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A man was fatally shot early Saturday morning in Hartford. Police said the 29-year-old man was shot at the corner of Affleck and Park streets around 5 a.m. Hartford Police Department's Major Crimes unit ...

The mayor said the selection committee overseeing the hiring process has identified Perez as one of the three finalists, along with John Oates of Granby and Peter Buonome of Avon.

A 41-year-old woman was arrested early this morning on charges that she stabbed two women on Sigourney Street in Hartford, police said.

A state prosecutor is urging a Superior Court Judge to send former Bloomfield dog trainer Adam Gault away to prison for 30 years.

David Zagaja asked Judge David Gold in Superior Court in Hartford to hand down a sentence of 50 years, suspended after 30, during a lengthy, highly anticipated sentencing hearing that began about 11 a.m.

Gault, 42, gained national notoriety after a West Hartford and Bloomfield police discovered a 14-year-old runaway girl in a crawl space in his West Harford home. The girl had been held captive for nearly a year.

About 50 to 60 people marched in front of Hartford City Hall Monday afternoon to protest recent school district layoffs and an increase in health insurance costs to district retirees.

Parking officials in Hartford, Conn., have defended a ban on scooters and motorcycles in city garages after environmentally-conscious commuters complained.

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Josephine Douglas' husband was cooking fried chicken on the stove when a fire swept through their Burnside Avenue apartment complex a few months ago.

He and the rest of the family rushed out of the apartment without remembering to turn off the stove, causing a second fire that heavily damaged the apartment and destroyed much of the family's furniture and clothing.

Douglas, an employee at the Village at Buckland Court senior living community in South Windsor, recalled Wednesday how the fire left her family in chaos.

State regulators said they began an investigation Wednesday into the finances of Southern Connecticut Gas Co., which earned $12.1 million more than authorized by the state over a 12-month period.

The investigation comes a month after the state Department of Public Utility Control opened a similar investigation into Connecticut Natural Gas Corp., a sister company to Southern Connecticut Gas. That probe is looking into CNG's earning at least $14 million more than authorized.

Both companies are owned by Energy East Corp., a regional utility based in New Gloucester, Maine. Southern Connecticut Gas serves 165,000 residents mostly along the shore from Westport to Old Saybrook, and Connecticut Natural Gas has about 155,000 customers in the Hartford, New Britain and Greenwich areas.

Dorothy Frasier said she's thrilled that a Farmers Market is coming to North Hartford, especially since its Coventry Street location is so close to her house.

Hartford _ A pick-up truck and school bus collided in Hartford this afternoon, sending three children to an area hospital.

This youth football program in Hartford, Conn. keeps kids off the street and out of trouble, but does not get nearly enough state funding.

Police confiscated over 500 bags of heroin early Monday morning after a traffic stop on Allen Place in Hartford, police said.

Marilyn Berrios, 19, was charged with narcotics, possession of narcotics with intent to sell, possession of narcotics within 1500 feet of a school, possession of narcotics with intent to sell within 1500 feet of a school, operating a drug factory, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance.

Officers began tailing Berrios on the 80th block of Weston Street where gunshots had been reported, police said. As officers arrived, they saw Berrios in a Cadillac that was pulling away, police said.

A man accused of cutting his 11-year-old son with a knife during a domestic dispute with his wife was arraigned on Monday in Manchester Superior Court.

Michael Bostick, 38, of 64 Elida Center, was charged with first-degree assault, risk of injury to a child, second-degree threatening, second-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree breach of peace, and interfering/resisting arrest at 10 Henderson Place early Monday.

According to police, Bostick's wife told investigators that she had lent her car to Bostick, and when he returned it, he was drunk and the two argued. Police said Bostick hit his wife with the keys, spit in her face twice and then tried to hit her, but her kids got in between them. Their 11-year-old son threw a chair at Bostick trying to keep him away from his mother, police said.

HARTFORD, Conn. More responsibilities and too few inspectors are hindering restaurant inspections, according to a newspaper's review of data.

A 55-year-old man has been charged with stabbing a woman Tuesday at a home on Vernon Street in Hartford, leaving her in critical condition.

The suspect, Willie Coleman, 55, faces a single count each of criminal attempt to commit murder and first-degree assault.

Officers dispatched to the home at 5:30 p.m. found the victim, a 44-year-old woman, suffering from stab wounds to the chest, police said. She was taken by ambulance to Hartford Hospital where she was listed in critical condition, police said.

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Two motorcycle drivers were killed and one of their passengers was seriously injured in a crash involving a tractor-trailer on I-91 north Sunday night, state police said.

One driver was identified by state police as Robert Ramkissoon, a 33-year-old man from Windsor.

The name of the other driver is being withheld until next of kin are notified. His passenger, Korey Morrison, 29, of South Windsor, was taken to Hartford Hospital with serious head injuries and spine and rib fractures, state police said.

Full- and part-time unionized employees of the Hartford Public Library voted overwhelmingly to roll back pay increases and hours that they had agreed to work during fiscal 2008-09 in an attempt to eliminate ...

The town council unanimously agreed to return a $400,000 school budget surplus to the board of education Tuesday in order to help preserve a critical program designed to help students learn to read in the earliest grade levels.

The school district normally would have turned the surplus over to the council to use as the town saw fit, but school board members said the money would be needed to continue providing the early reading program, which in the past had been funded through annual state grants.