13+ hour, 35+ min ago   (975+ words) Special education programs face a funding crisis this year that cannot be solved unless Connecticut reforms controversial state budget caps that have diverted billions of dollars to pay down pension debt, Comptroller Sean Scanlon said Tuesday. The state’s chief fiscal…...

14+ hour, 41+ min ago   (404+ words) A California man who was involved in a Danbury kidnapping and bitcoin robbery scheme in 2024 has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Adam Iza, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to 180 months in prison followed by…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (371+ words) It is official visit season for the UConn men’s basketball program, which has a number of top-rated Class of 2027 recruits scheduled to come see the campus and get a feel for Dan Hurley’s operation. Bowman Jr., an impressive 6-foot-3 combo…...

2+ day, 53+ min ago   (395+ words) After deciding in a landslide vote to spend $250,000 for attorneys, Plainfield taxpayers are preparing to tell state regulators why they vehemently oppose allowing a massive trash-to-energy plant in their town. Roughly 90% of voters at a referendum endorsed the town hiring…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (104+ words) Hartford Courant Today is Tuesday, Sept. 8, the 251st day of 2026. There are 114 days left in the year. On Sept. 8, 2016, California and federal regulators fined Wells Fargo a combined $185 million, alleging the bank’s employees illegally opened millions of unauthorized accounts for their…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1148+ words) And then the party started. The scammers — a network of young men in their late teens or early 20s — celebrated the August 2024 heist by embarking on a wild spending spree. They purchased fleets of sports cars, flew on private jets, hired…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (161+ words) State and local police are searching for a New Haven man, 32, who on Sunday went missing in a jet ski accident on the Connecticut River. DEEP Environmental Conservation Police responded Sunday to the report of an accident near the Bissell…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (525+ words) Los Niners salieron de California el miércoles pasado, llegaron a Australia el viernes y estaban listos para su primera práctica de la semana de partido el lunes en AAMI Park, en Melbourne, sintiéndose en su mayoría descansados después de que…...

4+ day, 46+ min ago   (1430+ words) A 2024 Connecticut law mandates hospitals maintain safe nurse-to-patient ratios at least 80% of the time. But healthcare unions representing thousands of hospital workers claim that few hospitals are in compliance with the law and that state oversight is lacking. The issue,…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1274+ words) Five years after debuting a deeply unconventional strategy to put up affordable apartment buildings across Connecticut, New York-based Vessel Technologies is looking to have tenants move into its Avon and Rocky Hill locations this winter and possibly open its long-delayed…...