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For the 2013 Secretary of the State's annual poster contest, Secretary Merrill honored 40 students - selected from a field of more than 500 entrants from nearly 50 participating elementary schools - for their posters depicting acts of good citizenship happening in their community.

An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo and brutally beating to death a Patas monkey will spend up to a year in state prison, where he'll take part in a treatment program.

In an effort to encourage recreational use of it's parks and increase access to healthy activities the City of Hartford , MECA and Downtown Yoga Studios and Cycled Energya have teamed up to present a summer yoga series in Greater Hartford parks.

Health care advocates are pushing for a higher cigarette tax. They want to raise the tax by 95-cents. The current rate is $3.40 per pack.

The Connecticut Board of Regents is expected to approve the recommendation of Gregory W. Gray as the system's new president.

Chris Hedges , senior fellow at The Nation Institute. He was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times for 15 years and was part of a team of reporters that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of global terrorism.

Attorney General Eric Holder is defending the Justice Department's seizure of the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press.

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.

It might not be unusual for schoolchildren to write to the president or vice-president. But one Wisconsin boy got an unexpectedly personal response.

In Japan, huge concrete structures called tetrapods sit on the beach, designed to fortify coastal areas by dissipating the waves, which can become unruly.

The chairman of the Republican National Committee says Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over the decision by the Justice Department to secretly obtain two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press.

The man who attacked and raped a runner on Fern Street in West Hartford in October 2010 is scheduled to be sentenced next week to 18 years in prison for the crime.

Shortly after 8 p.m. Monday police found Bloomfield resident Javar Preston, in the area of Blue Hills Ave.

Hartford parents are calling for more security at the Fred D. Wish school after two people were caught after breaking into the school early Tuesday morning.

In the dozen years that the landmark Hartford Times building has stood vacant, there has been only one serious proposal to redevelop the property.

Gun Owners Who Give Up Firearms To Receive Gift Cards Follow Your Town News On The Courant's Hartford Facebook PageThe city's three trauma centers, law enforcement and now the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association are urging gun owners to hand over their unwanted firearms in exchange for grocery money.

More than 300 chorus, orchestra and band students will perform alongside the Hartford Symphony Orchestra on May 23 at the Bushnell.

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.

Saundra Kee Borges, who was named the city's chief operating officer in March pending city council approval, withdrew from consideration for the job Monday.

The Justice Department has secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists for The Associated Press in what AP's top executive says is an "unprecedented intrusion" into newsgathering.