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  • Portland Middle School is located at 95 High St.
    News
    Portland High School students make third term honor rolls
    PORTLAND — Portland High School has announced the names of students who made the honor roll for the third marking term of the 2021-22 academic year. High honors Seniors: Katelin Binezewski, Hannah...
    By Staff reports
  • Middletown Common Councilman Anthony Mangiafico
    Middletown
    Middletown councilman enters race for 13th Senate District
  • The Torrington Police Department
    News
    Police chief says force needs cops trained to ID drugged drivers
  • The M&T Bank on the Post Road in Cos Cob was the scene of a robbery May 11.
    News
    Police: Officers follow ‘promising leads’ in Cos Cob bank robbery
  • Bristol police.
    Hartford
    Police: Man, 27, seriously injured in Bristol motorcycle crash
  • Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont
    News
    New poll: Lamont has 13-point lead over Stefanowski
  • NorWalk for Mental Health event will take place on the Norwalk Green on Saturday, May 21 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. About 25 organizations will be represented at the wellness fair on the green and a 1.5-mile awareness walk will start from the gazebo around 10:30 a.m.
    News
    Norwalk organizations partner to improve public’s mental health
UConn
  • UConn women's basketball Coach Geno Auriemma, right, chats with fans during the UConn Road Show at Two Roads Area 2 brewery in Stratford, Conn. on Saturday, May 14, 2022. Auriemma was joined by men's basketball coach Dan Hurley, hockey Coach Mike Cavanaugh, and women's soccer Coach Margaret Rodriguez.
    Why UConn hockey coach Mike Cavanaugh stayed in Storrs
    The UConn Coaches Road Show concluded its 2022 edition in Stratford on Tuesday night at Two Roads Brewing Company.
    By Maggie Vanoni
  • HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT - DECEMBER 18: The Connecticut Huskies logo on a chair before the game against the Providence Friars at XL Center on December 18, 2021 in Hartford, Connecticut. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images)
    UConn staffer leaves program to work for Bouknight
    By David Borges
    UConn football coach Jim Mora, right, chats with men's basketball coach Dan Hurley, left, before the UConn Coaches Road Show event Monday in Southington. Women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma is in the background.
    Auriemma, Penders and Hurley showing Mora the UConn way
    By Mike Anthony
    The scene at the UConn Coaches Road Show at Kinsmen Brewing Company in Southington Monday night.
    UConn’s Geno Auriemma on lasting impact on UConn athletics
    By Maggie Vanoni
    UConn men's basketball coach Dan Hurley, left, talks to baseball coach Jim Penders at the Coaches Road Show stop in Southington Monday night.
    Hurley: UConn men recruited ‘exactly’ what staff was seeking
    By David Borges
Crime News
  • Police: Officers follow ‘promising leads’ in Cos Cob bank robbery
  • Police: Man, 27, seriously injured in Bristol motorcycle crash
  • State police investigate I-84 hit-and-run in Danbury
  • Four promoted on Danbury police force
  • CT firefighters’ alleged drug use raises questions about testing
  • Police: Norwich man charged with home invasion, assault
  • Police: Thieves caught after gunpoint Home Depot shoplifting
  • Police: Waterbury man charged in triple shooting
  • Police: Norwalk man charged possessing child sex abuse imagery
  • Police: Waterbury man shot in fight with motorist
  • Police: $18,800 worth of bronze vases stolen from Darien cemetery
  • Police: Do you recognize this vehicle from a shooting in Willimantic?
Business
  • People shop on Main Street in Westport, Conn., on Sunday, May 8, 2022. Several of Connecticut’s largest companies have seen rising demand for goods and services so far in 2022.
    CT companies see rising consumer spending despite headwinds
    Rising inflation, lingering Covid restrictions and supply chain blockages are not stopping strong U.S. consumer spending for some of Connecticut's largest companies.
    By Paul Schott
  • Phillip Morris International CEO Jacek Olczak, right, shakes hands with AdvanceCT Co-Chair Indra Nooyi, left, and Conn. Gov. Ned Lamont after announcing Phillip Morris International's intention to move its company headquarters to Connecticut on Tuesday in Stamford. The world's largest tobacco company anticipates that its new headquarters will be fully operational by summer 2022, raising the number of Fortune 500 companies in Connecticut from 14 to 15.
    Philip Morris buys Swedish Match for $16B ahead of move to CT
    By Alexander Soule
    FILE - Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020, in Washington.
    Elon Musk Twitter acquisition gets $8.5M from CT hedge fund
    By Paul Schott
    Rich Strike, with Sonny Leon riding, won the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday, May 7, 2022. The race, which was carried on the NBC network and digital platforms, was watched by an average of 16 million viewers.
    CT’s NBC Sports reins in 16 million viewers for Kentucky Derby
    By Paul Schott
    Avangrid Networks headquarters in Orange
    $3M settlement will help pay off some CT utility customers’ debt
    By Luther Turmelle
Most Popular
  1. Milford teen, 16, charged in stabbing death of Fairfield Prep student James McGrath
  2. Police: Thieves caught after gunpoint Home Depot shoplifting in West Hartford
  3. State police cruiser involved in Milford crash
  4. Hartford police: Man slain overnight found shot inside a crashed car on Bellevue Street
  5. Milford aldermen OK $238M budget with slight mill rate drop
  6. Widow of Milford’s first Black firefighter objects to use of husband’s name for scholarship
  7. ‘I want to make others smile:’ Milford’s Krusinski earns DAR Good Citizen Award
Politics
  • Even those not infected with the coronavirus have suffered negative health effects caused by evictions, lack of food security and unemployment.
    CT budget put $5 million for eviction prevention programs
    As the number of evictions in Connecticut spikes, the state legislature has set aside $5 million for eviction prevention programs through the Department of Housing, including an expanded “rent bank.”
    By Ginny Monk
  • Candidate for Greenwich RTM moderator Alexis Vouglaris chats outside her home in Old Greenwich, Conn. Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. If she wins, she will be the first new moderator in 24 years.
    How one local CT official spices up public meetings with music
    By Jordan Nathaniel Fenster
    Democratic State Party Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo, speaking to reporters in August, 2020.
    CT Democrats say abortion rights at stake in 2022 election
    By Ken Dixon and John Moritz
    Past and present Kid Governor's of Connecticut and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz 
    Connecticut’s ‘Kid Governor’ program launches in Oklahoma
    By Jailene Cuevas
    Sen. Doug McCrory and Rep. Bobby Sanchez, co-chairmen of the Education Committee,
    CT education funding bill fails, but advocates vow to bring it...
    By Keith M. Phaneuf
  • Hartford CT education funding bill fails, but advocates vow to...
    Sen. Doug McCrory and Rep. Bobby Sanchez, co-chairmen of the Education Committee,
  • News Here’s an early look at the Connecticut statewide primaries
    Voters cast their ballots at the polls during a municipal election in Norwalk last year.
  • News Baby formula shortage affecting Connecticut
    Shelves typically stocked with baby formula sit mostly empty at a store in San Antonio, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Parents across the U.S. are scrambling to find baby formula because supply disruptions and a massive safety recall have swept many leading brands off store shelves. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
  • News Lamont, Stefanowski debate list naming CT top state for cops
    The Connecticut State Police recently graduated 53 new state troopers, all members of the 131st Training Troop, at the Hartford Armory. Four are assigned to the Westbrook Troop F barracks.
  • Hartford Former CT governor blasted in role as chancellor in Maine
    University of Maine Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy, the former Governor of Connecticut, walks the University of Maine main campus in Orono, Maine on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019.
Real Estate
  • A Cherry Lane property in Wilton scheduled for a foreclosure auction in May 2022. Under the new MyHomeCT program, homeowners can apply for up to $30,000 to get caught up on their mortgages or make future payments.
    Program offers up to $30K to help CT residents avoid foreclosure
    With nearly 1,200 foreclosure actions filed in the first three months of 2022, the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority will distribute $123 million in assistance.
    By Alexander Soule
  • A Hilltop Drive house listed for sale by Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New England Properties, in West Hartford, Conn., where nearly three dozen people signed up to attend showings at the end of April when it hit the market. According to ShowingTime, Connecticut has three of the most active markets in the nation for home showings in the Bridgeport-Greenwich corridor and the greater Hartford and New Haven regions.
    Aggressive bidding drives home sales above asking prices in CT
    By Alexander Soule
    Construction on the new Windward Commons mixed income housing development on the site of the old Marina Village Public Housing complex in Bridgeport, Conn. on Wednesday, September 30, 2020.
    Data: After fast start to 2022, new housing permits slowing down
    By Luther Turmelle
    The real estate market has been booming in Connecticut during the pandemic.?
    Why advocates say CT is experiencing ‘housing crisis’
    By Jordan Nathaniel Fenster
    Mark Twain's home “Stormfield” in Redding is up for sale on 28 acreas for $3.9 million. The original house burned down but was rebuilt on the same foundation.
    Estate where Mark Twain died for sale in Redding for $3.9M
    By Alexander Soule
  • Real Estate Why including 'love letters' with home offers might be a...
    A for sale sign hangs for a town house/ condo for property off of Hope Street in Stamford, Connecticut on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017.
  • Real Estate When will Connecticut home prices fall?
    FILE - This Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, file photo shows a house for sale sign in Orange County near Hillsborough, N.C. In Connecticut, residential real estate sales are down in October compared to the same month last year, although they’re still well above pre-pandemic levels. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
  • Real Estate Connecticut castle listed in 2021 increases price to $60M
    The property located on 450 Brickyard Road in Woodstock, Conn. has 18,777 square feet of living space and was completed in 2010.
  • Real Estate Rising interest rates in CT affect home buying power,...
    Connecticut real estate agents are now required to take a course on racial bias, and advocates have high hopes for a new federal initiative to increase housing affordability.
  • Real Estate Data: Home sales down, but condo and townhouse purchases...
    A Brooklawn Avenue home in Bridgeport, Conn., which was purchased in January 2022 for $572,000. In Connecticut, Bridgeport trailed only Waterbury for house sales in the first quarter of 2022.
Entertainment
  • The First ParaConn Paranormal convention was hosted at teh Ansonia Armory, in Ansonia, CT., on Saturday, July 24 and Sunday, July 25, 2021. The Event Featured paranormal investigators, seminars, panels, vendors, food trucks and exhibits. Were you SEEN? 
    Psychics and Annabelle: CT's paranormal events start in July
    Whether you're a fan of "haunted" objects like the Warren's Annabelle doll, or interested in the possibility of spectres, Connecticut's paranormal conventions are the place to be for fans of the...
    By Andrew DaRosa
  • Westport Country Playhouse’s production of “Straight White Men” focuses on a widowed father and his three sons played by Denver Milord (left), Nick Westrate, Richard Kline and Bill Army.  
    ‘Three’s Company' actor hits CT stage in 'Straight White Men'
    By Keith Loria
    The Westport Country Playhouse commissioned a trio of playwrights for new plays. 
    WCP offers playwright commissions for the first time in 91 years
    By Keith Loria
     Host Sean 'Diddy' Combs is seen during the 2022 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 15, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 
    Diddy invites CT students onstage at the Billboard Music Awards
    By Adriana Morga
    Brandi Carlile, performing above at the 2019 Bonnaroo Arts And Music Festival in Tennessee, is coming to Foxwoods.
    Connecticut’s music festival season heats up this summer
    By Mike Horyczun
  • living Paris Hilton, will.i.am among celebrities in CT mom's...
    Nancy Armstrong, the producer of "The Disruptors."
  • Things To Do 'Baby Shark Live' leads kids shows at Stamford's Palace...
    BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 08: Hogi, Baby Shark, and Pinkfong perform during "Pinkfong Baby Shark Live!" presented by Pinkfong at Kings Theatre on November 08, 2019 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images for Baby Shark)
  • Entertainment The Smashing Pumpkins, Jane's Addiction team up for CT...
    IRVINE, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 29: Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins performs at FivePoint Amphitheatre on August 29, 2019 in Irvine, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images)
  • Things To Do New exhibit marries science and art to celebrate quantum...
    Detail of Martha W. Lewis drawing the fridge “Frozone” in the quantum laboratories at Yale.
  • Entertainment Netflix star Daym Drops talks CT roots and Emmy nominations
    Daymon “Daym Drops” Patterson is pictured in the Denver episode of “Fresh, Fried and Crispy.”
Food
  • Save the Sound Light Lager, by Stony Creek Brewery.
    New Stony Creek beer benefits Save The Sound
    Stony Creek Brewery's newest beer release is a collaboration with Save the Sound, a regional environmental nonprofit.
    By Leeanne Griffin
  • A file photo showing Two Roads Brewing Company in Stratford, Conn. Two Roads is the town’s sixth largest taxpayer.
    Connecticut's Two Roads Brewing now makes non-alcoholic beer
    By Andrew DaRosa
    Daymon “Daym Drops” Patterson is pictured in the Denver episode of “Fresh, Fried and Crispy.”
    Netflix star Daym Drops talks CT roots and Emmy nominations
    By Jailene Cuevas
    Food items at Bank & Bridge Brewing in Mystic rotate frequently, but recent features have included a PB&J burger with creamy peanut butter, strawberry jam, bacon jam and goat cheese on Texas toast, and the “Smashbox 20” with two four-ounce “smash burger” patties, American cheese, garlic onion compote and Calabrian chile mayo. 
    Wacky, wild and over-the-top CT burgers for National Burger Month
    By Leeanne Griffin
    Mint Julep in Kentucky Derby style metal cup 
    Kentucky Derby parties in CT: From mint juleps to festive hats
    By Leeanne Griffin
  • living Column: ‘Tear down’ culture makes it easy to forget about...
    A excavator from AAIS Corp. in West Haven tears down part of Canaan House on the Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown in 2016.
  • living Paris Hilton, will.i.am among celebrities in CT mom's...
    Nancy Armstrong, the producer of "The Disruptors."
  • living CT artist wins Pulitzer for memoir about Jim Crow South
    Nationally-known, Georgia-born folk artist Winfred Rembert, who lived for much of his life in New Haven's Newhallville section, in a photo released in advance of a 2015 show at the New Haven Museum.
  • Entertainment Greenwich author and lawyer wins award for debut novel
    Greenwich author Jeff Cooper won an Independent Press Award for his book "After the Fact."
  • Things To Do 5 Puerto Rican Day parades and festivals in Connecticut
    The annual Puerto Rican Day Parade on Park Avenue in Bridgeport, Conn. on Sunday, July 14, 2019.
More News
  • News
    State police investigate I-84 hit-and-run in Danbury
    State police are seeking information on a Sunday hit-and-run on westbound I-84 in Danbury. State police are seeking information on a Sunday hit-and-run on Interstate 84 in Danbury. A Massachusetts woman was uninjured in the crash. By Kendra Baker
  • News
    Abortion rights at forefront of Dem primary for CT House seat
    Joe Miller Joe Miller, seeking the 116th District House seat, said fellow Democrat Trenee McGee has “led a charge ... within the General Assembly against reproductive rights.” By Brian Zahn
  • News
    Four promoted on Danbury police force
    Mayor Dean Esposito, second from right, with the Danbury Police Department’s four recently promoted members, from left, Michael Russotti, Mark Wochek, Joseph LeRose and Jonathan Grande. Four members of the Danbury Police Department were recently promoted during a ceremony at City Hall on Monday. By Kendra Baker
  • Shoreline Times
    Old Saybrook canine officer among recent narcotic training grads
    Ten Connecticut State Police canine teams made up the 227th Narcotics K-9 Class, which graduated May 13 during a ceremony at the Connecticut State Police K-9 Unit. The teams will begin assisting police in combating the narcotic and opiate crisis in Connecticut. By Staff reports
  • Hartford
    CT firefighters’ alleged drug use raises questions about testing
    After an investigation showed that at least nine New Britain firefighters had used drugs on the job, some call for strict testing requirements. After an investigation showed that at least nine New Britain firefighters had used drugs on the job, some call for strict testing requirements. By Christine Dempsey
  • News
    Police: Norwich man charged with home invasion, assault
    Kwendelle Wiggins The man, 31, was held on a $1 million bond, police said. By Ben Lambert
  • Shoreline Times
    Essex Sen. Norm Needleman endorsed for re-election campaign
    Sen. Norm Needleman, D-Essex The legislator, who is also the town’s first selectman, is seeking a third term representing the 33rd District. By Staff reports
  • Middletown
    Middletown Highland Pond dam project met with backlash
    The Middletown Highland Pond dam removal project has been met with some backlash from residents. A fisheries biologist says the structure’s removal will alleviate a problem and foster ‘positive ecological restoration.’ By Hannah Docter-Loeb
  • Hartford
    Police: Thieves caught after gunpoint Home Depot shoplifting
    Juan Surillo West Hartford police said one of the suspects displayed a fake gun before they led officers on a car chase into Hartford. By Peter Yankowski
  • News
    Stamford mourns with Buffalo after mass shooting
    State Representative Hubert Delany, left, and activist Wilner Joseph, in back, help Ciara Bynum, 5, light her cangle during a vigil at the Government Center in Stamford, Conn., on Tuesday May 17, 2022. The vigil is in response to the Buffalo shooting this past weekend. Organizer Wilner Joseph said, "This has been a terrorist attack against innocent Black people whose life was taken by someone who has hate in their heart." Mourners gathered in front of Old Town hall for a vigil to honor those murdered in Buffalo in a mass shooting that targeted Black residents. By Verónica Del Valle
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