WINSTED – The Board of Selectmen is gearing up for another budget season. The board approved a schedule on Tuesday night for preparing the spending plan for the 2018-19 fiscal year, which begins on July 1. By March 15, the…

WATERBURY – The severe cold weather that had hovered over the region for most of the holiday break impacted temperatures in some of the city’s public school buildings when classes resumed across the city for the first school day of…

MIDDLEBURY – U.S. Attorney John H. Durham announced the arrest of a Waterbury man on federal charges stemming from two armed robberies in Middlebury last month. Zachary Provost, 32, allegedly robbed the Mobil gas station, 750 Straits Turnpike and the…

WATERBURY – A morning shooting Tuesday outside of Waterbury Superior Court left a man with a gunshot wound to the leg, which authorities suspect is tied to escalating violence between groups in the city. Multiple pops of gunfire were heard…

SOUTHBURY – Calvary Chapel opened a storefront in Bennett Square on Main Street South 20 years ago to host services for its 30 members. Since then, the church has grown to 350 members, leases seven storefronts and has two services…

WATERBURY – The Board of Parks Commissioners on Tuesday turned down two competing proposals to rename the North End Recreation Center for upstanding African American men whose lives were cut short. The seven-member board unanimously voted to instead ask both…

TORRINGTON – A Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered a city man with an extensive history of drug convictions held on $150,000 bond. In doing so, Judge Paul Matasavage rejected public defender James Longwell’s bid to have Damon Spencer, 41,…

WATERBURY For more than a century, Joseph P. Nolan’s family has used Old Saint Joseph Cemetery for its burial grounds, including for several generations of veterans. That’s one of the reasons it’s so distressing, he said, to see the ragged…

KENT Tim Groski has delivered much more than packages during his years in Kent. The United Parcel Service driver retired Friday after 40 years of service, 33 of them in Kent. The familiar brown truck, which wends its way along…

BURLINGTON – State police arrested a Burlington man on drug and weapons charges following a seven-month undercover investigation by state and Bristol police. Gregory J. Hebert, 45, of 51 Main St., was arrested on Dec. 27 and will be arraigned…

STATE – Connecticut State Police responded to nearly 500 accidents, two of which were fatal, during the four-day New Year’s holiday. Police on Tuesday announced that they responded to 494 accidents during the enforcement period that started at 12:01 a.m….

WATERBURY – Waterbury will get a winter festival if William DeMaida has anything to say about it. DeMaida, a member of the city’s Board of Parks Commissioners, got approval Tuesday to lead an ad hoc committee planning a winter festival….

TORRINGTON — Ousted Torrington Middle School Principal Valerie Bruneau filed a lawsuit in Torrington Superior Court on Tuesday against the city’s Board of Education and Superintendent Denise L. Clemons. Bruneau, who was hired in May and fired in September of last…

LITCHFIELD — Because of the sub-zero temperatures and snow forecast for Thursday, Louis The Coin Colavecchio’s appearance at the Litchfield-Morris Rotary Club has been postponed. A new date will be set by the end of the month. Related

WATERBURY – A brazen morning shooting outside of Waterbury Superior Court has left a man with a gunshot wound to the leg and has closed a portion of State Street. Multiple pops of gunfire were heard at about 11:15 a.m….

HARTFORD — Waterbury Mayor Neil M. O’Leary took over Monday as the president of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, a statewide association representing 166 of the state’s 169 towns and cities. O’Leary has been mayor of the state’s fifth largest city since December 2011….

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The basketball rivalry between Duke University and the University of North Carolina battle is legendary, but a federal lawsuit says the two elite institutions have agreed not to compete in another prestigious area: the market for…

Close to half of the nation’s largest public universities do not track suicide deaths among their students, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Through public records requests, the AP asked the 100 largest public universities in the U.S….

HARTFORD (AP) — The Connecticut Supreme Court is expected to issue decisions and hear arguments in a variety of notable cases in 2018, including a newspaper’s quest for documents that belonged to the Newtown school shooter and Kennedy cousin Michael…

HARTFORD (AP) — U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy are planning to go to Puerto Rico to meet with local officials and see firsthand the work that remains to recover from Hurricane Maria. Blumenthal and Murphy say they’ll spend…