Connecticut Government News Archives

Driver safety has been a main focus of Connecticut lawmakers in recent years. Since 2002, Connecticut has significantly upped restrictions on teenage drivers in an effort to curb driving fatalities.

The state has retained or created the equivalent of 6,110 full-time jobs with the federal stimulus funding it has received since February.

Ten Connecticut residents have filed a lawsuit accusing federal authorities of violating their rights by conducting an immigration raid in retaliation for a New Haven program that provided identification cards to foreigners in the country illegally.The sweeps in New Haven on June 6, 2007, came two days after the city approved issuing ID cards to ...

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Testimony is under way in a consumer fraud lawsuit filed by Iowa against a Connecticut company over discount buying programs.

Connecticut compares favorably with other states in a national report on child-abuse deaths released Tuesday, but the numbers are still stark.

Police said a Connecticut man was killed in Maine when he was ejected from a pickup truck and into a stream after the truck struck a bridge.

Connecticut's consumer protection commissioner has ordered a recall of some witch costumes sold at Walgreens stores because they contain twice as much lead as allowed by law.

(WTNH) -- President Obama will make a stop in Connecticut Friday to attend a fundraising dinner for Senator Chris Dodd, who is in the middle of a hotly contested re-election campaign.

The breaking news staffer is Sylvia Lee Wingfield, followed by Rodrique Ngowi at 5:30 p.m. The news editor is Patrick Sanders.

STORRS -- Jasper Howard's parents arrived in Connecticut on Monday to bring the body of the killed football player home to Florida.

HARTFORD -- More Connecticut troops are being sent to Iraq to train the Iraqi Army.

In September, I was on a long road trip. I was also pretty low on funds, but as evening came in Virginia, I was getting drowsy.

A new report shows Connecticut's bankruptcy rate has reached a four-year high. There were 6,289 Chapter 7 filings from January through September.

I wasn't impressed with the Connecticut Post stories over the weekend about Long Island Soundkeeper Terry Backer.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell has insisted that her staff rejected an adviser's suggestion to use public funds to conduct a poll of voters on budgetary issues soon after the suggestion was made, and that the issue was never discussed after the administration conducted a focus group instead in December 2008.

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a Connecticut construction partnership $51.5 million to build a new Army Reserve center in Middletown.

The family whose silver flying object has been all over the airwaves Thursday, has a Connecticut connection.

Toy news: Slow sales for Michele Bachmann action figure . If U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's popularity was judged by the sales of her new action figure, she'd be in trouble.

A Connecticut prosecutor requested Wednesday that search warrants continue to be kept under wraps in the case of a newsman accused of trying to blackmail David Letterman.

An attorney representing the owner of a chimpanzee that mauled and blinded a woman is calling the attack a work-related incident and said her family's case should be treated like a workers' compensation claim.

An audit of a 2007 data breach of state taxpayer's personal information on a stolen laptop shows the state took too long to address the situation but has since made strides to prevent future incidents.Two years ago, some 106,000 Connecticut taxpayers' names and Social Security numbers were compromised when an employee, now identified as Jason ...

The AAA says Connecticut gas prices have taken a tumble since last month, including a 21-cent drop in the average cost of a gallon of regular.

Police in Connecticut say a family fabricated a story claiming that it rescued three immigrant relatives from a kidnapper when a fight broke out.The story became known after the melee involving nearly 20 people in a Greenwich shopping center parking lot Aug.

Long Island Soundkeeper Terry Backer has made a career of going to court to force companies to stop polluting the waterway and clean Connecticut's coast.

About 75,000 delinquent Connecticut taxpayers are being sent letters from the state offering them a deal.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell was accused by Democratic leaders on Thursday of spending taxpayer money for political purposes by hiring a pollster to conduct focus group sessions on the state budget.

The Connecticut medical examiner's office has ruled the death of a 23-month-old Meriden boy a homicide by blunt force trauma to his abdomen.

As the Obama Administration today pushes for the American public to rally behind his proposed consumer financial services watchdog agency, officials in Connecticut renewed their fight against federal laws that prevent the state from investigating hundreds of complaints each year against large banks and other lenders.

A former Connecticut police officer has pleaded not guilty to allegations he posed as his twin brother to have sex with a woman, and then raped her when she realized the ruse and tried to leave.

Police in Connecticut say they have arrested a man after stopping a car full of explosives in a New Haven residential neighborhood.Authorities have not released the man's name.Officers say they stopped the car Tuesday night and found pipe bombs, rifles and a propane tank.

After declaring his candidacy for governor seven months ago, former House Speaker James Amann has been crisscrossing Connecticut, dutifully raising small contributions to qualify for $1.25 million in public campaign funds.

Several states have joined the U.S. government in granting time-limited leniency for taxpayers who have hidden funds in offshore bank accounts.

The nation's nursing homes are perilously close to laying off workers, cutting services - possibly even closing - because of a perfect storm wallop from the recession and deep federal and state government spending cuts, industry experts say.

In the biggest move in decades to renovate Connecticut's freight rail system, the state is seeking more than $109 million in grants to refurbish or rebuild deteriorated tracks in Middletown, Hartford, East Windsor, Danbury and elsewhere.

The state's cigarette tax and hundreds of fees just went up Thursday, but the state could already be accumulating a deficit of more than $500 million for the fiscal year that began July 1. That was the preliminary analysis from state Comptroller Nancy Wyman, who said that tax collections are far lower than originally expected for the year's first ...

Death penalty opponents in Connecticut plan to gather at the state Capitol to kick off a public education campaign about what they say are capital punishment's flaws.

Connecticut lawmakers have returned to the State Capitol to try and finish the last remaining budget bills.

HARTFORD -- A new fuel cell installed at the Connecticut Science center will produce most of its electricity.

Hartford - A new month brings new fee and tax increases in Connecticut. Starting today, the state's cigarette tax jumps from $2 to $3 a pack; most bottles of water will cost a nickel more because of an expanded bottle and can redemption law; and hundreds of state licenses and fees, ranging from a pet shop license to the cost of filing small claims ...

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