Hartford Courant: Travel

A victim of a pedestrian hit-and-run that occurred Thursday evening has died, Waterbury police say.

After months of low infection rates through the summer, steadily rising COVID-19 infections in Connecticut and across the country have Gov. Ned Lamont and public health leaders warning about the danger of increased travel as the state heads into the holiday season.

A man who allegedly tried to kill a woman he didn't know in a random, violent crime in New Canaan last spring also tried to rape her, police say.

Home sales in the Hartford metro area ranked the third highest in the country in September in a new national survey released Thursday.

A woman who state police say was driving drunk on I-84 in Waterbury Thursday night was arrested after she collided head on with a trooper.

Joining a growing list of lawsuits targeting colleges and universities over the response to COVID-19, a University of New Haven student sued his school Thursday for failing to provide an appropriate refund when school officials canceled in-person classes and moved students online last spring during the height of the pandemic.

Facing a surge in car thefts, car break-ins and tire thefts, West Hartford police are waging a social media campaign to get residents to step up security.

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Last week, Gov. Lamont suggested Connecticut may strengthen its travel rules. Then on Monday, he said the state would relax its rules. Now, he's saying the rules actually won't change — except that they won't apply to New Jersey or New York.

The shooting is only the second since Friday, when Hartford officials announced 15 state police personnel would be dispatched to the capital city to try to quell a weeks-long spike in gun violence.