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A former American sailor accused of helping support terrorism by leaking classified information about the whereabouts of Navy vessels in early 2001 told jihadist supporters that if they were not […]

The mother of a 26-year-old drug user who died shortly after the police stunned him at least four times with a Taser has sued the town of Hamden and the […]

Silver Hill Hospital was familiar to Ruth A. Farrell as a place of refuge, one she had sought more than a dozen times when life seemed too hard to bear. […]

Amid accusations that it shortchanged patients while it was diverting millions of dollars to a country music label in Nashville, Connecticut's second-largest operator of nursing homes filed for bankruptcy protection […]

Nearly five years to the day that a Stamford woman was found slain in her waterfront condo here, the authorities obtained a warrant on Nov. 6 to arrest a New […]

The United Methodist Church here is the kind of politically active place where parishioners take to the pulpit to discuss poverty in El Salvador and refugees living in Meriden. But […]

Michael C. Skakel, who was convicted five years ago of killing a neighbor, Martha Moxley, in 1975 when they were both teenagers in Greenwich, suffered a further setback on Thursday […]

The mother of one of the suspects accused in the slayings of a woman and two daughters in Cheshire, Conn., said she was suspicious when her son left their home […]

Cubicles built for four are crammed with eight inmates, and enclosed areas known as dollhouses where inmates once played cards and wrote letters now hold 14 bunk beds. The corridors […]

Anthony Apruzzese, a 17-year-old high school senior, used to joke on Facebook about his history of reckless driving. But on Thursday the kidding turned to horror as the car he […]

A Connecticut lawyer who destroyed a laptop containing pornographic images of children last year while he was advising the Greenwich church that discovered them pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court. […]

Along with plastic toys and bicycles, the backyard of the day care center was littered with broken glass and a rusting Toyota Corolla resting on a jack. Photographs of the […]

The Rev. Michael Jude Fay, a Roman Catholic priest, pleaded guilty yesterday in Federal District Court to charges of defrauding his parish of nearly $1 million from 1999 until 2006, […]

The Rev. Michael Jude Fay, a Roman Catholic priest with a taste for high living, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal charges of defrauding his parishioners of nearly $1 million […]

A woman who is accused of leaving her 14-year-old daughter in charge of a squalid day care center here while she traveled to Florida last week surrendered on Tuesday to […]

With roughly a dozen members of the Petit family sitting grimly in the front two rows, the two parolees accused of murdering three of their relatives during a brutal home […]

Dr. William A. Petit Jr., his head bloodied and legs bound, stumbled out of a rear basement door of his two-story home here into a pouring rain, calling the name […]

Throughout more than two decades in and out of Connecticut prisons for everything from stealing pocketbooks to possessing weapons, Steven J. Hayes was given many chances to turn his life […]

One of two men accused of burglarizing the home of a Connecticut woman and killing her and her two daughters told the authorities that he used to steal money and […]

Having committed a string of brazen nighttime burglaries by the age of 22, Joshua Komisarjevsky was facing serious time in a state penitentiary when he stood before Judge James M. […]

Two years ago, it appeared that the state youth prison here, a fortresslike compound whose scandal-scarred construction helped put the governor who built it into a prison cell of his […]

At least one of the two suspects in a home invasion that ended in the murder of a doctor's wife and her two daughters in Cheshire, Conn., on Monday had […]

His grandfather was a leading Russian theatrical director and the son of a princess. His grandmother was a pioneering modern dancer. His uncle retired three years ago as chief executive […]

Two career criminals who had recently roomed together at a halfway house were arraigned on Tuesday, a day after a morning of terror that left a prominent doctor badly beaten […]

Nestled on the Long Island Sound, the century-old house sits and waits. Tables are set with place mats. Mums brighten the reception desk. The moment a visitor appears, fresh lemonade […]

Standing inside the handsome sanctuary on Summer Street that has been home to Trinity Church since 1949, Fred Clark said that he was married here, baptized his children here and […]

NEW HAVEN Signs in front of downtown stores last week asked visitors to 'pardon our appearance.' Not because they were undergoing construction but rather because they looked as though someone […]

YONKERS It weighs 20 tons empty -- 45 tons when full -- smells a bit racy and has become known as the Yonkers Chomper. Lumbering down a street in southern […]

Averting a possible government shutdown, Democratic legislative leaders in Connecticut have shaken hands with the state's Republican governor, M. Jodi Rell, on a budget for the coming fiscal year that […]

From afar, the giant object that appears to have cartwheeled into Latham Park looks like a bright-red starburst. On closer view, it consists of six metal filing cabinets that have […]

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. asked the federal government yesterday to ''back off'' from any further raids on illegal immigrants until allegations that agents broke rules in conducting one such raid [...]

Three months after their principal canceled a school production they had prepared on the war in Iraq, a group of Wilton High School students staged a dramatic reading of the […]

Up and down a sandy road here, hard to find even with a map, residents were emptying their weekend homes as fast as they could on Friday to beat the […]

IN those final weeks before summer vacation, when temperatures can soar into the 90s, parents at 5 of Greenwich's 11 elementary schools without adequate air-conditioning could no longer watch their […]

Senator John McCain made his pitch to this gilded shoreline suburb back in April. Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts came on May 7, followed one night later by former […]

To many commuters in Connecticut, the state's overworked mass transit system would be vastly improved by an infusion of new rail cars providing more seats and new bus routes to [...]

The police are investigating a threatening message found on a Connecticut College chalkboard Wednesday that seemed to make reference to the recent deadly rampage at Virginia Tech. Discovered at 6:34 [...]

With his former client sitting a few feet away, Michael C. Skakel's former lawyer, Mickey Sherman, told a court on Thursday that he was not given information until after the [...]

Crawford Mills, a former classmate of Michael C. Skakel's, testified on Wednesday that he tried to give lawyers information he thinks might have prevented Mr. Skakel's 2002 conviction for the [...]

Five years after he was convicted of killing his 15-year-old neighbor, Martha Moxley, as a teenager in Greenwich in 1975, a teary Michael C. Skakel returned to court on Tuesday [...]

Students at a Connecticut high school whose principal canceled a play they were preparing on the Iraq war are now planning to perform the work in June in New York, [...]

More than half a century after the landmark desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, this overwhelmingly white and wealthy town is beginning to confront the yawning racial imbalance [...]

Student productions at Wilton High School range from splashy musicals like last year's ''West Side Story,'' performed in the state-of-the-art, $10 million auditorium, to weightier works like Arthur Miller's ''Crucible,'' [...]

On an island liberally sprinkled with the affluent and well-connected members of such clans as Bush, du Pont, Rockefeller and Cabot, the Watson family occupies a special place. The family, [...]

Tucked in the files at Bridgeport Superior Court, it reads like a macabre laundry list: an eight-inch kitchen knife with a ''small spot of blood'' on its edge, a blood-spattered [...]

Julie Amero, a substitute teacher at a middle school in Norwich, Conn., said she had simply wanted to e-mail her husband. The authorities contend that she was -- purposely or, [...]

Six Norman Rockwell paintings whose ownership has been hotly contested, including ''Saying Grace,'' right, one of his most popular covers for The Saturday Evening Post, may yet be sold. Curtis [...]

FRANCES WU said she was pushing 30 in 2000 when she fled New York for Tokyo. She did so partly to put distance between herself and a beau, who she [...]

Some call the ''failure to appear'' charge a prosecutor's best friend because it is relatively easy to prove and can swiftly bring a defendant to the bargaining table. Others see [...]

The former music director of Christ Church in Greenwich pleaded guilty yesterday in Federal District Court to possession of child pornography, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of 10 [...]