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A jury awarded a woman struck in the head by a bowl of pasta at a Connecticut restaurant more than $100,000.

A Catholic high school student has been allowed to remain at school and display her sticker in support of abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

Anti-Catholic bigotry has been stirred over a Catholic student who was told to remove a Planned Parenthood sticker from her laptop.

Tayler Ivy Boncal, a student teacher at Conard High School in West Hartford, Connecticut, has been charged with sexual assault after she engaged in a consensual sexual relationship with an 18-year-old student.

A group of secularists who regularly dispute public displays of religion during the Christmas season sent a letter to a Republican Connecticut senator condemning his volunteer efforts as a bell-ringer for the Salvation Army. They claim he is promoting an “overtly Christian mission.”

A pair of 20-year-old friends may have just become the youngest black Republicans ever elected to public office in Connecticut, according to reports.

A Connecticut college student who allegedly smeared bodily fluids on her roommate’s things is now facing criminal charges in an incident that is being labeled as a hate crime.

MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough officially left the Republican Party and registered as an unaffiliated voter Thursday in his home state of Connecticut.

Eight Democratic state lawmakers in Connecticut have broken with their party to back a budget crafted by their colleagues across the aisle in what the state’s Senate Republican leader calls a “change of course” in Hartford.

A photo of a Connecticut police department giving its K9 officer an emotional farewell before he is put down is tugging at the heartstrings of many social media users.

Stamford, Connecticut, could be the latest city to outlaw texting while walking if city officials get their way.

Food stamp enrollment went down over the past year in 46 out of 50 states, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics on food stamp enrollment.

An ex-convict living in a halfway house is being praised for jumping off a city bus to run to the aid of a car accident victim despite knowing that he would miss an important job interview in the effort.

A former Connecticut high school teacher appeared in court Tuesday alongside her husband after she was accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old special education student.

Moody’s credit rating service warned on Wednesday that new tax hikes by Illinois’ Democrat-controlled legislature, which over-rode a Republican governor’s veto, may still leave the state insolvent and subject to its debt being the first in the nation to be downgraded to “junk.”

As Orange County, Ca. was making its final bankruptcy bond payment to end its 23-year bankruptcy reorganization; Illinois, Connecticut, and Maine went into default shut-downs after failing to pass state budgets before the start of their July 1st fiscal years.

The editorial board of the Connecticut Law Tribune is recommending state lawmakers consider the regulation of homeschooling in order to evaluate the potential for child abuse by parents and assure the level of instruction is “equivalent” to what is offered in public schools.

A woman leaped in front of a car barreling into pedestrians on a sidewalk to save a boy’s life, police say.

Aetna confirmed Wednesday it will move its corporate headquarters out of Hartford, Connecticut, due to “the fiscal problems and leadership of our state.”

An Imam in New Haven, Connecticut, is facing deportation after being ordered for removal out of the U.S. for allegedly defrauding a foreign national visa program.

A congressional candidate who formerly worked in IT but was replaced by an H-1B guest worker says Americans should have “some input” over their jobs being outsourced.

At the end of May, it will be three years since former tech employee Craig Diangelo was laid off and forced to train his foreign replacement through the H-1B visa.

Puerto Rico’s world-record $116 billion bankruptcy filing represents a massive liability risk for auditors who will likely demand that highly-indebted states — such as Connecticut, Illinois and California — disclose more liabilities, write down assets, and curtail debt issues.

A Connecticut police officer saved a man from committing suicide by jumping off a roof, according to footage taken from the officer’s body cam.

Keri Marie Carlson is a waitress at a Connecticut restaurant and was walking a customer to his table when he noticed she had trouble hearing him. Carlson told the man one of her hearing aids was broken, and the man

A married high school drama teacher in Connecticut had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student that included her performing sexual acts with the student on a classroom couch and a failed attempt at candle-lit sex behind a costume rack, police said.

A Connecticut man wore a T-shirt that reads, “Hold My Beer and Watch This” in his mugshot after he was arrested for allegedly riving under the influence (DUI) early Monday morning.

A high school in Connecticut has accepted a new boy on their track team. Except, he won’t be going to the boys track team, he’ll be going to the girls team.

Raul Carlos Monarca-Gonzalez, a Mexican citizen, 40, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years supervised release on Friday in federal court in Hartford, Connecticut, in connection with a massive food stamp fraud scheme, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office.

A college student died after choking on pancakes during a pancake-eating competition at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, officials said.

Illegal immigrant parents in Connecticut are afraid of signing up their children for free or reduced-price school lunches over fears they could be deported.

A bill proposed by Democrat state Sen. Ted Kennedy, Jr. would require all Connecticut residents to be automatically registered as organ donors – unless they choose to opt out.

The treasurer of Connecticut is crediting President Donald Trump’s election with the 13.43 percent net return on the state’s pension fund.

Police charged an illegal alien from Guatemala with sexually molesting a three-year-old girl in the ‘sanctuary state’ of Connecticut.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP) issued an executive order Thursday instructing the state department of education to develop policies with local school districts that allow gender confused children to use the school bathrooms and locker rooms of whichever gender they identify with at any given time.

The Democrat Governor of Connecticut has ordered the state’s law enforcement officers to ignore President Donald J. Trump’s immigration orders and policies to the greatest extent possible.