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The court did grant Jones a $150 million reprieve. It determined the plaintiffs failed to assert a viable claim under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act. -
Former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner, the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England, has died, the Connecticut NAACP said on Friday. He was 91. -
A suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman and her 4-month-old son inside a car in Hartford, Connecticut, was arrested Saturday in Puerto Rico, officials said. -
Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being infiltrated by “ radicals, zealots and Marxists.” -
Conservative strategist Steve Bannon’s trial on state charges of conspiring to dupe donors to a border wall charity will be postponed from next month to late February. -
Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, prompting inquiries by the FBI and other agencies. -
Disruptions to Amtrak service on the Northeast corridor continued Wednesday as downed wires halted trains between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware, and service between New York and New Haven, Connecticut, remained suspended because of a fire near a train route in New York City. -
Caroline Ellison, a former top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried ’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire, began her two-year prison sentence Thursday for her role in a fraud that cost investors, lenders and customers billions of dollars. -
A gunman opened fire in the dining hall of the University of Bridgeport, injuring one person and prompting a campus lockdown as police searched for the suspect. -
Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon has been released from prison after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Bannon left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday morning.
