study, which is being...

The state library is hosting one last collection of Connecticut’s World War I memories — letters, photos and souvenirs handed down over the past century — to save them in digital perpetuity and share them with an unlimited audience. The WWI Digitization Day is set for Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2...

Upward Hartford is proud of its recent renovations. It has more space now. So it’s hosting an avalanche. On Nov. 8, an ensemble of musicians from Hartford Symphony Orchestra will perform Missy Mazzoli’s 2008 composition “Still Life With Avalanche,” live in the mezzanine area of Upward Hartford,...

A Windsor Locks teen charged in a string of armed street robberies who was shot by New Britain police in December had four new armed robbery charges filed against him Tuesday in Superior Court in Middletown. Caleb Tisdol, who is now 16, was 15 when he and two others carried out six armed robberies...

Dozens of Connecticut state troopers, municipal police officers and civilians received awards Tuesday at the annual state police awards ceremony, including one trooper who received the rare Medal of Honor. Trooper First Class Marc O’Mara was working a construction detail on I-95 in October 2014...

Amazon Prime members in Greater Hartford can now take advantage of free, same-day delivery. It’s the latest offering in a wave of convenience services expanded to Connecticut markets, and the most expansive in terms of what you can order to your doorstep in just matter of hours. Prime members can...