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Joshua 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...

Corina Zukowski, the 25-year-old Waterford native stabbed to death Monday night at the Starlight Inn in East Lyme, had decided to end her relationship with her boyfriend of two years, Avery Hallbrooks, 28, according to family members and police. She threw Hallbrooks’ possessions out of the motel...

Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, an associate professor of English at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, has been named the first poet laureate of Hartford. Knowles is 45 and lives in the Parkville section of Hartford with his wife, Valerie. He grew up in Norwich, and his poetry collection,...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez will retire from her seat in Hartford in October, the federal judiciary announced Wednesday. Martinez is one of eight federal magistrates in Connecticut, three of whom are retired but continue to work when called back on an as needed basis. Unlike U.S. district...

The National Endowment for the Humanities this week announced $14.8 million in grants to support 253 projects nationwide, including five in Connecticut. The local fundees are: University of Connecticut: $60,000 to Africana Studies Prof. Martha Cutter, to complete her book, “The Lives and Afterlives...

In the rush of the holiday season, shoppers can easily fall victim to thieves who target their wallets and purses, the gifts they’ve just bought or even their cars, Bristol police warn. “With the holiday season upon us, incidents of theft and robbery tend to increase,” said Capt. Edward Spyros,...

In 2018, the state took the unusual step of issuing a consent order requiring a New Haven nursing home to hire an independent nurse consultant and implement minimum staffing ratios after inspections at the facility uncovered numerous lapses in care and safety violations. The order, agreed to in...

Sandy Hook Promise released a chilling new public service announcement this week that shows the lead-up to a school shooting from the perspective of the shooter. The video, called “Point of View,” is set in a high school as students are focused on a student body president election. Sandy Hook Promise...

Nearly 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. Dannel P. Malloy announced Wednesday. State agencies and nonprofit providers matched 280 families — including 548...

With nine license approvals announced Tuesday, Connecticut has doubled its number of medical marijuana dispensaries while widening the geographical footprint of the fast-growing program. The new facilities will span from Windham to Torrington and down to New Haven and Stamford, bringing the total...