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State prosecutors have dropped a criminal charge filed against the former principal of Montville High School, who along with two other administrators, was accused of failing to report suspected child abuse to the state Department of Children and Families. The case against Jeffrey Theodoss, 64,...

The heavy rain on Tuesday led to flooding across parts of Connecticut, stranding motorists, washing away roads and bridges and flooding residents’ basements. Some towns and cities urged people to stay off flooded roads and water rushed over at least two major highways in the state. The rain was...

The Education and Justice departments are investigating whether Yale University discriminates against Asian-American applicants, expanding the probe of admissions practices to a second elite university. Yale denied the allegations, said it would cooperate with the investigation and defended its...

A Connecticut Navy veteran who was sexually assaulted while serving in Japan has been awarded an honorable discharge after she challenged the “bad paper” discharge status she had been given. Bianca Cruz successfully defended her Navy record in an appeal to the Naval Discharge Review Board, which...

There were six suicide attempts by residents of Solnit South children’s psychiatric center, run by the state’s child-protection agency, between November 2017 and March 2018 — but there was no public disclosure that anything was amiss until after a pregnant teenager killed herself there in June...

‘This anniversary is a time to appreciate where we are, but also look to the future,” says Hartford Symphony Music Director Carolyn Kuan, the 10th person and first woman to hold that position in the symphony’s 75-year history. The season-opening concert, “Pictures at an Exhibition” — with works...

Will K. Wilkins, executive director of Real Art Ways, announced on Tuesday the Hartford art space’s intent to move to a larger location, but said the site specifically named in a State Bond Commission funding request last summer “is not a done deal yet.” Wilkins, at a fundraising reception titled...

A week ago, Angel Machiavelo was running out of time. He’d left the Hartford hotel where, until last month, the federal government had billeted him and dozens more Puerto Ricans driven to Connecticut by Hurricane Maria. He’d brought his few belongings to a church. They told him he had the week...

Regardless of what Paul Manafort did, the street name that honors his father shouldn’t change, the Manafort family said Tuesday. The family was “very saddened and disappointed” to learn that the city might pull the name, according to a letter sent to the common council on Tuesday afternoon. The...

The coffee cup with its iconic orange and pink letters has become an emblem of the neighborhood that is blooming north of Hartford’s downtown. But the future of that classic signage atop Dunkin’ Donuts Park, the stadium that sold out more than two-thirds of its games last season, is in doubt as...