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Three days after the feds arrested Josemaria Islas and began the process of sending him back to Mexico, the New Havener secured "a minor triumph." Islas , an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, has become a cause celebre for immigrant advocates as he fights deportation stemming from what he calls a wrongful arrest based on a mistaken identity.

Hartford A bill that would allow Connecticut residents regardless of their immigration status to obtain a driver's license passed the House 74 to 55 Thursday morning after an overnight debate.

A 17-year-old New Haven resident was arrested Tuesday in connection with two home burglaries in town, police said.

Major Ruth became a civic leader because he made a promise to his neighbor, Brian Wingate.

Not the best day to be on the Connecticut Turnpike I mean the John Davis Lodge Turnpike There's big time traffic problems in New Haven, both directions.

Connecticut voters may not be ready , but that didn't stop the House from pushing forward with a vote on a bill that would give undocumented immigrants the ability to obtain a driver's license.

Get Business Mobile Text AlertsIn the mind of most any longtime Connecticut resident, Stamford is not one of the Big Three.

When I was in middle school, my home town was hit by a devastating tornado. We were fortunate.

In pre-dawn raids, state and local cops hit four different houses, made five arrests, and grabbed 2,375 bags of heroin.

Christopher Donovan was hurt politically by the scandal surrounding him, and he lost in the Democratic primary in August 2012 to Democrat Elizabeth Esty In his most detailed comments since the scandal broke last year, former House Speaker Christopher Donovan said Tuesday that he never fell for a campaign finance scheme by an FBI informant and that ... (more)

Detectives from the State Police Statewide Narcotics Task Force, assisted by New Haven PD Narcotics Unit, New Haven Shooting Task Force, and New Haven PD patrol, executed pre-dawn narcotics raids at four separate New Haven residences.

From the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT , Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine , and Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine , Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT ; Robert ... (more)

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Regular train service returned to Connecticut on Wednesday, five days after a derailment injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks.

Erika Morrison's sons Gabe, Seth, and Jude will reluctantly give up some nifty forts they have built over the years at secret locations in the narrow strip of woods between Q Avenue and the Q River.

After 20 years running City Hall, John DeStefano plans to move into an office a mile west on Whalley Avenue - to help run a community development bank he brought into existence.

After an 83-year-old architecture professor was attacked at the Lilac Street building site of a Yale-designed house, the university plans to pull out the newly installed foundation - and has decided it's just too dangerous to build a home in Newhallville.

It cannot be a burger that is ordinary. It cannot be a burger that is boring. It cannot be a burger that came frozen, and it certainly cannot be a burger that, after 14 years in a jacket pocket, still looks as edible as the day it was purchased.

Police tell News 8 there have been a string of car break-ins across Hamden. Now authorities believe they might have their guy.

Brooklyn singer-songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling just released his debut album Songs of Praise and Scorn last year, but with the wealth of critical acclaim that followed Stelling has accumulated a fan base comparable to musicians with much longer recording careers.

Robert Braddock Jr. walks outside federal court in New Haven, Conn., Monday May 13, 2013.