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Paul Goulet hopes Connecticut will help him get from under nearly $8,000 he's borrowed for college after losing his job in a paper manufacturing plant.

By the end of the month, Connecticut's 18 Shaw's supermarkets will close, and even though all but two eventually will reopen under the banners of Stop & Shop, ShopRite or PriceRite, the renovations could take weeks or even months.

Heavy rains and high winds battered southeastern Connecticut throughout the day and night Saturday, toppling trees and bringing rivers and streams near flood-level in low-lying spots.

Although proponents acknowledge that highway tolls have little chance of advancing from concept to reality this year, the state's Transportation Committee spent the better part of four hours mulling the merits and drawbacks of their implementation on Friday.

Beefing up fines for violating the law that bans using hand-held cell phones while driving will help deter a growing problem with on-the-go phoning, texting and other digital dalliances, West Hartford Police Chief James Strillacci told lawmakers Friday.

Any hopes dealers and consumers in Connecticut had of legalized Sunday alcohol sales went belly up on Thursday.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he's investigating Toyota's response to vehicle accelerator problems, following three Camry crashes in the state this week.

A Connecticut judge has ruled that state prison officials may continue to force-feed a British inmate on a hunger strike.

The announcement, made at the Legislative Office Building, came just two hours after the Obama administration said it had rejected the state's application for $192 million in the competition for federal school-reform stimulus money.

A sportsman's club has pleaded no contest in the tragic death of an 8-year-old boy from Connecticut who shot himself by mistake in 2008 when he could not handle the recoil of an Uzi machine gun in Massachusetts.

Stores will not be able to sell alcohol on Sundays. A bill that would allow them to do so died in the program review and investigations committee Thursday.

A Massachusetts sporting club has settled charges in the accidental death of an 8-year-old Connecticut boy who shot himself with an Uzi during a 2008 gun fair at the club.

A Connecticut woman says the gas pedal on her 2007 Toyota Camry got stuck as she was driving it to the dealer.

The state motor vehicles commissioner Wednesday suggested that legislators expand the laws guiding school bus inspections to allow the department to levy civil penalties against companies that chronically fail to fix buses.

March 10, 2010 - Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT KALMAN, 39, of Guilford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to sell cocaine.

People Submitted by Taylor Haskell on 2010-03-10.   It's time to show your shorts, Connecticut! Tunxis Community College's First Annual Short Film Festival is coming May 14th, 2010.

Warm days and cold nights are sweet stuff to the state's maple producers. These are ideal conditions for pushing maple trees' sugary sap up the trunk toward the leaves, rendering it available to those who are in the business of collecting it.

A heavily traveled section of I-84 in West Hartford, sections of Route 9 near Deep River and a 6-mile stretch of I-291 in South Windsor are among the 44 road resurfacing projects that state officials will ask the bond commission to approve this month.

A co-chairman of the General Assembly's education committee said Monday that he will push for legislation to identify and keep unsafe school buses off Connecticut's roads.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell says the state will seek new proposals for a planned juvenile detention facility for girls after legislators from Bridgeport and Hamden opposed plans to site the center in their communities.