Canterbury News

On 2/3/12, at 5:44 p.m., Connecticut State Trooper Chris Toney was on patrol traveling on Route 14 in Canterbury near the Plainfield town line.

When asked about slavery and race in 19th century Connecticut, many people think first of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

A State Police Trooper and Plainfield Police Officer were dragged by a car on Route 14 in Canterbury Friday night, according to police.

The Hartford Housing Authority has created a scholarship fund in the name of Alan Green, the agency's executive director who resigned Friday for health reasons.

The 9th annual, three-day Mohegan Sun WineFest kicked off Friday night with a Bourbon Tasting presented by Beam Global Spirits & Wine.

Fran Kochman, left, her daughter Lucy Kochman, 6, both of Suffield, and Arlene and Gary Van Hettinga, both of Old Saybrook, get on board a 2009 Minor Offshore 31-foot yacht at the Connecticut Marine Trade Association Boat Show at the Connecticut Convention Center Saturday.

Here are some of the latest hot properties for sale, or recently sold, in Connecticut.

The Connecticut Art Education Association recently announced the winners of the 2012 Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art Awards Program.

AFC wide receiver Brandon Marshall of the Miami Dolphins celebrates with the trophy after being named MVP of the NFL Pro Bowl at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Eight people were arrested Saturday night after police responded to a hotel on Weston Street for a breach of peace complaint.

After about two years of wrangling, a group representing teachers, school administrators and school boards agreed Wednesday on a new way to evaluate teachers that places a strong emphasis on student achievement.

East Haven Mayor Joe Maturo in a 2007 photo. He's under fire for insensitive remarks followings arrests of officers in a federal civil rights probe of the townA A s police force.

A Western Connecticut State University history professor who previously has written about the Constitution - and about who "killed" it - now is taking a look at the man widely considered to be the Consitution's "father." In his fourth book, "James Madison and the Making of America," coming out next month, Kevin R. C. Gutzman explores the fourth ... (more)

A Newington firm has been chosen to complete the first phase of a long-awaited streetscape project to improve the town center.

Six years after UConn spent $1.2 million to renovate the university president's home, the school spent another $94,000 before new president Susan Herbst moved in with her family last year, school records indicate.

A Tolland boy has sued his pediatrician, charging she failed to diagnose his bacterial meningitis , resulting in his losing his eyesight.

Winter Caplanson, the market's executive director, said that while the exuberance inside the town hall's annex room was appropriate, she and the rest of the market's committee will have to evaluate the conditions of the permit, specifically the commission's right to evaluate the parking and traffic situation 60 days after opening day.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Monday petrol prices would be reduced to 97 naira a liter, a week after nationwide strikes and protests began against the government's decision to scrap fuel subsidies.