HARTFORD — Four members of Connecticut's all-Democratic congressional delegation came to the state capitol Friday to press for stronger gun control laws after the San Bernardino massacre. The revelation that one of the assailants had contact with people connected to terror organizations overseas...
The latest chapter in Andrell Pinnock's football career began last season when a Rocky Hill helmet collided with his right knee. On the fifth play of Bloomfield football's fourth game last year, at home against the Terriers, the senior running back made a move on a messy field to try and avoid...
Though it will be only a span of 617 days, it seems like a lot longer, doesn't it? That's too many days for UConn to be absent from Madison Square Garden. "If you don't get fired up for that game, you might as well not put on a jersey," Kevin Ollie said, referring to UConn's return to The Garden...
Site: Gampel Pavilion Time: 5:15 p.m. TV: ESPN (Dave O'Brien and Doris Burke) Radio: WTIC-AM 1080, WILI-AM 1400 (Bob Joyce and Debbie Fiske) Series history: UConn, 33-11 Last meeting: UConn, 63-53, April 7, 2015, national championship game, Tampa, Fla. Streaks: Notre Dame W7, UConn W42 Notre Dame...
A man sat on a large boulder under the branches of huge white pines and cast his fishing line into the placid waters. A pair of dogs - their owners far behind them - explore the underbrush kicking up recently fallen leaves. Mallard ducks gently swim across the still waters with only the occassional...
HARTFORD — Five weeks after the state Supreme Court ordered that Eduardo Santiago be resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release for the killing of a West Hartford man in 2000, the former death row inmate stood before a Superior Court judge. Santiago, 36, formerly of Torrington,...
It's just before 5 p.m. Friday, Trooper Ryan Frechette is heading east on I-84 near Exit 8 in Danbury and with him are potentially thousands of followers. It's rush hour in the Hat City. Sitting next to him in the silver cruiser is Trooper Tyler Weerden, a department spokesperson who will be tweeting...
STORRS — It's been a whirlwind fall season at Biorasis, a startup biomedical company at UConn. First, the company — which is developing a new device to monitor blood sugar levels in diabetics — won a $200,000 grant to test its product on the International Space Station. Then Biorasis won a prize...
If you can imagine a crowd that doesn't need to be told black lives matter, it would be 2,500 people at The Bushnell who had paid theater ticket prices for a discussion on racism in America. And yet, there they were, a small group of demonstrators at the start of The Connecticut Forum event Thursday...
Right now you're probably thinking more about Santa Claus than Uncle Sam. But a little attention to Uncle Sam between now and the end of the year may make his visit less painful when you do your tax return in a few months. Consider some relatively simple moves now so you can maneuver through your...
In the late 1970s, I went to Kingswood Oxford School and later Loomis Chaffee School. A member of the exclusive prep school club, mine was an insulated life of wealth and privilege. To me, the rules were clear: Chase those who are ahead, outrun those who are behind and ignore everyone outside my...
On Tuesday, lawmakers convene at the Capitol to fix the budget shortfall. Let's hope they do something more substantial than move items off-budget. Otherwise, they will face even more painful budget decisions in coming years. Democratic negotiators are said to be close to agreement with Democratic...
Legislators and the governor should at long last implement the constitutional cap on state budget expenditures ratified by 80 percent of the voters in an election held more than two decades ago. It's well past time that the state's leaders made things right with their constituents regarding the...
Hundreds of pages of newly released Chicago police reports from the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald are most striking for one simple reason: They are dramatically at odds with the dash-cam video that has sparked protests across the city, cost the city's top cop his job and embroiled Mayor Rahm...