Bethlehem News

A man whose body was pulled from the Mill River late Saturday morning has been identified as 27-year-old William Young, who was last seen Monday at his home on Market Street, police said.

Halfway through the Courant reporter Chris Keating's story on the governor's schedule last Sunday, I had to stop and take a nap.

Macaulay Culkin appears to be wasting away to nothing. In a new set of photographs, the one-time "Home Alone" child star looks to have lost a load of weight, leaving him gaunt and hollow-eyed. While Culkin, 31, is a lanky guy anyway, the photos -- taken on the street in New York and posted by U.K. newspaper The Sun -- reveal a scarily thin face ... (more)

Let's all cheer the governor's tour de force speech Wednesday that finally placed - however fleetingly - public education at the front of Connecticut's agenda for the future.

State Rep. Bruce "Zeke" Zalaski, who was charged in December with drunken driving, has been placed in an alcohol education program, court officials said.

Poland was one of five new board appointees who took their oath of office at a special meeting Tuesday night, a group that included Mayor Pedro Segarra .

A psychiatric expert called to testify Tuesday in Superior Court by the Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford disputed an earlier diagnosis that an adolescent victim of sexual abuse by a priest would likely suffer from mental health problems for the rest of his life.

Steven McDermott, 42, was last heard from on Jan. 20, state police said in a Silver Alert bulletin Tuesday.

Achieve Hartford! has named Paul Diego Holzer as its executive director, the second leader in the school reform advocacy group's young history.

Open to residents seeking a degree in public administration or public service, the scholarship seeks to provide financial assistance to those who exhibit a track record of community service and wish to make it a career.

A former Connecticut man who pleaded guilty last summer to sexually abusing girls in the state and in Nicaragua will be sentenced this morning in U.S. District Court.

A man with a blood-alcohol level of more than four times the legal limit was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated Sunday night after driving a commercial truck drunk on the Thruway, State Police said.

Nina Fiorillo was issued a summons for false reporting Thursday after she told police her story "may not have quite happened how she reported due to her misperception of events," according to a 43-page police report obtained from the Boulder Police Department.

Authorities are looking into the circumstances surrounding an alleged sexual assault that occurred between students at Platt Technical High School earlier this month, a spokesman with the state Department of Education said Saturday.

According to data from the U.S. Census and the Connecticut Commission on Aging, there are 930 centenarians in Connecticut - 85 percent are women - and the number has been rising steadily.

A state marshal was pulled over Tuesday after running a red light and was arrested after police found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in his trunk, police said.

A Drug Arrest at High School A 16-year-old juvenile was caught on Nonnewaug High School grounds in possession of marijuana and in possession of drug paraphernalia, according to a 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan.

Since surviving the grounding and sinking of the Costa Concordia on Jan. 13, Melissa Goduti has had trouble sleeping and has not returned to work.

Firefighters said one of the family members smelled smoke around 5:30 a.m. and awoke the others before the fire had time to spread.

A flight headed to Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. returned to Bradley International Airport Saturday for an emergency landing.