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Chief of staff Matt Brokman will stay on as the Connecticut governor reviews agency leadership before his Jan. 6 swearing-in.
Willie White, 59, pleaded guilty to robbing a Sunglass Hut in West Hartford at gunpoint in 2024. Prosecutors said he was carrying a stolen pistol fitted with a device that makes it fire fully automatically when he was arrested.
Connecticut, Michigan and New Jersey said the medical transcription and billing companies will pay at least $300,000 and adopt new security measures after a 2023 breach that exposed records tied to more than 13.3 million people, including about 108,000 in Connecticut.
Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are among the states asking a federal appeals court to deny the Trump administration's request to pause a ruling against conditions on Homeland Security grant money.
The Connecticut congresswoman said Democrats must use their new House majority to subpoena officials and roll back Medicaid and SNAP cuts.
Connecticut's senior senator pointed to immigration arrests, SNAP cuts and canceled cancer research grants at a post-election briefing with Gov. Ned Lamont.
Tonya Barham, 63, admitted lying to the IRS about her small business, which prosecutors said had no employees but collected $799,052 in pandemic-era employer tax refunds.
Gov. Ned Lamont said eligible people will be covered 60 days before they leave correctional facilities, and the state will keep federal money for residential addiction treatment.
The 2027-28 proposal includes $500,000 for higher legal costs and $2.3 million more for special education. The town's finance board had set a guideline of 3.71%.
A suspicious person near the town's early voting site sent three schools into secure mode last month, and officers stood outside the high school with guns drawn. More than 30 people, mostly students, wrote in asking for a change.
The Board of Education is weighing four ways to rebalance elementary enrollment, three of which would repurpose the school. A decision is expected next summer.
Samples collected by Connecticut consumer protection inspectors turned up elevated lead levels, prompting a New York distributor to pull the spice from shelves in 14 states, including Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Detectives say security video from near the Racebrook Road bridge led them to a possible suspect vehicle. Todd Atkins, 43, died after the Oct. 31 crash.
Gov. Ned Lamont and Insurance Commissioner Joshua Hershman said state aid that offsets the loss of enhanced federal premium tax credits will continue in 2027, alongside a new subsidy for early childhood educators.
The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection urged hikers, bikers and others using the woods to wear fluorescent orange and stay alert as hunting seasons open.
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee called the project's completion a highlight of his administration and credited his office with protecting it from interference by the Trump administration.
Speakers during public comment questioned outside classroom materials, a genocide studies assignment and a textbook they said describes Israel's founding as colonization.
The mayor called the $50 million plan urgent, saying only six of the city's 20 garbage trucks are working, while the school district seeks state fiscal intervention.
Federal prosecutors said Conrod Davy, 41, sold investigators about two kilograms of fentanyl and, after his arrest, claimed to be a U.S. citizen under a false name.
Winifer Acosta Jimenez, 32, was arrested in 2023 after delivering two kilograms of fentanyl to a meeting spot in Milford, prosecutors said. She removed her GPS monitor while out on bond and was a fugitive for more than a year.
Christopher Moorer was treated at the scene and taken to Norwalk Hospital, where he died. Police have not said what caused the crash.
The Democrat becomes the first Connecticut governor since John G. Rowland to win three consecutive elections.
Federal prosecutors say the men used a Homestead Avenue location in Hartford to store, process and package drugs, and that searches turned up a kilogram of fentanyl and three guns.
Connecticut's public health, agriculture and environmental agencies used the proclamation to describe joint work on bird flu, drug-resistant infections, heat and smog, and food safety.