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Thirty people have been arrested in Connecticut and New York in a drug case focusing on both sellers and buyers, including some suburban residents who the police say traveled to […]

Five students from a high school in Madison, Conn., have been arrested and charged with possessing steroids that two of the boys purchased while on vacation in Mexico. The students […]

OPEN the Web page for Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, a major manufacturer of .50-caliber rifles, and a video begins. A soldier is hidden in thick brush, the scope of his rifle […]

THE funeral last Monday for Timothy and Kimberly Ann Donnelly drew about 900 mourners to St. Augustine Cathedral in Bridgeport. The Donnellys were killed on Feb. 2 at their jewelry […]

It was the test scores that first got people outside of Connecticut interested in Amistad Academy, a charter school here. In a city where 31 percent of eighth graders achieved […]

AT least it wasn't the volcano alert. A message crawled across television screens Tuesday afternoon advised residents throughout the state to evacuate from 2:10 to 3:10 p.m. It was alarming, […]

Whether Michael Bruce Ross, the Connecticut serial killer whose execution was postponed yesterday, has the right to decide to die could boil down to whether the courts accept a relatively […]

IN 1647, Alice Young of Windsor was convicted of witchcraft, and became the first recorded person in the state to be executed. There are few mentions of her execution in […]

MURDER may be the surest ticket to the death chamber in Connecticut, but 350 years ago, witchcraft was the crime most likely to result in a death sentence. From 1647, […]

A leading expert on international corporate governance has stepped down from his position at the Yale School of Management because of 'financial misconduct and irregularities,' according to a university spokesman. […]

FOR Gov. M. Jodi Rell, breast cancer was a public battle before it became a personal one. Over the past decade Mrs. Rell, who was well enough after her breast […]

ATTENTION, long-suffering New Haven Line customers of Metro-North: Don't believe the good commuting news imparted last June by John G. Rowland as he left the Connecticut governorship in the midst […]

WHEN the word 'guilty' was spoken by former Gov. John G. Rowland, it gave voice to the suspicions people inside and outside of government had harbored for a year. The […]

ONE of the final pieces of good news delivered by former Gov. John G. Rowland before he left the Capitol amid an impeachment investigation appears to have been overly optimistic. […]

AS the state continued its investigations into driver's license fraud at the Department of Motor Vehicles this month, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced a plan to change the way first-time […]

COACHES can't lie: The sight of a 17-year-old who returns from summer break with 25 extra pounds of chiseled muscle makes them smile. It gets them thinking about state championships, […]

IN a flurry of activity over the past five years, towns throughout Connecticut have passed laws to stop parents from holding house parties where alcohol is served. Thirty-nine towns have […]

A YEAR after suffering through a winter of delays, Metro-North Railroad riders will soon have to absorb more fare increases, and even more bad news is on the horizon. Metro-North […]

GOV. M. JODI RELL received the highest job approval rating Quinnipiac University has ever recorded for a Connecticut governor in a poll released Tuesday, indicating that residents have become familiar […]

STATE investigators have spent more than a year trying to catch Department of Motor Vehicles employees accused of selling fake driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Hundreds of licenses and registrations […]

It was noon on Sept. 11, 2001, when Kevin Dempsey called his Marine recruiter and told him he had made up his mind: He wanted to join. Marc T. Ryan's […]

IF the election of 2004 is remembered for a great wave of Republican victories, then Connecticut felt the undertow, which tugged the state gently to the left and opened up […]

The police in Greenwich and Rye, N.Y., say they have been on the alert for a man and a woman they suspect of trying to lure children into a green […]

THE election of 2004 may be remembered for changing the way people feel about their role in democracy, for pushing them to the polls in numbers not seen in more […]

THERE was an electricity on Election Days in Connecticut in the 1950's and 60's. Each city's wards buzzed with news of who had voted and who had to be called […]

AT a fist-pumping rally in Groton this month, the union men and women clapped, whistled and yelled for Jim Sullivan, the Democratic nominee for Congress from the Second District. Their […]

INCREASED prices for home heating oil and decreased available aid are expected to hit poor residents especially hard this year. Heating oil costs are expected to increase up to 30 […]

ON April 12, a 16-year-old boy entered the dorm room of two students at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, asking for help with his French homework. […]

ALTHOUGH advocates for sexual assault victims said educating colleges about how to deal with sexual assaults on campus has been a challenge, the state is making headway. Connecticut, they said, […]

THE State Supreme Court has thrust itself into a debate over whether Connecticut courts can send a child of divorced parents to a religious school over the objection of one […]

A statue of Mary that was left unscathed after an explosion demolished a church in Colchester earlier this month has become a pilgrimage site for people throughout the area, some […]

AT the condominium complex on Hospital Avenue in Danbury, there are few words more frightening than 'immigration.' Many immigrants live in the complex, so when two men knocked on the […]

UNTIL the word 'guilty' actually came out of Jefferson B. Davis's mouth, people who knew him simply could not believe that he had harmed a young boy. Not Jeff Davis. […]

FRANK RIESS started leaving ominous articles out for his wife weeks before the Republican National Convention. Norma Riess, a delegate from Redding who was scheduled to leave today for the […]

BARBARA W. TUCHMAN used to hike up to a tiny wooden cabin, no larger than 100 square feet, on her Cos Cob estate, to sift through notecards of research and […]

AT 2 p.m. last Tuesday, primary day in Connecticut, the sun-drenched streets of Chester were deserted and Shaun McNally, who was running for Congress in the Second Congressional District, was […]

AT a time when government ethics has become a leading issue in the state, a dispute over a vote on the Finance Board in New Milford is emerging as a […]

IF everything is going well inside the womb, Laura Howard's baby has a four-chambered heart now and is making its first real movements, opening its jaw and stretching. The baby […]

WITH all of the scandals in Connecticut over the past five years, taxpayers are paying room and board at various prisons for officials who have been convicted of crimes while […]

The police yesterday linked a black 2000 Dodge Intrepid that they fished out of a pond in a New Haven park to a series of seemingly random drive-by shootings on […]

A series of five shootings in the city on Sunday and Monday, believed to have been committed with the same gun, prompted Gov. M. Jodi Rell to send state police […]

IN a picture on the office wall of Representative Raymond V. Collins, 28 Republicans stand proudly on the Capitol steps: the freshman class of 1985. There's M. Jodi Rell, in […]

FOR two days, the State Legislature's House committee considering whether to impeach Gov. John G. Rowland learned about Connecticut's ethics laws. The testimony was long and grueling and, according to […]

A HALF-DECADE of mounting political scandals have turned Connecticut into a punchline of political backwardness. With the governor's resignation last Monday, people inside and outside the state have tested some […]

SLOWLY and deliberately, the House Select Committee of Inquiry has sifted through evidence of gifts to Gov. John G. Rowland and the contracts his friends received. This is the story […]

The Old Greenwich train station was built in 1892, and although it was moved to its present location in 1895, it is virtually the same building where residents have been […]