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- Will signed week before heavy metal star Oliver Herbert’s death part of police probe
Sunday - 01/13/2019 - 12:34 PMState police investigating the drowning death of heavy metal star Oliver Herbert in Stafford Springs have examined a will signed by Herbert a week before his death at a Hartford car dealership, multiple sources close to the probe said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Rudy Giuliani's 'truth isn't truth' comment tops list of most notable quotes of 2018
Tuesday - 12/11/2018 - 02:10 PMThe assertion that "truth isn't truth," made by a personal attorney for President Donald Trump, tops a Yale Law School librarian's list of the most notable quotes of 2018. Rudy Giuliani's statement came in an August interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" when he told host Chuck Todd that Trump might...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cromwell superintendent placed on leave amid investigation
Tuesday - 12/11/2018 - 01:40 PMFollowing an anonymous complaint, the head of Cromwell schools was placed on leave Tuesday night by the town's board of education. The nature of the complaint was not discussed publicly.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- With a jab at Trump, Connecticut kicks off 2020 Census count
Tuesday - 12/11/2018 - 03:05 PMConnecticut launched a campaign Tuesday to count the state’s 3.6 million residents in the 2020 Census, kicking off the project with a partisan jab at President Donald Trump. The census, required by the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- In booming job market, workers are leaving their employers with little notice
Wednesday - 12/12/2018 - 10:45 AMEconomists report that workers are starting to act like millennials on Tinder: They're ditching jobs with nary a text. "A number of contacts said that they had been 'ghosted,' a situation in which a worker stops coming to work without notice and then is impossible to contact," the Federal Reserve...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - State files rebuttal fighting Cheshire killer Joshua Komisarjevsky's claim for new trial
Wednesday - 12/12/2018 - 03:50 PMJoshua Komisarjevsky doesn’t deserve a new trial in the 2007 Cheshire murders, the state’s attorney’s office said Wednesday in a legal brief with the Supreme Court arguing to reject his appeal, which is based in part on the failure of the state to turn over a series of police phone calls from the...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nearly 85 percent of UN nations back migration deal; not U.S.
Monday - 12/10/2018 - 09:36 AMDefying fierce opposition from the United States and a few other nations, nearly 85 percent of the countries at the U.N. agreed Monday on a sweeping yet non-binding accord to ensure safe, orderly and humane migration.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Nearly 60 detained in New England immigration raids
Friday - 12/07/2018 - 03:30 PMDozens of people suspected of living in the country illegally were apprehended in a series of sweeps in New England this week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday. Agents arrested 58 people in raids in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut, officials said....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Family of gangster James "Whitey" Bulger plans wrongful death suit
Monday - 12/10/2018 - 12:35 PMThe family of gangster James “Whitey” Bulger is planning a wrongful death suit against the government to learn why the 89-year old, wheelchair-bound gangster was transferred to a violent prison where he was beaten to death within hours of his arrival.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump administration presses court to allow military to restrict transgender troops
Monday - 12/10/2018 - 02:30 PMThe Trump administration pressed a federal appeals court Monday to allow the U.S. military to restrict service by transgender men and women, calling it "truly extraordinary" that judges throughout the country have stood in the way of its policy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- State connects 280 homeless families to housing
Tuesday - 12/11/2018 - 04:30 PMNearly 550 homeless children and their families have been housed over the past three months as part of the state’s push to end youth and family homelessness by the end of 2020, Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Neighborhood park planned for crucial parcel on Hartford's Albany Avenue
Tuesday - 12/11/2018 - 03:00 PMOnce a bustling police substation and recreation center for teens, a city-owned parcel on a prominent stretch of Albany Avenue is now envisioned as a neighborhood park replete with a new basketball court, walking trail, covered seating and ornate landscaping.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- El Pollo Guapo has expanded to Hartford’s Front Street, and there are nachos
Tuesday - 12/11/2018 - 04:05 PM‘The Handsome Chicken” has a new city address. El Pollo Guapo, Wethersfield’s popular rotisserie chicken concept, opened its second restaurant Dec. 5 on Front Street in Hartford. Owners Heather and Roy Riedl first announced plans to take over the former Qdoba space back in October.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Former national security adviser Michael Flynn's lawyers ask judge to spare him prison time
Wednesday - 12/12/2018 - 10:17 AMLawyers for President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn are asking a judge to spare him prison time, saying he had devoted his career to his country and taken responsibility for an "uncharacteristic error in judgment." The arguments to the judge Tuesday echoed those...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New Jersey sports betting market closing in on $1B mark
Wednesday - 12/12/2018 - 04:00 PMNew Jersey's sports betting market is closing in on the $1 billion dollar mark after less than six months of operation. Figures released Wednesday by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement show New Jersey's casino and racetrack-based sports books took in over $330 million worth of bets in November....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Five Hartford police officers, shot on duty, are posthumously honored
Wednesday - 12/12/2018 - 05:00 PMTwo years ago, while talking to a friend, retired Hartford Police Sgt. Thomas Elwood learned that a fellow officer who was shot on duty never received a citation for his valor.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Increase in minority teachers not keeping pace with influx of minority students
Monday - 12/10/2018 - 09:30 AMHundreds more minorities have become teachers over the last 10 years following several changes that made it easier to become an educator in Connecticut, but the growth hasn’t kept pace with the influx of Hispanic and Latino students entering public schools.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Donald Trump resumes taunting of Richard Blumenthal on Twitter
Monday - 12/10/2018 - 11:00 AMThe preoccupation of Donald Trump with Richard Blumenthal is still very much a thing, with the president referring to Connecticut’s Democratic senator as “the Dick” in a fresh round of Twitter taunts.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Brexit deal in turmoil as Theresa May postpones Parliament vote
Monday - 12/10/2018 - 06:12 PMFacing almost certain defeat, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday postponed a vote in Parliament on her Brexit deal, saying she would go back to European Union leaders to seek changes to the divorce agreement.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 'Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun': Trump defiant in series of spelling-challenged tweets about Russia, Michael Cohen
Monday - 12/10/2018 - 09:05 AMWhere there’s “smock,” there’s fire. President Trump once again claimed that there was "no collusion" with Russia and took more shots at his former lawyer Michael Cohen in a series of spelling-challenged tweets early Monday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- El Pollo Guapo has expanded to Hartford’s Front Street, and there are nachos
Tuesday - 01/01/2019 - 08:30 AM‘The Handsome Chicken” has a new city address. El Pollo Guapo, Wethersfield’s popular rotisserie chicken concept, opened its second restaurant Dec. 5 on Front Street in Hartford. Owners Heather and Roy Riedl first announced plans to take over the former Qdoba space back in October.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- France shooting: At least 3 killed, more wounded in Strasbourg attack, official says
Tuesday - 12/11/2018 - 08:55 PMFrance's interior minister says a gunman "sowed terror" in three parts of the eastern city of Strasbourg, including a famous Christmas market, with a shooting spree that killed three people and left six others with serious injuries.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Christmas tree farmers' campaign: Buy real, not artificial
Tuesday - 12/11/2018 - 03:30 PMRosa Villarreal's three young sons jumped and ran around the field of Christmas trees like jackrabbits, their excitement palpable as they raced from evergreen to evergreen. The boys, ages 2, 4 and 6, were picking out a real tree this year — a new tradition their young parents hope will create lasting...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Theresa May survives no-confidence vote, but Brexit troubles still loom
Wednesday - 12/12/2018 - 08:45 PMBritish Prime Minister Theresa May survived a political crisis over her Brexit deal Wednesday, winning a no-confidence vote by Conservative lawmakers that would have ended her leadership of party and country. But the margin of victory — 200 votes to 117 — leaves May a weakened leader who has lost...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - National Enquirer owner admits it buried stories to help Trump's presidential run
Wednesday - 12/12/2018 - 08:10 PMThe parent company of magazines including the National Enquirer, Us Weekly and In Touch has admitted to engaging in a journalistically dubious practice known as "catch-and-kill" in order to help Donald Trump become president.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Wild razzle-dazzle as Dolphins shock Patriots 34-33 on last play of game
Sunday - 12/09/2018 - 04:35 PMMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Kenyan Drake ran the last 52 yards as the Miami Dolphins scored on a pass and double lateral on the wild final play Sunday to beat the Patriots, 34-33.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Saint Francis Hospital now Hartford's third Level I trauma center
Monday - 12/10/2018 - 03:25 PMSaint Francis Hospital and Medical Center has been verified as a Level I trauma center, one of three in Hartford and four in Connecticut. The 617-bed hospital, part of the Trinity Health Of New England network, was recognized in mid-November as a Level I trauma center by the American College of...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In possible plea deal, accused Russian agent case 'resolved'
Monday - 12/10/2018 - 11:31 AMA woman accused of being a secret agent for the Russian government has likely taken a plea deal, prosecutors indicated Monday in a court filing that said her case has been "resolved." The information was included in a filing in the case against Maria Butina.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- At NPR, an army of temps resents a workplace full of anxiety and insecurity
Monday - 12/10/2018 - 01:45 PMJulia Botero was happy to catch on, and determined to stay on, at NPR. After completing an internship at the public broadcasting organization in D.C. in 2013, she began a year-long stint as a temporary employee, moving between producing jobs at NPR's signature news programs, "All Things Considered"...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Work on Colt Park playing fields in Hartford to begin as early as spring
Monday - 12/10/2018 - 12:35 PMWork on a series of baseball and softball fields at Colt Park could begin as soon as this spring, following the awarding of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the city for repairs and upkeep.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share