A flare-up of ulcerative colitis could not have come at a worse time for Newington High School senior Toni Laites. The 17-year-old senior missed the final games of her senior lacrosse season, her award and scholarship programs, the final weeks of school — and, worst of all, she was about to miss...
For 50 days, Tim Cate had to keep to his own schedule while his teammates went on. The UConn baseball team was scrapping hard to win tough games on the road, and Cate, its No.1 pitcher when the season began, had to stay at home and work the tightness out of his left forearm. “It was tough, especially...
With the WNBA season getting going, here is a look at the former UConn players currently on team rosters. Nine of the league's 12 teams have former Huskies, led by the New York Liberty with four ex-UConn stars.
Whit Merrifield had three hits, stole three bases and scored twice off CC Sabathia in the first four innings, Jakob Junis held down the Yankees ' potent offense and Kansas City beat New York 5-2 on Friday night. Salvador Perez homed and added three RBIs for the Royals , who had lost five straight...
The U.S. Treasury Department has approved 72 so-called “Opportunity Zones” in Connecticut, including 10 in the capital city, positioning those neighborhoods for tax incentives. The designation, created in the sweeping GOP federal tax legislation, rewards private investment in low-income communities,...
Virtus Investment Partners Inc., the Hartford-based asset management company that has become known for its fast growth, is relocating in downtown to offices once occupied by the headquarters of United Technologies Corp. Virtus has signed a lease for about 65,000 square feet of space at One Financial...
The spring home buying market in Greater Hartford got a healthy boost in April, with home sales and prices both showing gains compared with the same month a year ago, a new report Thursday shows. The median sale price of a single-family house rose 7.1 percent, to $225,000 in April from $210,000...
Connecticut employers cut 1,400 jobs in April, the second consecutive month of job losses, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. In addition, labor department officials said more jobs were lost in March than initially expected, revising the number to a loss of 3,500 from an initial 2,000....
As I introduced myself to neighbors in my first week back in my hometown of East Hartford, people asked a common question: “Why did you move back?” When I was young, my father rarely spoke about his childhood. When he did, it usually had a common theme: struggle and pain. The scars he reluctantly...
Connecticut will likely legalize sports betting now that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened that door by repealing the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. This state desperately needs the money it could reap from getting in on that action. And sports betting is everywhere, as anyone...
Before the ink was dry on our new tax bill, outraged blue states were screaming about the cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes. Their governments were also frantically seeking ways around it, and small wonder. For decades, high-tax states with a lot of wealthy residents enjoyed a hefty...
He had no run-ins with police, was an honor roll student and had been praised for his defensive work on the junior varsity football team. Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, projected a nondescript demeanor, a quiet loner who regularly wore a trench coat to school, even on scorching hot days. He had been...