NEW YORK – Papa John’s founder John Schnatter will step down as CEO next month, about two months after he criticized the NFL leadership over national anthem protests by players – comments for which the company later apologized. Schnatter, who…

NEW YORK – Papa John’s founder John Schnatter will step down as CEO next month, about two months after he criticized the NFL leadership over national anthem protests by players – comments for which the company later apologized. Schnatter, who…

NEW YORK – Papa John’s founder John Schnatter will step down as CEO next month, about two months after he criticized the NFL leadership over national anthem protests by players – comments for which the company later apologized. Schnatter, who…

SOUTHBURY – On Thursday morning Liz Burgess wore a holiday sweatshirt Pomperaug High School students designed especially for her. “I’m an English teacher, that’s why I have Edgar Allan Poe on my sweatshirt,” she said. Her shirt sported a drawing…

HARTFORD – Job growth has slowed significantly since peaking in the second quarter of 2017, the state Department of Labor reports. “You can’t deny the fact that we now have a full-blown crisis in jobs,” said Peter M. Gioia, chief…

TORRINGTON – Weronika J. Kalwara, 89, passed away Dec. 20, 2017. Funeral is 9:30 a.m. Saturday from Gleeson-Ryan Funeral Home, 258 Prospect St., Torrington, to St. Mary’s Church, 85 Pulaski St., Torrington, for Mass at 10. Burial: New St. Francis…

WATERBURY – Police are investigating multiple burglaries of stores in recent weeks, the latest being a break-in Wednesday at a city business.. A man with a hood pulled over his head broke into a smoke shop on Watertown Avenue and…

WATERBURY – A 25-year-old suspected heroin dealer who was caught in a city bust last year was charged Thursday with selling lethal doses of the drug to at least three people, two of whom later died. Andre Reed, of Waterbury,…

SOUTHBURY – Southbury Senior Center buses this week delivered gift bags to 122 patrons living at Heritage Village, giving them an emotional lift during the holidays. Director Tamath K. Rossi said the center is a facilitator, sorting, bagging and delivering…

WATERBURY [–] Police charged an 80-year-old newspaper deliveryman in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash that took the life of a beloved 75-year-old woman who was crossing Cooke Street last week. Geraldine “Geri” LaPio was severely injured Dec. 12 when…

Pete Lembo has seen both sides of major college football as the head coach at Ball State and now as an assistant at Maryland. At Ball State in the Mid-American Conference, a simple decision like buying black helmets for the…

Pete Lembo has seen both sides of major college football as the head coach at Ball State and now as an assistant at Maryland. At Ball State in the Mid-American Conference, a simple decision like buying black helmets for the…

MIDDLEBURY – A long legal dispute over a proposal to build an age 55-and-older housing project on White Avenue, known as Straw Pond, may end with the town buying the 18.48-acre property. A court ordered mediation between the town and…

WATERBURY – Police found a car riddled with bullets on Waterville Street Tuesday evening. A complaint of shots fired in the area of 95 Waterville St. was reoprted at about 6:26 p.m. Tuesday evening. The caller reported they heard seven or eight…

WATERBURY – Police say they have charged a city teenager with attempted murder in connection with a Willow Street shooting that left a man with a gunshot wound to the neck earlier this month. Police said Tuesday that they charged 18-year-old…

TORRINGTON – Police say Michael Truskauskas beat, strangled and threatened his girlfriend with a knife, shoved her down the stairs, tried to break her fingers and cut her hair after accusing her of cheating. Truskauskas, 22, of 55 Whiting Ave….

TORRINGTON – Police say Michael Truskauskas beat, strangled and threatened his girlfriend with a knife, shoved her down the stairs, tried to break her fingers and cut her hair after accusing her of cheating. Truskauskas, 22, of 55 Whiting Ave….

WOLCOTT – Patricia (Monroe) Holcomb, 59, devoted wife of John Holcomb, died suddenly at her home on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017. Born in Waterbury on Dec. 8, 1958, she was the daughter of the late Ernest “Dick” and Ruth (Seymour)…

PLAINVILLE – Mrs. Barbara (Medaglia) Jensen, 79, of Plainville, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, surrounded by the love of her life. She was the beloved wife of John P. Jensen. Barbara was born in Bronx, N.Y., on…

If you wonder what is wrong with Connecticut, here it is in a nutshell. Over the last 30 years, we have allowed state leaders to have conflicts of interest. The most blatant have been on the Democratic side. For example,…