State and federal authorities were investigating a suspicious substance discovered Monday afternoon in the mail sent to a fourth floor office at the Capitol — the second time in a week this has happened. An emergency environmental responder leaves a Capitol office after investigating a suspicious substance found in mail Malloy spokesman Andrew Doba described […]

Washington — Oklahoma is the latest state to woo a Connecticut gun maker, telling it to bring over its manufacturing plant and jobs. Mark Malkowski, president of New Britain-based Stag Arms, said he’s been contacted by Oklahoma’s Department of Commerce, urging him to move to the Sooner State. Mark Malkowski, president of a New Britain […]

When it came time for the state Department of Education to craft and implement controversial education reforms, the agency routinely turned to an organization not bound by public disclosure requirements to do its work — an approach state auditors challenged last week. “We continue to be concerned,” auditors John Geragosian and Robert Ward wrote in […]

New Britain — Timothy Sacerdote’s morning medication run was nearly done, without a hitch so far. He’d visited four clients, opened the combination locks on the boxes of medication in their homes and handed them pills while chatting about how they were doing, whether they’d be coming to group, and, in the case of one […]

Having vowed not to raise taxes, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy still used every trick in the book to find an extra half-a-billion dollars to spend next year. But it isn’t just Republican legislators who are less than enamored of the governor’s gimmicks. Malloy’s fellow Democrats are proposing their own tax hikes, and they’re not shy […]

By: Georgia Lobb I snapped this picture while I was fueling up in Ridgefield, CT this morning. I used my credit card to put Plus into my old car- so I paid nearly $4.50 per gallon. Let’s all sit back and watch the prices rise to the $5.00 mark…. coming soon to a gas station […]

Washington — A growing number of states, most of them in the South, are trying to lure gun manufacturers in Connecticut and other places with tough gun laws. The offers appear to be tendered by hopes of economic development and to appeal to gun rights voters. Republicans in Mississippi, South Carolina, Arizona and Texas have […]

Homelessness is preventing the state’s child welfare agency from reuniting 500 children with their families. “Essentially, they are still not with their families for any reason other than poverty,” Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz told the legislature’s budget-writing committee Friday. Of those children who “could go home if there was a home […]