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Fired Hartford Police Officer Stephen Barone, who was caught on camera telling a group of young people that he felt “trigger happy,” will receive a payment of $12,412.85 for unused vacation time, city records show. Barone, a 10-year member of the department, has two options for collecting his retirement...

All political candidates naturally aspire to hold the office they’re competing for, and they occasionally imagine themselves already in the job, wielding the power they seek from voters and describing the reforms they would make. But can that strategy mislead voters into thinking a candidate is...

Michael Stotts, who has been the managing director of Hartford Stage since 2006, is leaving the theater at the end of January for a similar post at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse, the theater announced Tuesday morning. In a phone interview with The Courant shortly before the official announcement,...

The state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that more than 35 documents and journals belonging to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza will be released to the public, a key victory in the Hartford Courant’s five-year battle to obtain the information. The Courant requested access to the documents...

Ryan Durant, the owner and executive chef of Assaggio in Branford, isn’t quite sure how he ended up on the finalist list for PEOPLE’s “Sexiest Chef Alive.” But he suspects it might have something to do with a viral video from 2015. That summer, in a segment on WFSB’s “Better Connecticut,” Durant...

Sue Hatfield, the Republican candidate for attorney general, has joked that she sometimes feels she is running unopposed, given her Democratic opponent’s seeming obsession with the politics of a different Republican: Donald Trump. Trump’s policies — and particularly the controversial decision to...

Hartford on Monday became the first municipality in the state to ban the sale of tobacco products to people younger than 21, a benchmark its leaders hope other Connecticut cities will emulate. The city council voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance that raises the legal age to purchase tobacco...

The leadership of the school system is accusing Mayor Erin Stewart’s administration’s of wrongly taking control of nearly $11 million in a reserve fund. “You have taken monies belonging to the board of education and its employees/retirees without authorization to do so,” the school board’s attorney...

In the city’s most closely watched election race this season, two Democrats are running against each other — with one of them on the GOP ticket. Rep. Rick Lopes, who has represented the 24th District for the past seven years, is being challenged by former school board President Sharon Beloin-Saavedra....

An Israeli technology company developing a voice recognition app that can understand impaired speech has won a $1.5 million investment package to relocate to Connecticut, the top prize from the state’s third annual startup challenge. Voiceitt’s software restores communication to people with non-standard...