Concerns have arisen among state House Republicans over disclosures that newly retired Sen. Rob Kane, the nominee for the $146,000-a-year job of chief Republican state auditor, fell $4,862 behind on court-required divorce payments for his children's expenses in the past year. House Minority Leader...
Site: Moody Coliseum Time: 7 p.m., Thursday TV: ESPN 2 (Adam Amin, Len Elmore) Radio: WTIC AM-1080, WILI-AM 1400, WELI-AM 960, WGCH-AM 1490, XM-384, Internet-971(Joe D'Ambrosio, Wayne Norman) Series history: SMU, 6-2. Last meeting: SMU, 80-54, at Moody Coliseum, March 3, 2016. Streaks: UConn, L1,...
Brittany Huggins is in her first season as a head coach at Hall and her team, which went 7-14 last year, is 10-2. On Friday, Hall will face crosstown rival Conard, with its own first-year coach Mike D'Angelo. Conard is 10-1. "It should be a very good game," said D'Angelo, a former Trinity College...
Tim Raines was one of the fastest baserunners ever, but he didn't mind taking the slow lane to Cooperstown. The longtime Expos' star, who played five years with the White Sox, finally was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday in his 10th and final year of eligibility, joining Astros'...
Dozens of theaters in Connecticut are joining hundreds of theaters nationwide Thursday night in a pledge to promote diversity and inclusion in their communities. The Ghostlight Project, named for the light bulb that theaters leave glowing onstage at night, encourages people to gather at designated...
A mother's story of her daughter's losing struggle with drug addiction and another young woman's story of her difficult recovery from heroin put faces on the scourge of drug use and deaths in recent years nationwide in big cities and small towns like Berlin. The drug-fueled destruction of Lisa...
The inauguration of the nation's newest president has already sent artists to their studios to turn their concerns into art. New Haven's Kehler Liddell Gallery has gathered some of that art for its exhibit "Inauguration Nation," now on the walls and will have an open house on inauguration day,...
Lockheed Martin's F-35 jet "has come a long way" since "grotesque" cost overruns and schedule delays plagued the costliest U.S. weapons system, departing Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in an appraisal at odds with the view of President-elect Donald Trump. Because the $379 billion program is...
Webster Bank announced Tuesday it will close branches in Manchester, Wethersfield and Danbury this spring as it continues to evaluate branch use as customers increasingly move to electronic banking for routine transactions. The closings will be spread over April and May. Branches at 320 Middle...
The operators of Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun are now considering solely the abandoned Showcase Cinemas property off I-91 in East Windsor as a possible site for a Hartford-area casino, the first off a tribal reservation. East Windsor First Selectman Robert Maynard said Tuesday the Mashantucket Pequots...
In his state of the state address Jan. 4, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy sketched out a plan to "ensure that no Connecticut city or town will need to explore the avoidable path of bankruptcy." Though details were sparse, he implied that the best way to stave off municipal insolvency would be a statewide...
Every year, more and more people in Connecticut report bear sightings. Last year, the number was up 49 percent, to about 6,700. Does that mean there are more bears in Connecticut? Yes, there probably are, but a more accurate read of the statistics tells a slightly different story: that 49 percent...
The state will soon see a $31 million deposit in the general fund, and it comes with a pound of justice, thanks in large part to the efforts of the state attorney general's office. The money comes from the settlement of a 2010 lawsuit, originally filed by Connecticut's former Attorney General Richard...
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he did not expect to weigh in on day-to-day policy debates after departing the White House this week. But he vowed to inject himself into the national debate if he senses an erosion of the nation's "core values," such as efforts to suppress the right to...