Hartford News

The Good Purpose Gallery, 40 Main St., will host Writers Read, a monthly series of established poets and writers reading from their works, at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 24.

Stamford has eclipsed Hartford as Connecticut's third largest city, after growing by more than 2,200 residents between July 2010 and July 2012, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

According to the town highway department, milling work on Addison Road between Griswold Street and the East Hartford town line will start June 6. Milling and paving work has begun along Oak Street in East Hartford to the town line.

A free program on the history of the Latino vote in Hartford will be held Wednesday at St.

There are two vehicles involved, according to a traffic alert from the state Department of Transportation.

Registration is open for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center's big event, the Stowe Prize Big Tent Jubilee, which will take place on May 30 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on the Stowe Center grounds, 77 Forest St., Hartford.

Central Connecticut residents are invited to share their opinions about local bus service, the Dial-a-Ride program and the potential for passenger train service in the city when a state panel convenes a hearing Wednesday evening.

No one was injured in the fire in a 3 1/2-story house at 33 Blue Hills Ave. The fire, which was reported about 2:50 a.m., was brought under control in a little more than an hour, said Capt.

The shooting was reported shortly before 6:30 p.m. from the Mt. Sinai campus of St.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art on Thursday, May 23, will host a one-night-only screening of a critically acclaimed film about Israeli's Orthodox Hasidic community.

After a months- long narcotics investigation into a drug trafficking organization in the greater Hartford area, investigators from the Statewide Narcotics Task Force were able to obtain 4 court-ordered arrest warrants for the main target, identified as Jose Guzman, each with a $250,000.00 court set bond totaling one million dollars.

Webster Bank, a leading regional bank serving businesses and consumers from Westchester County, N.Y. to Boston, Mass., is pleased to have hosted a Job Shadow opportunity for seven High School Inc.

Proponents of a bill that would require the labeling of genetically modified food rallied at the Capitol Tuesday in advance of an expected Senate vote.

The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford has an exhibit that runs until June 16th entitled Burst of Light: Caravaggio and His Legacy.

The portrait of a Madison soldier killed in Afghanistan earlier this year will be added to the Wall of Honor tribute in the State Capitol complex Thursday at the annual memorial ceremony for Connecticut troops lost since September 11, 2001.

U.S. Marshals have arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a mentally disabled woman multiple times in East Hartford, Connecticut and fleeing to Charlotte to avoid prosecution.

Hearing Officer Rejects DOT Plan To Close Flower Street Crossing To PedestriansA hearing officer on Monday dealt a startling setback to the politically powerful CTfastrak project, ruling that busway engineers cannot simply close off part of Hartford's Flower Street to pedestrian traffic.

Imagine there were a bill under consideration in the legislature that, if approved, would legalize marijuana use in Connecticut.

Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov.

Metro-North employees work at the site of Friday's train derailment in Bridgeport.