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The crew of the Coast Guard barque Eagle is planning to resume normal operations in 2021, including making international port calls, which w...

I certainly hope Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader from Kentucky, is a better lawyer than he is an economist.Seventy perc...

Kudos to Editorial Page Editor Paul Choiniere.It was a brilliant stroke of editorial judgment to juxtapose Kim Shinkoskey’s, “

What are we doing there?The spectacle of a sitting president flailing away at the democratic process that gave him the office is pretty rive...

Why hasn’t marijuana been legalized?Introducing tolling on Connecticut highways is resigning ourselves to the fate of a state like Delaware:...

When I was the athletic director at Robert E. Fitch High School, I went on a quest to find field space for some of our athletic teams so I w...

A Connecticut mayor has vetoed a common council’s decision to remove and store the town’s Christopher Columbus statue

Laboratories can only study marijuana from a single facility — in Oxford, Mississippi -- often thousands of miles away and different from th...

Few of us acknowledge the simple cruelty of confining farm animals for life even if we decry the specific abuses they commonly endure.

Norwich is joining an alternative teacher training and certification program and hopes to certify and hire four teachers of color upon compl...

Waterford facility will serve southeastern Connecticut, admitting individuals from hospitals and other congregate settings who have tested p...

The library media center at Groton Middle School is being named after retiring Superintendent Michael Graner.

The U.S. stands on the verge of adding a second vaccine to its arsenal as the coronavirus outbreak descends deeper into its most lethal phas...

Rhode Island is one of more than a dozen states told to expect fewer doses of the COVID-19 vaccine next week

Douglas Green began playing the organ in churches at the age of 13 and landed his first professional gig at the age of 16.

Vice President Mike Pence has received the coronavirus vaccine during a White House event aimed at convincing skeptical Americans that the v...

Tens of millions of people are expected to travel to family gatherings or winter vacations over Christmas

An inmate scheduled to be executed just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office has tested positive for coronavirus

One in every five state and federal prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, a rate more than four times high...

Lawyers say the U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention ce...

New Jersey lawmakers have passed a measure setting up a recreational marijuana marketplace

It’s a hurry up and wait moment on Capitol Hill as congressional negotiators on a must-pass, almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief pac...

A  U.S. government advisory panel has endorsed a second COVID-19 vaccine

West Hartford facility among five to get first nursing home doses; others haven't been publicly identified.

Arrests by state and local police around the region.