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Wheeler Clinic is partnering with the Hispanic Health Council to bring more comprehensive health care to underserved communities in the Greater Hartford area. The program is aimed at behavioral health patients who are at risk of other chronic health issues, like diabetes, that too often go untreated...

A key state agency plans to issue its opinion on the controversial Tilcon Connecticut gravel quarry expansion later this month. The water planning council will meet Aug. 24 to complete its recommendations on whether Connecticut should exempt the company from laws that protect environmentally sensitive...

A once-popular Christian theme park in Waterbury, closed since 1984, will re-open Saturday for an outdoor Mass celebrating the late founder of the Knights of Columbus. More than 1,000 people are expected to attend the service on Pine Hill, site of the 18-acre Holy Land USA park built in the 1950’s...

A psychiatric nurse from Durham who lost a $4.2 million malpractice decision in 2016 in connection with her care of a patient who committed suicide was reprimanded Wednesday by the state Board of Examiners for Nursing. The board also placed the advanced practice registered nurse license of Catherine...

Kimberly Streater was pregnant with her third of six children when she called her friend for a ride to the hospital after sustaining a hit to her stomach by her then-husband. When she reached the hospital, Streater, not yet 28 weeks pregnant, alerted personnel that her baby was coming—now. “They...

Airbnb announced this week that it generated $5.2 million in tax revenue for Connecticut in the past two years, but Simsbury has decided the home-sharing service is not welcome there. The Farmington Valley suburb of about 25,000 joins the growing number of cities and towns — including Hartford...

March For Our Lives, the activist group dedicated to ending gun violence, will end its nationwide bus tour in Newtown on Sunday. The event will be held at the Fairfield Hills Hospital campus from 2 to 6 p.m. It will feature speeches from student activists, a voter registration drive, entertainment...

Nathan Carman came to West Hartford Town Hall Tuesday with a heavy police presence escorting him to his car, the usual media scrum flashing microphones in his face, and his aunt, who has accused him of murdering two members of their family, sitting inot 20 feet away. Carman came to the probate...

More than five years have passed since the mass shooting that made Newtown shorthand for a depth of tragedy that, several years and several scores of school shootings later, remains unplumbed. Now, a local committee has settled on a design for a memorial to the 20 children and 6 adults killed at...

Forty percent of the juvenile detention officers working in the Bridgeport detention facility were injured and out on worker’s compensation as of Tuesday, the result of confrontations with an older, more aggressive caliber of offender and the symptom of an understaffing problem that is causing...