SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A veteran educator from Connecticut has been named by Massachusetts officials to serve as receiver for the Southbridge public schools. Jeffrey Villar will oversee the school district that was placed in state receivership last January after…

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A submarine commander is praising the way his crew responded when a sailor intentionally shot himself aboard the Groton, Connecticut-based vessel. The USS North Dakota was about 170 miles from the base on Jan. 12…

SOUTHINGTON — Democratic and independent candidates for governor offered highway tolls, higher fuel taxes and even a mileage tax as solutions to the state’s transportation funding challenges. The issues of transportation and how to save the Special Transportation Fund from insolvency…

BROOKLYN, Conn. (AP) — A state trooper has had his police powers suspended after being charged with driving under the influence on New Year’s Day. State police said Thursday that 47-year-old Trooper Patrick Dragon was arrested Jan. 1 in Brooklyn….

STAMFORD (AP) — An Oregon man has been charged with stealing deposits Connecticut homeowners had made for generators after Superstorm Sandy. Local media reports that 56-year-old John Mech, of Seaside, Oregon, took a $7,500 deposit from a Stamford homeowner for…

HARTFORD (AP) — A Stratford man has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for running a large-scale fencing operation. Federal prosecutors say 43-year-old Matthew Harwood will report to prison March 19 after being sentenced Thursday to 18…

HARTFORD (AP) — Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and two U.S. Senators Thursday decried a surprise decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to immediately rescind temporary housing benefits to 36 Puerto Rican families living in the state after being…

NEW BRITAIN (AP) — A 15-year-old shot by police is facing armed robbery charges. Local media reports Caleb Tisdol’s name was made public Thursday after being charged as an adult in Hartford Superior Court. He faces first-degree robbery, larceny, threatening…

EAST HAVEN (AP) — A 21-year-old West Haven man has been charged with getting an underage high school student pregnant. Local media reports that Joshy Alberto Garcia was charged this month with second-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to…

SALEM (AP) — A former attorney has been charged with stealing $426,000 from his clients. State Police say 65-year-old John Butts, of Salem, has been charged with first-degree larceny after taking funds from two people he had represented in probate…

NEW BRITAIN (AP) — A 15-year-old shot by police is facing armed robbery charges. The Hartford Courant reports Caleb Tisdol’s name was made public Thursday after being charged as an adult in Hartford Superior Court. He faces first-degree robbery, larceny,…

NEW HAVEN (AP) — A bank manager accused of stealing more than half a million dollars from the accounts of elderly clients has been sentenced to just over a year in prison. Forty-seven-year-old Carrie Caesar was sentenced Thursday after pleading…

HARTFORD – Leaders of a new state panel recommending how to make Connecticut more financially stable are optimistic the General Assembly will seriously consider their recommendations because there’s recognition a crisis is at hand. Jim Smith and Robert Patricelli, co-chairmen…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s governor and two U.S. Senators want the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reverse a surprise decision that rescinds temporary housing benefits to 36 Puerto Rican families living in the state after being displaced by Hurricane…

SALEM, Conn. (AP) — A former attorney has been charged with stealing $426,000 from his clients. Connecticut State Police say 65-year-old John Butts, of Salem, has been charged with first-degree larceny after taking funds from two people he had represented…

BRIDGEPORT (AP) [–] Authorities in Bridgeport are investigating the discovery of two decapitated chickens inside a courtroom. Judicial marshals and maintenance staff investigating a putrid smell made the grisly discovery Wednesday morning in the public seating area of a courtroom…

HARTFORD (AP) — A Connecticut man accused of fatally stabbing a man who bumped into him has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The Hartford Courant reports that 21-year-old Tequile Walwyn faces up to 10 years in prison under the terms of…

GREENWICH (AP) — A former theater teacher at a Connecticut private school has been sentenced to two years’ probation for sending inappropriate text messages to a 15-year-old student. Local media reports that 25-year-old Jesse Lozano, of New York City, pleaded…

HARTFORD AP) — Federal prison officials say former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland has been transferred from a Pennsylvania prison to a halfway house to finish his sentence for campaign fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. The 60-year-old Republican, who…

HARTFORD — Democratic and Republican leaders are expecting the legislature to override Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on the Medicaid Savings Program. The governor’s veto of legislation that restored income eligibility limits appears unlikely to stand because veto-proof majorities of the House…