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William Winters Leverett told police last week that he went into a “frenzy” after seeing Melissa Millan jogging on a trail in Simsbury four years ago and described brutally stabbing her in the chest in a random attack that shocked the community and stymied investigators until last week. The warrant...

Gone are the rickety bleachers that have made Dillon Stadium an eyesore for years, but new problems are springing up at the site. The Capital Region Development Authority, the agency overseeing a $10 million redevelopment of the storied venue in Hartford’s Colt Park, is struggling to stay within...

Cousins Maine Lobster, which earned national recognition after a successful run on ABC’s “Shark Tank” in 2012, is expanding to the southern Connecticut market. The lobster-centric brand, with both food trucks and brick-and-mortar restaurants in more than 20 U.S. cities, will launch its first food...

A registered sex offender from Windsor Locks is charged in a warrant with the slaying of Melissa Millan, the insurance executive stabbed in 2014 while jogging on a trail in Simsbury, multiple law enforcement officials said. William Winters Leverett, 27, walked into Simsbury police headquarters...

Neil Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp opened Farm Aid’s 2018 concert in Hartford Saturday with emotional appeals for public support for family farmers and condemnations of corporate and industrial agriculture. “The corporate farms suck!” Young told several hundred fans and reporters at...

To his admirers, New Britain-born Adolfas Ramanauskas was a hero, a freedom fighter who adopted the code name Vanagas in the years he resisted the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. To his detractors, Ramanauskas was all of that — but also a Nazi sympathizer who collaborated with the Holocaust. That...

More than 1,000 veterans from around the state and all branches of service came by car, buses and vans to attend the state Department of Veterans Affairs annual Stand Down event at the Veteran’s Home and Hospital in Rocky Hill Friday. The event, which began in 1992 in Connecticut with a focus on...

The exclusive Loomis Chaffee School, having commissioned an investigation in 2016 into past sexual abuse of students by faculty reaching from the 1940s to the 2000s, is now reporting that it has discovered more cases. School officials, in a letter posted to the Loomis Chaffee community earlier...

The state Board of Examiners for Nursing on Wednesday disciplined three nurses, including suspending the license of a Stamford Hospital nurse accused of stealing Dilaudid meant for 21 patients. The registered nurse, Kerrisha Stacy-Ann Hurd of Elmont, New York, took the painkillers meant for the...

Tweaking the name Paul Manafort Drive to Paul Manafort Sr. Drive last month just wasn’t enough, city Democratic leaders say. They want the Manafort name off the street sign altogether. “It’s scandalous, it’s an embarrassment to New Britain,” said Carlo Carlozzi, majority leader of the common council....