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Waterbury has the highest eviction rate in Connecticut, and the 22nd highest among large U.S. cities, according to a Princeton University lab that developed the first nationwide database of evictions earlier this year. Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven also rank among the top 100 evicting cities...

The fall season in Hartford kicks off this weekend with a slate of free festivals expected to bring thousands of people to the capital city. Saturday brings the return of PrideFest and the Lift Every Voice and Sing Gospel Festival and Fair and the inaugural Hartbeat music festival on the riverfront....

The family of the man slain by former Connecticut prison inmate Wayne L. World has filed a lawsuit seeking all or part of a $1.3 million settlement reached after World sued the state over deficient medical care. World was convicted of manslaughter in the 2006 stabbing death of Omari Lawrence during...

Seventeen years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Connecticut Supreme Court will this week hear a case involving a Weston woman fighting to gain access to nearly $1.3 million awarded to her daughter as compensation for the death of the girl’s father at the World Trade Center. Carolyne Hynes...

Rachel Valentino of Waterbury met Mick Posner of Long Island at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. Both were deaf but they came from different upbringings: She had spoken all her life, not learning American Sign Language until she was 17. He had used ASL all his life and didn’t speak much....

A $5 million wrongful-death claim has been filed against the state’s child-protective agency arising from the starvation death in 2017 of Matthew Tirado. Matthew, who had intellectual disabilities and was non-verbal, had not been in school for several years. He was hidden in the Hartford apartment...

The landmark Plaza office tower downtown is going to become the new home of Community Mental Health Affiliates, the non-profit organization announced. CMHA is buying the seven-story office building and plans to use most of its 85,000 square feet for clinic space and offices. “We are consolidating...

Tickets to the national tour of “Hamilton” at The Bushnell will go on sale to the public at 9 a.m. Sept. 8. The highly anticipated tour will be at The Bushnell Dec. 11-30. Prices range from $68.50 to $198.50. A few “premium seats” at each performance will go for $498.50. Tickets are available only...

Alex Vincent was 6 years old when he was cast as the lead in the horror movie “Child’s Play.” He was a little worried about the crying scene, but his best friend in the movie didn’t scare him at all. “I knew what the film was about. I knew my character was supposed to be both innocent and terrified,”...

As thunder shook the ground and lightening split the sky, Betty Ann Miller sat in the front row of the state’s 9/11 Memorial Service at Sherwood Island State Park Thursday afternoon, a long-stemmed white rose in her hands. Miller said she was sitting in the kitchen of her Milford home nearly 17...