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Bristol-area patients who need to see specialists could be using Bristol Hospital’s new outpatient center as early as April, officials said Tuesday. Contractors are on schedule with the 60,000-square-foot building, according to Brian Cich, chief operating officer of Rendina Healthcare Real Estate....

The Travelers Institute, along with researchers at UConn has analyzed distracted driving statistics to identify the most dangerous highways in the state. Travelers also commissioned a survey of 500 residents to ask them about distracted driving. According to the Centers for Disease Control and...

Tom Bradley had grown accustomed to seeing black bears walk through his Connecticut neighborhood, but this month he was alarmed to find something trying to turn a doorknob to enter his house. He used his key fob to set off his car horn, to scare away whatever was in his garage. When he went outside,...

Recent turmoil notwithstanding, David Rosado insists these times are no more trying than any other as Hartford’s police chief. Earlier this month, a Hartford police sergeant was arrested and charged with giving stolen equipment to an accused drug dealer. Sgt. Justin Torniero’s arrest, and the subsequent...

Twenty years after Agnieszka Ziemlewski was fatally shot while walking on a popular Farmington trail near the Metropolitan District reservoir, police are making another plea for anyone with information about her killing to come forward. “We want to bring Agnes’ murder to the forefront of people’s...

A Guilford family seeking the release of their dog Simon after more than a year in town custody has taken the battle to federal court with a First Amendment lawsuit against the state, filed Friday. David Young, Simon’s owner, said the dog was in his own yard when he bit a teenage neighbor last...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration released a detailed report Monday on crime in Connecticut. Here are some highlights. Reported crime is at its lowest level since 1967, dropping 2 percent from 2016 to 2017 The crime rate has not been this low since Democrat John Dempsey was Connecticut’s governor...

A day after it was announced the entire Quinnipiac men’s lacrosse team was suspended, an investigation remains ongoing into a possible violation of the student code of conduct with no timeline for resolution, according to university officials. The university announced the suspensions and the investigation...

Yale Law School students held a sit in Monday morning demanding an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, including one while he was a Yale student. Kavanaugh, a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, has been accused by Christine...

Residents of the quiet town of Simsbury reacted with relief Monday after the arrest of a suspect in the 2014 tabbing death of Melissa Millan, an insurance company executive killed while jogging on a popular trail. “I’m glad [police] kept looking and kept pushing the matter,” said, Christel Brown...