East Hartford News

Appropriately for National Burger Month, Connecticut has been celebrating Craft Beer Week .

The Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved legislation initiated and championed by Rep.

Two men accused of robbing a man after luring him to the East Hartford apartment of a female acquaintance appeared Tuesday in Superior Court.

The Connecticut Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness is pleased to announce that it will hold its 10th Annual Walk Fundraiser on Saturday, May 18th, 9-11:30 a.m. at Bushnell Park in Hartford.

Police Officer Woodrow Tinsley III, facing accusations that he used excessive force on a 12-year old boy, has been suspended for two weeks, Police Chief Mark Sirois said Monday.

The West Hartford Art League is taking their annual fundraiser to a whole new level this year by holding the event on the grassy roof overlooking their grounds and sculpture garden.

As the first anniversary approaches of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's signing legislation allowing Sunday liquor sales, it seems the success of that initiative depends on where you are.

VFW Post 7659 and its Women's Auxiliary are sponsoring a "Support our Troops" collection and packing event on Sunday, May 19, 12 to 3 p.m., at South Congregational Church, 1301 Forbes Street, East Hartford .

The likelihood of layoffs at Pratt & Whitney is high, according to a company email sent Friday to alert salaried workers of a new round of buyouts.

Cabrera Services Inc., East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee, multi-year contract with a maximum value of $450,000,000 for environmental remediation services at the Maywood Superfund site.

When Hartford's suburbs began to flourish in the years after World War II, it was often courtesy of businesses that had been in Hartford.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a total of $1 million to Hartford and East Hartford to clean up industrial pollution.

Connecticut's beer producers, distributors and retailers are launching a campaign to highlight the state's burgeoning craft beer industry and encourage consumers to buy locally produced beers.

On May 19, from noon to 3 p.m., the group will be seeking donations of socks, towels, twin bed sheets and pillowcases and snack items, such as beef jerky, nutrition bars, iced tea and lemonade mixes, microwave popcorn and small jars of peanut butter.

Student volunteer firefighters from UConn and Eastern Connecticut State University practice pulling a hose from an engine at the Mansfield Fire Department alongside veteran firefighter John Levasseur, third from left.

When Susan Mitchell of Glastonbury hosted a student from Spain in the summer of 2009 through EF Educational Homestay Programs, she got an unexpected bonus of lasting friendship between her family and the student.

Raymond J. Sprague , senior vice president of Small Commercial insurance for The Hartford, will be a featured speaker at the Tenth Annual Partners in Achievement Breakfast to support the financial literacy, workforce readiness and entrepreneurship programs of Junior Achievement.

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Jessica Lee Motulski, 29, pleaded guilty Feb. 27 to three counts of fourth-degree sexual assault, and was sentenced in Superior Court Friday to three years in prison, suspended after 75 days, and three years' probation.

The craft beer industry has been booming over the last decade. Nowhere is that more apparent than right here in Connecticut, where new craft breweries are opening up seemingly every year.