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- Famous Crime Investigator Henry Lee To Address Manchester Community College Grads
Tuesday - 05/21/2013 - 08:49 AMFollow Your Town News On The Courant's Manchester Facebook Page
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Walker Delivers Pep Talk To State GOP
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 10:30 PM— Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin and hero to conservatives across the nation for his efforts to quash public employee unions, delivered a pep talk to Connecticut Republicans Monday night.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Surprise Setback For CTfastrak
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 06:47 PMHearing Officer Rejects DOT Plan To Close Flower Street Crossing To PedestriansA hearing officer on Monday dealt a startling setback to the politically powerful CTfastrak project, ruling that busway engineers cannot simply close off part of Hartford's Flower Street to pedestrian traffic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lawmakers Push Bill On Child Mental Health
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 06:21 PMHARTFORD -- Jennifer Maksel is a single mother who is seeking help because her family has been directly impacted by the tragedy of the Newtown school shootings.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jackson Lab Names Scientific Director For Farmington Location
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 11:24 AMCompany Chooses Harvard Genetics Expert Charles Lee MORE HEALTH-RELATED NEWSA Harvard genetics expert has been named scientific director of the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine on the campus of the UConn Health Center, the company announced Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bridgeport Man Crushed To Death Between Vehicle And Wall Identified
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 12:00 AMCity police are investigating the death of an Ash Street man Saturday morning.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Graduates Leave UHart, But It Won't Leave Them
Sunday - 05/19/2013 - 01:36 PMGet Business Mobile Text AlertsA commencement speech that touched on elephant excrement, the stupidity of drinking and driving, and Balzac's thoughts on the relations between the sexes delighted graduates of University of Hartford Sunday, so much so that they gave novelist and commencement speaker Bernard Cornwall a standing ovation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mansfield Woman Sentenced For Series Of Burglaries
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 08:33 PMBefore she was sentenced this week for burglarizing eight Mansfield homes and trying to break into lockers at a local health club, Kristin Gardiner could not suppress her larcenous ways, according to police and court officials.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Focus Of Braddock Trial Shifts To Checks
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 12:04 PMAn assistant to Robert Braddock, the finance director for former House Speaker Christopher Donovan's congressional campaign, testified Friday that Braddock instructed her not to deposit a campaign contribution from an employee of a roll-your-own tobacco shop.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Malloy Defends State's New Gun Bill At Forum
Thursday - 05/16/2013 - 10:20 PMFollow Your Town News On The Courant's Bristol Facebook PageAt a sparsely attended community forum Thursday night, Gov. Dannel P.
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- Council Cuts $8.6 Million From Segarra's Proposed Budget
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 10:44 PMFollow Your Town News On The Courant's Hartford Facebook Page— After hours of backroom deliberations and deal making, the city council on Monday voted to cut $8.6 million from Mayor Pedro Segarra's $543.9 million budget proposal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Manchester Police Conclude Student's Drowning 'Tragic At Best'
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 09:31 PMReport Finds No Cause For Prosecution In Malvrick Donkor's Death In High School Pool Follow Your Town News On The Courant's Manchester Facebook PageA fledgling swimmer, Malvrick Donkor had stayed away from the deep end of the pool at Manchester High School, fellow students told police.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Accused East Hartford Doctor Fires Attorney As Jury Selection Is To Begin
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 05:24 PMDr.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Yale Awards 3,084 Degrees, Along With Honorary Degrees for Sotomayor, Levin
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 02:48 PMRetiring Levin Gets Lengthy Standing Ovation At His Last Yale CommencementYale presented honorary degrees to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer and to Vincent Cert, one of the "fathers of the Internet," but it was the surprise honorary degree for Yale's retiring President Richard Levin that won the longest and most heartfelt standing ovation at Monday's graduation ceremony.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Boyfriend To Be Arraigned In ECSU Student's Death
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 09:18 AMThe man charged with killing Eastern Connecticut State University student Alyssiah Wiley has a pending custody and child support case with another woman, state court records indicate.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Willimantic Police Say Heroin Found In Suspect's Shorts
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 12:00 AMPolice arrested a suspected drug dealer Saturday after finding heroin in the rear of his gym shorts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Small Plane Crashes In Plymouth
Sunday - 05/19/2013 - 12:00 AMA small plane crashed into heavy brush about 1,500 feet shy of a Waterbury Airport runway Saturday afternoon.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bristol Debates Where West End Voters Should Cast Ballots
Sunday - 05/19/2013 - 12:00 AMFollow Your Town News On The Courant's Bristol Facebook PageWarning that a new polling place is so inconvenient to reach that it amounts to voter suppression, Democratic Registrar Mary Rydingsward is pressing city officials to choose a new location for the November balloting.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Catholic Leaders Call Faithful Back To Confession, Report Some Success
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 11:24 AMThere's an iPhone app for confession.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Board of Regents Approve New President
Thursday - 05/16/2013 - 05:42 PMThe Board of Regents for Higher Education hired its new president Thursday, officially completing the search that stemmed from controversy resulting in the previous head's resignation last fall.
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- New Britain Schools Ask For $5.3 Million To Buy Books
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 10:45 PMFollow Your Town News On The Courant's New Britain Facebook PageDespite the misgivings of two of its most fiscally conservative members, the board of education on Monday night agreed to seek $5.3 million to start replacing outdated textbooks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Yale Surgeon Recounts Moments After Train Crash
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 06:36 PMDr. Daniel Solomon, a chief resident in general surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital, was on the first car of the train heading toward New Haven for his 7 p.m.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Immigrant Taken Into Federal Custody, Faces Deportation After Appeal Fails
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 07:22 PMFollow Your Town News On The Courant's Hartford Facebook PageA New Haven man who became an advocacy case for state immigration activists was taken into custody in Hartford Monday and will be deported.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hartford's Milner School Chooses New Principal
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 12:06 PMCity School Board To Vote On Appointment Tuesday Follow Your Town News On The Courant's Hartford Facebook PageKaren N.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Braddock Defense Rests With No Witnesses
Monday - 05/20/2013 - 10:14 AMThe defense rested without calling a witness Monday in the trial of the campaign finance director for former Speaker of the House Christopher Donovan.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Graduating Into A Sunnier Job Market
Sunday - 05/19/2013 - 08:33 PMGet Business Mobile Text AlertsFor nearly 6,900 students who graduated Sunday at colleges around the state, the natural question is: What's next?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Hartford Wise Guy And A $500 Million Museum Heist
Saturday - 05/18/2013 - 09:38 PMIt was a shore dinner in Maine a decade ago that transformed Robert Gentile, an aging, unremarkable wise guy from Hartford, into the best lead in years in one of the world's most baffling crime mysteries, the unsolved robbery of half a billion dollars in art from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hartford Police Officer Plans 26-Hour Bike Ride To Honor Sandy Hook Victims
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 05:13 PMWhen he's not working, it is likely Hartford Police Sgt. James Elliott can be found on a bicycle.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Source: Police Investigating Whether Remains Belong To Missing ECSU Student
Friday - 05/17/2013 - 01:05 PMState police are investigating whether human remains found in a wooded area belong to a missing Eastern Connecticut State University student, a law enforcement source said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - At Hartford Public High School, A Day Reserved For 'Healthy Relationships'
Thursday - 05/16/2013 - 05:09 PMFollow Your Town News On The Courant's Hartford Facebook PageLights were off Thursday in the small student center at Hartford Public High School's Law and Government Academy.
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