Litchfield County News

Meghan Baker, 7, of Enfield, embraces a tree while her family hunts for the perfect one at the Hemlock Hills Christmas Tree Farm in Somers on Sunday Nov.

Playwright A.J. Gurney , novelist Roxana Robinson and University of Connecticut English professor Lynn Bloom will be the panelists for a discussion about the impact writing can have on human rights when the Litchfield County Writers Project concludes its fall series "Justice, Injustice and Human Rights" at the Torrington campus of the university.

Ken Mann , of Danbury, couldn't believe his good fortune Thursday afternoon. He drove to the Main Moon Chinese restaurant near the Four Corners on Federal Road without getting stuck in one of the road's traffic jams.

To some, Robert Reinhardt , the former dean of students at the Gunnery, was an openly gay man who befriended and counseled students uncertain about their own sexuality.

Traffic began flowing along the Route 7 bypass around noon on Thursday. After more than 30 years in the making and about two years of construction, the new highway connecting Fairfield to Litchfield County was open to traffic.

Before he became a political operative, Chris Healy worked as a reporter at the Register Citizen in Torrington.

A federal appeals court says it is disturbed by allegations that some prosecutors have long denied low-income defendants their right to arraignment and free legal representation when they first appear in court.

Upon taking a close look at the latest Q-poll, there seems to be some numbers within the data that makes absolutely no sense.

It is a bright, Indian summer afternoon in the Litchfield Hills, and the downtown streets of this tourist mecca look invitingly peaceful.

One of the collateral rewards we get each year for living in Connecticut is our spectacular display of fall foliage.

Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, who met three years ago in a Hartford drug-treatment center and shared a room in a halfway house in between stints in prison, were both seasoned burglars, though Hayes, a forty-four-year-old crack addict, was quite a bit older than Komisarjevsky, who was twenty-six, and the great-grandson of a Russian ...

A 64-year-old woman has died after contracting swine flu. She died Tuesday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in New London .

Fall is a great time to hit the Connecticut wine trail while you take in New England's foliage .

A health official says the second wave of the swine flu pandemic is hitting Connecticut.

Toni Dessereaux sees giving to the United Way of Western Connecticut as the best way to ensure charity dollars are spread around to those most in need in southern Litchfield County.

Union Savings Bank officials announced today a merger with The First National Bank of Litchfield.

A Litchfield County marketer with exclusive rights to manufacture certain Michael Jackson memorabilia was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for dodging taxes and hiding money from the IRS .

Over the years, George and Betty Jepson of Winsted have enjoyed many road trips together.

The surprise snow that fell Thursday across Connecticut and much of the East Coast could be a harbinger of things to come this winter, according to a meteorologist with AccuWeather.com . "It's certainly unusual to have snow this early, especially compared to recent years," said AccuWeather meteorologist Brian Edwards.

A group in Litchfield County sued the city of Waterbury in 1995 for its decades-long policy of draining the Shepaug River almost dry every summer to supply Waterbury with drinking water.