Linda McMahon and Chris Murphy put a final gloss on Connecticut’s rawest, most expensive campaign Monday, making a last tour of the state before voters go to polls Tuesday to choose a new U.S. senator for the second time since 2010. Murphy, 39, the three-term Democratic congressman whose campaign once seemed in free fall, appeared […]

With 100,000 new voters registered in the past six weeks and power restored to all polling places, Connecticut’s chief elections official said she hopes other aftereffects of Hurricane Sandy won’t keep voters from casting ballots Tuesday. “The bottom line is Connecticut is ready to vote tomorrow,” Secretary of the State Denise W. Merrill said Monday […]

Hartford — In the year of the Super PAC, congressional and presidential elections across the country are smashing records in campaign spending, and Connecticut’s races are no exception. As of a week ago, $74 million had been spent by candidates and outside parties in Connecticut on races for Congress, close to the record set in […]

Farmington — For Republican Andrew Roraback, the last lap in his year-long bid for Congress includes a lot of stops for breakfasts, at least four of them Sunday. Roraback’s Sunday began at breakfasts held by Republican town committees in Kent and Thomaston, followed by more breakfasts hosted by the Farmington Fire Department and Wolcott Lion’s […]

U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy stood in a chilly, wind-blown parking lot Saturday, listening to Congressman John B. Larson and the presidents of two national public-employee unions exhort dozens of volunteers about to go door-to-door in Hartford on behalf of him and other Democrats. The scene would be repeated throughout the weekend. Murphy’s fate on […]

Norwalk — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Saturday he thinks the Obama administration will declare most of Connecticut, with the exception of Hartford County, a major disaster area, opening the door to a variety of aid. The governor was in Norwalk and Bridgeport Saturday with Lieut. Gov. Nancy Wyman, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rep. Jim Himes, […]

The U.S. Senate campaign resumed Friday with a full day of public events by Democrat Chris Murphy and a stealthier schedule by Republican Linda McMahon, whose campaign resumed its pre-storm practice of declining to share more than a few details of McMahon’s whereabouts. Both campaigns aired new ads, including an appeal by President Obama for […]

BRIDGEPORT — In their last debate before next Tuesday’s elections, 4th District Democratic Congressman Jim Himes and his Republican challenger, Steve Obsitnik, repeated the same messages they have throughout the campaign, and — as in past debates — struggled to define their differences. “I agree with Mr. Obsitnik on this point,” was a phrase uttered […]

Tens of thousands of Connecticut commuters breathed collective sighs of relief late Wednesday when Gov. Dannel Malloy announced they could take the train all the way from New Haven to New York and back again last night. For those who had to get to work earlier in the week, though, the announcement marked the close […]

Correction at bottom of story Back in the 1980s, when no one knew much about AIDS, Freddy played percussion in Latino bands in clubs in New York and Puerto Rico. In the early morning, after the gig, they would go to a “shooting gallery,” where they would romance heroin and cocaine. At the time, Freddy […]