Connecticut Government News

ARTFORD, Conn. - Authorities say a Wethersfield man is charged with running a 12-year scheme that defrauded investors of more than $20 million.

Two Connecticut teens are dead after one lost control of the car they were inside and struck a tree in Shelton.

Up until last month, state marshals made heavy use of a small room in the Department of Motor Vehicles in Wethersfield when they phoned the Law Enforcement Communications office for people's last known addresses.

The Hartford Courant is being sued by a smaller, family-owned newspaper that is seeking damages for what it calls repeated plagiarism.

Connecticut lawmakers learned that the state's budget woes may get much worse in 2012, possibly growing to $3.4 billion from the current $385 million.

ATLANTA a ' When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.

Howard Lam, left, and Emily Lu, 3-year-old cousins, wait outside a H1N1 clinic in West Hartford Wednesday.

Former state Sen. Thomas J. Herlihy Jr. of Simsbury was arrested on drunken driving charges early Wednesday by Enfield police.

There's been lots of buzz in Connecticut that one of the five Republican candidates looking to challenge Sen.

Opponents of torture have spent the past seven years advocating for a halt to the brutal excesses of the "War on Terror" from the Bush Administration's rejection of the Geneva Conventions for detainees in Afghanastan to the waterboarding of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Gay and lesbian couples marked the one-year anniversary of the day Connecticut began allowing same-sex marriages, voicing optimism that other states eventually will follow suit despite recent votes in Maine and California where gay-marriage rights were shot down.

Changes made five years ago to a Connecticut law aimed at revealing medical mistakes at hospitals have allowed the facilities to keep more errors secret, according to a Hartford Courant analysis.

Just two days after AT&T union workers in the company's Southwest region ratified a new contract after a long dispute, we've learned some employees in the Northeast might be no closer to a deal than they were several months ago.

This marvelous photo of the Connecticut legislature is making the rounds, occasionally mislabeled as a photo of the U.S. Congress: An accompanying article in the New Haven Register tracks the nasty fallout from the discovery that politicians totally get sick of each other yapping all the time.

Connecticut authorities say a car smashed through the front windows of a nail salon and ended up halfway into the shop, injuring eight people.

A Connecticut businessman was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Tuesday for conspiring with others to corrupt the oil privatization process in Azerbaijan .

The star attraction at New York's Rockefeller Center this Christmas will be a 76-foot Norway spruce from Connecticut.Crwes planned to cut down the 10-ton tree Wednesday morning at the Easton home of school teacher Maria Corti.The spruce will be hoisted by a crane onto a trailer and transported about 50 miles to New York City.

President Barack Obama's Democratic Party, which lost two state governorships last week, drew hope for winning the governor's office in Connecticut next year after the Republican incumbent said she would not run for re-election. Jodi Rell, in office since 2004, said on Monday she would not seek another term, setting the stage for a wide-open ...

Connecticut authorities say Interstate 95 in Fairfield is closed in both directions as crews clean up a tanker truck fire and officials check for roadway damage.

A group of Hartford activists went door to door Sunday, trying to persuade residents in the North End to refuse services from Connecticut's Department of Children and Families.