Hours before the legislature's 2008 session ended, the state Senate unanimously passed a comprehensive mortgage-relief bill that would help thousands of subprime mortgage holders threatened with foreclosure.

Foxwoods has a not-so-subtle plan to capture the public's attention for the May 17 launch of its new MGM Grand casino.

The big primaries are done. The remaining contests don't carry enough delegates to tip the balance. But that hasn't coaxed any commitments out of Connecticut's last two undeclared Democratic superdelegates.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell expressed strong reservations Wednesday about a Democratic bill that would permit municipalities, nonprofits and small businesses to join the state employee health insurance pool.

Latest Twist Furthers Debate About Response To Boy’s Shock-Emitting Camera

The mother of a 14-year-old Clinton high school student is suing the police officer who arrested her son last month after the ninth-grader brought to school a doctored disposable camera that emitted electrical shocks to willing students.

— A convicted sex offender who served three years for molesting a 14-year-old girl but claims that he has raped 58 children was sentenced Wednesday to a decade in prison for possessing child pornography on a home computer.

A day after 30 cats were found crying, hungry and covered in feces in a parking lot, Animal Control Officer Cheryl Gagnon has been inundated with adoption offers and questions about donations.

Are people going hungry because of the search for alternative fuel? According to the experts who testified at a hearing of the Senate's homeland security and governmental affairs committee Wednesday, the answer is: Sort of.

Aspiring early childhood and elementary school teachers will have to prove they know how to teach reading on a test the State Board of Education has added to Connecticut's teacher certification requirements. The change, which was made Wednesday, comes amid worries about stagnating or declining student reading scores statewide and concerns that not all state teachers know the mechanics of teaching reading.

A legislative controversy - which ignited after Gov. M. Jodi Rell's appointment early this year of a Republican activist from Old Lyme as a $121,615-a-year family support magistrate - died quietly Wednesday when the House failed to take up a Senate-approved reform bill.

Madison Girl Plies Her Bow To Raise Money For Wounded Soldiers

For the past year, Meilia Ann Picquet of Madison has spent a portion of many Sundays playing her violin at the local Stop & Shop to raise money for a local group that sends guitars and keyboards to soldiers who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan and are now hospitalized or undergoing long-term rehabilitation.

Hopes for a strong spring home-buying season in Connecticut received a blow Tuesday with a report that sales in March plummeted and that prices slid for the fourth month in a row and by the most since the mid-1990s.

The state's neediest school districts are facing cuts in critical programs that help teach children to read because of a looming $20 million falloff in funding under the state's "do-nothing" budget.

The Senate voted early today to give final legislative approval to a Democratic bill permitting municipalities, nonprofits and small businesses to join the state employee health insurance pool.

In the state Senate, it seemed like a no-brainer last week that a driver in the year 2008 should not be able to bolt down the highway with an open bottle of whiskey in his hand. To the surprise of many, that's still legal in Connecticut.

Trooper Spoke To Him Before Killing

The 31-year-old man charged in the deadly March 30 New Britain home invasion was approached by a Massachusetts state trooper a day and a half before the killing, but the convertible Leslie Williams had stolen hadn't been reported missing yet, so he continued on his way, according to an arrest warrant made public Tuesday.

State police seized computers and documents last week from the state's largest driving school, the Watertown-based Academy of Driving, in a move that may relate to an ongoing Department of Motor Vehicles probe into alleged administrative and safety violations.

Two women charged with involvement in the yearlong disappearance of a 14-year-old girl found hidden in a locked storage closet last June pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges of second-degree kidnapping, second-degree conspiracy to commit kidnapping and risk of injury to a minor.

State Rep. Art Feltman, who has represented the city's 6th House District since 1997, announced Tuesday he will not seek re-election in November.

A Senate-approved bill that would let legislators and other state employees use taxpayer-funded state lawyers to defend them in ethics cases is floundering in the House - where a key committee chairman, who normally would bring it up, refuses to do so.