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August 18, 2010
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Douglas Perlitz, 40, who founded a school for street children in Haiti acknowledged Wednesday that…
August 6, 2010
OPINION - Omar Thornton did what black men do with dismaying regularity -- resort to violence in order to exact…
August 5, 2010
ENFIELD, Conn. (AP) - As Omar Thornton prepared to head off to work at a beer distributorship Tuesday morning, his…
August 4, 2010
MANCHESTER, Connecticut (AP) - Omar Thornton's girlfriend says that he had complained of racial harassment and had shared evidence of…
August 4, 2010
MANCHESTER, Connecticut (AP) - In the end, Thornton killed eight people, injured two, then turned the gun on himself in…
August 3, 2010
MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) - Omar Thornton pulled out a handgun after a meeting in which he was shown video evidence…
July 15, 2010
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut's black and Hispanic students continue to narrow the academic achievement gap with double-digit percentage improvements…
June 24, 2010
MILFORD, Conn. (AP) - Police say a Connecticut television traffic reporter told authorities she was working on a freelance news…
May 21, 2010
VIDEO - When a former city employee apparently ran out of time to speak at a Bridgeport, Connecticut City Council…
May 4, 2010
A 19-year-old Connecticut college student last week sold her Nissan Pathfinder over the Internet -- only to learn that it…
May 4, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - The suspect was taken into custody late Monday by FBI agents and the NYPD at Kennedy…
March 23, 2010
From The Hartford Courant - Five members of a white supremacist group known as the Connecticut White Wolves, and an…
December 17, 2009
Dash cam video from a state trooper's car in Connecticut caught a dramatic shootout between the officer and a suspected…
December 14, 2009
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The NAACP's Connecticut branch wants a federal review of the case in which an all-white jury…
December 11, 2009
10 firefighters, including four minorities, who took the 2003 tests but were not plaintiffs in the court case were promoted…
November 26, 2009
VIDEO - A multi-million dollar building project sounded a lot more practical for New Hope Baptist Church back in April…
November 19, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) A group of black Connecticut firefighters hopes to block promotions for white firefighters who won a…
November 9, 2009
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Commissioner Susan Hamilton said she is concerned there is "a collective effort to interfere" with some…
October 22, 2009
Cheryl called 9-1-1 and 6-year veteran dispatcher Melissa Duncan helped the family deliver the baby.
September 23, 2009
VIDEO - An expert is helping to return one of Connecticut's best-known former slave's family gravesite to its proper place.