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Like many first-timers in the Eversource Hartford Half Marathon this weekend, Will Moffett Jr. just wants to finish in one piece. So earlier this week, he added some reinforcements to the 11-foot-tall giant bear puppet he’ll be wearing for the 13-mile jaunt, a stunt he hopes will raise money for...

Joseph Silva is taking his double murder case to trial and this week a judge ruled that the state can use a key bit of evidence police found during a warrantless search at a home where Silva had stayed. Silva, 23, faces two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of Joshua Cortez, 22, of Hartford...

The 1985 murder of Everett Carr was such a violent attack that investigators collected more than 70 blood samples off the walls, ceiling, floor and even a hidden cigar box, but when DNA testing was conducted 22 years later none matched the two men convicted of his murder. Instead the testing uncovered...

It was only a few days after 5-year-old Jacob Poulin’s death from a rare brain tumor in 2016 that the idea came to his parents. “My husband said ‘We can’t let this be all his life was for,’” said his mother, Sarah Poulin. Out of that conversation grew the Jacob Roger Poulin Foundation and plans...

Several 3D printing startups have announced plans to maintain a presence in Hartford following their participation in the first Stanley Black & Decker incubator program, which ended with a pitch presentation Thursday night. Two of the startups now have Connecticut locations, while two more at least...

Two hundred years ago, the state’s first constitution became the law of the land — marking a sharp turn from a New World nobility that had governed Connecticut since its founding. The Constitution of 1818 severed official ties between the state and Congregational Church and expanded voting rights....

In a one-two punch of indictments, federal authorities took 10 men into custody in New York and southeastern Connecticut suspected of moving large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine. Both U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John H. Durham and his counterpart in southern New York, Geoffrey S. Berman,...

The Hartford Boys & Girls Clubs hope to raise $20 million in the next four years to open a new center in the South End, a corner of the city with a wealth of children and a dearth of after-school facilities. The clubs’ board already has secured nearly $12 million, Sam Gray, head of the Boys & Girls...

Julian Rodriguez, the former owner of Jalisco Mexican Grill & Cantina in Glastonbury, was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison after his conviction earlier this year on a charge of first-degree unlawful restraint. Rodriguez, 39, was initially charged with sexual assault after two women told...

The Hartford Courant was named Newspaper of the Year Thursday by the New England Newspaper & Press Association, the second straight year the Courant has won the top award among newspapers with circulations over 35,000. “This is an award that speaks to the breadth and consistency of the excellent...