Wethersfield News

At left, Leha Guilmette, Mrs. Rhode Island America 2013, is one of the stars of Bravo's 'Game of Crowns', a series about the 'Mrs.' pageant circuit for married women.

This composite of Wethersfield police mug shots shows ex-hotel manager Jaimin "Jay" Malaviya, 29, of Greenfield, Ma.

Prostitutes operated openly on the fourth floor of the Comfort Inn on Silas Deane Highway, according to a yearlong police investigation, at times shocking other guests by appearing in scanty clothes at breakfast or in hallways.

Jolie Rocke Brown, a gifted, versatile vocalist from Wethersfield who's as much at home soaring on opera arias and celestial hymns as she is getting down with funky blues and earthy jazz, just might, at long last, have the whole world in her hands thanks to her new soulful album, " Rock of Ages : Hymns for the Soul."

Police are looking for the owner of a small white dog found on the side of the Berlin Turnpike near Cedar Hill Cemetery Monday morning.

Bliss Market, a grocery and fine food store in business since the 1930s, has closed and is unlikely to reopen, Planning and Economic Development Director Peter Gillespie said Wednesday.

When Wethersfield Mayor Paul Montinieri took the podium in Central Connecticut State University's Welte Auditorium in New Britain last Tuesday to deliver his address to the graduating Wethersfield High School Class of 2014, he had some tough acts to follow.

Though environmentalists feel it didn't go far enough, the state's recent ruling on tree trimming by utility companies injects balance and common sense into the process.

The Hartford Courant busemeyer@courant.com The two spans being replaced this weekend on Interstate 84 in Southington are not the only bridges in the state that need attention.

Democratic politician John Fonfara of Hartford has an embarrassing problem. He owes the IRS for unpaid taxes on personal income in 2008 and 2009.

Left to right: Tara Kowalski of Colchester, Kamila Orzechowski of Wethersfield, Hannah Milewski of Bolton, Nathan Zlotnick of Glastonbury and Peter Zujko of West Hartford.

State Sen. John Fonfara , D-Hartford, co-chairman of the legislature's tax writing committee, owes thousands of dollars in federal taxes, according to a lien on file at city hall.

Six local athletes competed against their athletic peers at the State Open Decathlon/Heptathlon.

The northbound side of the Berlin Turnpike near Wells Road in Wethersfield was closed Monday afternoon following an accident involving a motorcycle and another vehicle.

Come down to the Wethersfield farmer's market on any given Thursday through October and one of the first stands you'll see is Gingers' Jelly and Jams.

Amid a heroin and prescription-pill epidemic, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Tuesday promoted a new state law expanding access to an anti-overdose drug and protecting good Samaritans who might need to use it.

A news release from the Connecticut Department of Transportation: Upgrades to Pedestrian Control Features at Traffic Control Signals in Various Central Connecticut Towns The Connecticut Department of Transportation is developing plans to upgrade pedestrian control features at 16 existing state-maintained traffic control signals to include countdown ... (more)