HARTFORD – Connecticut workers are expected to pay $3.3 billion more in withholding taxes between and now the April deadline for filing their state income returns for 2017. Through Friday, income taxes that are deducted directly from working people’s paychecks…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Connecticut residents will still get their mail and Social Security checks, but the shutdown of the federal government will reverberate through state agencies, especially those that are most reliant on federal grants and federal workers. A look…

BRIDGEPORT (AP) — The Hollywood film on the life of the founder of the Barnum & Bailey circus is stirring new interest in the man, P.T. Barnum, who besides his turn as a master showman was a state legislator, philanthropist…

HARTFORD (AP) — A former college student has appealed a Connecticut judge’s rejection of his request for anonymity as he sues the school over his suspension on cheating allegations. The former Trinity College student filed an appeal with the state…

    WATERBURY – Police identified the victim who was fatally shot on Hill Street Friday night, and a search is on for the gunman who remains on the lam. Jose A. Cuevas, 49, was shot and killed inside the…

JACKMAN, Maine (AP) — The town manager of a rural Maine community says he’s the leader of a racial segregationist group, and he believes the United States would be better off if people of different races were to “voluntarily separate.”…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of federal employees began their weekends gripped with doubt, uncertain of when they’ll be able to return to work and how long they’ll have to go without being paid after a bitter political dispute in Washington…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown has begun. So has the finger-pointing. President Donald Trump says Democrats wanted to give him “a nice present” to mark the one-year anniversary of his inauguration. He says Democrats “could have easily made a…

HARTFORD – The Malloy administration is reporting the state deficit has widened to $240.2 million, primarily due to revised revenue estimates released Tuesday. The new deficit projection is $17.7 million higher than the state Office of Policy and Management reported…

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…

WATERTOWN – Police arrested a Middlebury man in connection to the armed robbery of the Davis Street 7-11 earlier this week. Thomas Gaffney, 34, of 2006 Straits Turnpike, was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree robbery with a deadly weapon,…

WATERBURY – A man is dead after a shooting at a Hill Street market, one of two shootings in the city Friday night. The victim is a 49-year-old Hispanic man, according to Waterbury Police spokesman Deputy Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo. The…

WATERBURY – In a decision that could indicate the outcome of multiple criminal cases, a jury in Waterbury Superior Court on Friday found an accused heroin dealer arrested in a major police operation not guilty of slinging the deadly narcotic…

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…

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…