SOUTHINGTON — The husband of a second-grade teacher here says his wife has resigned after controversy over her appearance on a satellite radio shock jock's show.   Read More »

NEW HAVEN (AP) _ Details of a sex scandal involving a top South Korean official and an art history professor, who lied about having a Yale degree, will be used by the Ivy League school to defend   Read More »

MILFORD — Amid the bustle of his workday at Alarcon Tire, the young Burmese immigrant wiped the grease from his hands and took a moment to check the Internet — his only bridge between his   Read More »

WATERBURY — A few weeks before Bridgeport cut all ties to Alex Conroy and his proposed billion-dollar Steel Point project, the state urged the city to do so.   Read More »

TRUMBULL — First Selectman Raymond G. Baldwin Jr. on Thursday was awaiting clearance from doctors to return home after a car accident a day earlier in Shelton.   Read More »

BRIDGEPORT — They represent the human side of the city's budget crisis — a half-inch-thick stack of layoff notices sent to selected city workers.   Read More »

A Maryland man was arrested Monday on a State Police warrant accusing him of sexually assaulting a girl in the Milford rest area of Interstate 95 northbound a year ago.   Read More »

Maybe the decision will come down to the economy. Maybe it will hinge on how a presidential nominee performs. There may be plenty of factors figuring in this year's race between the likely contenders   Read More »

Lance Cpl. Robert Beres, of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, recently named trooper of the year there, says he owes everything to Fairfield. In 1972, Beres, then 2 years old, and his parents moved   Read More »

BRIDGEPORT — Forty-seven year-old Gerson Torres got a library card for the first time Wednesday night. In earlier years, Torres' pursuits were far from literary — addiction to illegal   Read More »

MONROE — A key piece of state legislation has been approved to open the way for the Jewish Home for the Elderly to create a $200 million facility.   Read More »

BRIDGEPORT — The owner of a tractor-trailer school shut down by the state this week vows to fight the action, saying Thursday that he won't leave students in a lurch.   Read More »

BRIDGEPORT — The problem was how not to get mugged or lose a $5 bill stuck in a sock while on the way to Harborview Market. The solution, for Timothy Kleps, 13, was his New York Mets cap.   Read More »

STRATFORD — Two weeks ago, former Stratford police detective Richard C. Bennett drowned while fishing in a canoe in the frigid waters of Woodbridge Lake in Goshen.   Read More »

HARTFORD — The House and Senate co-chairmen of the Government Administration & Elections Committee never reached a compromise on ethics reform in the dying hours of the General Assembly session.   Read More »

HARTFORD — The General Assembly will go into special session, probably next month, to vote on extending a real-estate conveyance tax that generates $40 million a year for towns and cities,   Read More »

WASHINGTON — Despite a threatened presidential veto, the House approved legislation Thursday that aims to help families stay out of foreclosure and stabilize the nation's teetering housing   Read More »

State Chief Justice Chase Rogers says she will support a plan to lift a ban on camera phones in state courthouses. Addressing members of the Greenwich Bar Association Wednesday night, Rogers said the   Read More »

DERBY — A Derby High School teacher placed on paid leave after an altercation with a black student — an incident that sparked calls for the teacher's arrest by the teen's mother and a   Read More »

WALLINGFORD — The overcast weather Thursday morning matched the gloomy atmosphere at Our Lady of Fatima Church, where family, friends and co-workers gathered to say farewell to Tom Gersz.   Read More »

BRIDGEPORT — They represent the human side of the city's budget crisis — a half-inch-thick stack of layoff notices sent to selected city workers.   Read More »

HARTFORD — Officials from several states say Facebook has agreed to implement more than 40 safeguards to protect younger users. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says   Read More »

EASTON — A stretch of Black Rock Turnpike will be closed off Friday night into Saturday morning for the filming of a new movie. Scenes for the comedy, "Farlanders," will be filmed from 6:30 p.   Read More »

HARTFORD — Speaker of the House James A. Amann stood at the House dais Wednesday, 151 mostly occupied desks in front of him, the cacophony of democracy filling the air.   Read More »

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FAIRFIELD — Some came clutching flowers. Others held fast to each other. On a brilliant spring afternoon, when the bright promise of nature's rebirth was in the air, Wednesday was a day of loss   Read More »

WATERBURY — FBI agents asked Charles Willinger Jr., a Bridgeport lawyer, to wear a wire and record conversations with former Bridgeport Mayor Joseph P.   Read More »

SHELTON — Trumbull's top elected official escaped serious injury Wednesday afternoon when he blacked out while driving on Beardsley Road and struck a utility pole.   Read More »

HARTFORD — A bill that aims to help struggling homeowners caught up in the subprime mortgage mess is headed to Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who said Wednesday she will sign it into law.   Read More »

WASHINGTON — Rep. Rosa DeLauro has stepped up her accusations of a secret Pentagon program to shape public perception of the Iraq war, urging the Federal Communications Commission to   Read More »

STRATFORD — Members of the Charter Revision Commission on Wednesday heatedly debated whether the Town Council should have the authority to reject mayoral appointments of top town   Read More »