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A University of Connecticut department head has resigned from the school after an audit showed he approved travel expenses and compensatory time of more than $100,000 for his administrative assistant to accompany him on trips to places including Dublin and South Korea over the past few years. Ram...

Connecticut communities marked the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with ceremonies and memorials Tuesday morning. Officials in Middletown held a ceremony at city hall led by police officers and firefighters. They said the yearly remembrance reminds people of the sacrifices...

Last week, the state Department of Education broke down by school how students fared on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium test, the state’s standardized test for students in third through eighth grade. Scores showed a slight improvement over last year, with black and Hispanic students...

A former city council aide is suing Thomas “T.J.” Clarke, a member of Hartford city council and its former president, alleging that he sexually harassed and discriminated against her. The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Hartford, alleging violations of the federal Civil Rights...

Yale University researcher Joan Argetsinger Steitz, a leading pioneer in the field of genetics and lifelong advocate for gender equity in the sciences, has received the 2018 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science. The award, one of the most esteemed prizes in biomedicine,...

Spurred by the drowning of a 16-year-old boy, Hartford officials have allotted an additional $60,000 to maintain a citywide camera system that failed to detect the boy in the city pool where he died. Jaevon Whyte drowned on July 3 after sneaking into the Keney Park pool for an after-hours swim....

A noose looped around the head of a fake chicken was found hanging in the office of an African-American worker at the Department of Developmental Services regional office in Torrington, a state senator has been told. Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, provided to The Courant the photographs of the...

Tens of thousands of “Hamilton” fans won the battle. Tickets to the Hartford stop on the Broadway hit’s national tour went on sale Saturday morning and within a few hours, the least expensive seats (at $68.50 each) had all been snapped up. The rest, including top-tier seats at around $500 apiece,...

Communities across the state will pause Tuesday to mark the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which killed 161 men, women and children with ties to Connecticut. All flags will be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset, in remembrance of the 2,977 victims of the 2001 terrorist...

The judge in the Whiting psychiatric center patient-abuse case said that the treatment directed at a single psychiatric patient over a period of weeks in the spring of 2017 “cannot be described as care.” Rather, she said, it amounts to “intentional conduct perpetrated on a mentally ill person.”...