The Latest Breaking News from Connecticut

Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes will succeed the ousted Rep. Adam B. Schiff of California as ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

HARTFORD, Conn. — When Elizabeth Carlson’s parents agreed to a plea agreement to send their daughter’s killer to prison for 42 years, they thought it was iron-clad.

It's been more than 375 years since Alse Young became the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies for witchcraft

"I have never felt threatened by a single person in this town until meeting those officers and the social worker."

Emails show officials in the state of Connecticut opted not to ban the Chinese-owned app after consulting with the FBI.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says he wants to add more firearms to the state's assault weapons ban and raise the age for buying long guns to 21 from 18

The Waterbury, Connecticut, police department has fired officer James Hinkle for screaming at and berating a woman who drove through an intersection where he was directing traffic. Hinkle accused the woman of almost running him over, but in the video he appeared to be a few feet from her and…

It’s not every day that the federal government and states as varied as Tennessee and New York find themselves on the same side of a legal dispute, but these were joined by New Jersey, Virginia, Colorado, California, Rhode Island and Connecticut yesterday in filing suit against Google parent company Alphabet…

The black bear population in Connecticut has gotten so large and aggressive, particularly in Litchfield and northwest Hartford counties, that one state legislator has proposed a bear-hunting lottery system.

One piece of mail on the block features faded red fountain pen looping across an envelope mailed in 1833 from Chicago to Connecticut. Another is an envelope from the 1860s with the words “Death to Traitors” stamped in one corner — which showed support for the North during the Civil…

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has announced a series of proposed gun laws in a state already considered one of the strictest for firearms ownership