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Democrats in Connecticut and New York are reasserting their traditional edge over GOP candidates who just weeks ago were making it a tight race. There's more: Democrats have made gains in Washington, Delaware and California, and could retain their seats in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Nevada.

Former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate for US Senate in Connecticut, says she will limit herself to two terms if she is elected Nov. 2.

Hours before their debate, the Republican candidate for Senate in Connecticut released a video showing her opponent suggesting he served in the Vietnam War, though he did not.

The former mayor of Stamford will try to be the first Democrat to win the Connecticut governor's mansion since 1986, while wrestling executive Linda McMahon will take on Richard Blumenthal for the state's open Senate seat.

Authorities say several people were killed when a warehouse worker who had been told to resign opened fire at a beer distributor in Connecticut.

A severe storm packing ferocious winds tore through Connecticut's largest city Thursday, toppling trees and power lines and collapsing several buildings as a powerful line of storms swept across parts of the Northeast. Remarkably, no serious injuries were reported...

The Connecticut men’s basketball program, coached by Jim Calhoun, received notice of eight major rules violations, and two assistants have resigned because of them.

An attorney says Sandy Herold — the Connecticut woman whose chimpanzee mauled and blinded her friend — died Monday night of a ruptured aortic aneurysm.

Police in one Connecticut city have a warning for nightclub patrons: Don't call 911 for a ride home.

Witnesses and police say a Connecticut man drove his car into a stone wall, went airborne and landed on the roof of an accountant's ...