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Sonia Osuna beamed as she declared the woman in a white dress and the woman in a suit standing before her as life partners.

PRIDE IN THE YELLOW VEST Tony Daversa on a break from work at the rest stop in Danbury, Conn., has lived at the Southbury Training School since he was a young teenager.

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A federal bankruptcy judge Friday approved a plan to transfer most of the nursing homes in the Haven Healthcare chain to new owners and place four facilities in receivership.

The team reinvestigating the 1998 killing of Yale University senior Suzanne Jovin is circulating a sketch of a man spotted running near the scene, a potential breakthrough that was quickly dismissed a decade ago by investigators who focused instead on Jovin's thesis adviser.

Sources familiar with the case said a Hamden woman was driving slowly north on Whitney Avenue in New Haven's East Rock neighborhood shortly before 10 p.m. on Dec. 4, 1998, when the man ran in front of her car, glanced quickly at her and fled.

State health officials say mosquitoes trapped in Bridgeport two weeks ago have tested positive for the West Nile virus.

Donations to food banks, soup kitchens and other agencies have dropped just as scores of new visitors are seeking help to feed their families, according to directors of several local organizations.

Five of Haven Healthcare's nursing homes would be put under state receivership until new buyers are found while the rest of the chain would be split among three real estate investment firms, under a plan expected to be presented today in bankruptcy court.

In documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Haven, lawyers for the Haven chain are asking the state Department of Social Services to take over the operations of Haven nursing homes in Waterford, Danielson, Windham, Norwich and Farmington until permanent buyers can be found.

NEW YORK : A fugitive hedge-fund swindler who had been on the run for nearly a month since a faked suicide on a Hudson River bridge surrendered Wednesday in Massachusetts, the U.S. attorney's office said.

A former Seymour woman who helped plan an Edgewood Park robbery in New Haven that ended up killing the victim has received a 10 year sentence.

A Bridgeport federal grand jury has indicted five people, including the operators of Danbury and Bridgeport businesses on money laundering charges involving millions of dollars.

State lawmakers expressed frustration Friday with the skyrocketing price tag of a commuter rail maintenance center in New Haven, with some suggesting alternatives to the $1.2 billion project.

WATERBURY, Conn. Police and automotive experts say over-the-top attempts by some drivers to boost their gas mileage could be endangering them and other motorists.

For the first time in more than 50 years, the 4th Congressional District will hold a Democratic Primary after candidate Lee Whitnum successfully collected the 2,459 signatures from registered Democrats to put ...

A 25-year-old Southbury man is under arrest on several charges after police allegedly found a heroin syringe in his 2-month-old daughter's crib.

Matthew Hanock, 8, checks out the prairie dog colony from an enclosed viewing station at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport Tuesday.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A man being sought by police for questioning in a series of traffic accidents was arrested after crashing his truck in a state police garage in Connecticut.

In wake of the Secretary of State's announcement of a Democratic primary for the 24th State Senate seat, Duane Perkins and Terry Tierney kicked their campaigns into high gear with a series of press releases and ...

Rep. Christopher Shays lashed out at the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday for what he sees as an arrogant refusal to consider Fairfield County families as the FAA reshapes air traffic in the ...

James Smith, editor of the Connecticut Post in Bridgeport for three years, says he has left the newspaper.