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His new office, when it is up and running, will be the most visible element among the set of law enforcement reforms social justice advocates pushed through the legislature over the last two years. And his may be measured by how thoroughly he displeases everyone with whom the new office comes into contact.“If he gets all sides hating him equally, he has probably done a great job,” said Frank Rudewicz, a consultant and retired Hartford Police Lieutenant. “He is in a no-win situation. There ...

Blair Raycraft Jr. age 65, of Two Harbors passed away

Hartford’s South Park Inn shelter may accelerate relocation plans now that the city has offered possible federal coronavirus funding designated to fight homelessness.

A much-honored poet and respected lawyer with a degree from Yale Law School, Reginald Dwayne Betts has been trying to redefine his life away from the one teenage act that reverberates through his thoughts and dreams. His third poetry collection, "Felon," is now in print.

Federal investigators came to believe during the past decade that the key to the world’s biggest art heist — the still-unsolved 1990 theft of $500 million in paintings and other works from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — might be found just outside Hartford. The feds thought the paintings might have been in or under the home of an old, convicted gangster, Robert “The Cook” Gentile, in Manchester where they dug up his yard and tore out walls looking for two Rembrandts and o...

Split over abortion divides Catholic Church and disability rights activists in right-to-die fight in Connecticut legislature. Groups will hold separate rallies Wednesday. Daniela Altimari, Hartford Courant © Patrick Raycraft / Hartford Courant/Hartford Courant/TNS Cathy Ludlum, from Manchester, is a leader with Second Thoughts, a disability rights group. Disability rights activists and the lobbying arm of the Catholic Church in Connecticut have long been allies in the fight a...

Prominent members of the large Puerto Rican disapora community in Connecticut say they are hopefully statehood will be achieved -- but only if the Puerto Rican people want it.

The father of the late Anthony Vega Cruz, the 18-year-old shot and killed by a Wethersfield police officer in 2019, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the officer and town over his son’s death.

The pandemic means the Lenten season will look a bit different than usual this year, but Ash Wednesday traditions in Connecticut will be maintained with a few changes. The practice of clergy directly applying ashes to parishioners’ foreheads is considered unsafe, so churches are trying other approaches.

A new, broader vision for traveling around the Hartford area of the future is expected to emerge by the end of next year.