An inmate serving a 79-year sentence for a fatal car crash that killed five people died Tuesday night after he was beaten by a fellow prisoner who guards said was avenging the motor vehicle deaths.

The state Department of Transportation is balking at issuing the United Auto Workers union a permit allowing workers to gather this weekend along Route 2 in front of Foxwoods to protest the grand opening of the new MGM Grand.

A popular New England boxer who once had a chance to train for the Olympics was killed in 2005 outside a Hartford nightclub during a dispute over a drug deal, an eyewitness for the prosecution told a Superior Court jury in Hartford this week.

Voters adopted the $44.4 million town and board of education budget at a town meeting Tuesday night by a vote of 283-37, officials said.

The turnout may have been light at the polls Tuesday, but the message was clear as voters rejected the proposed 2008-09 town budget by a nearly 2-to-1 ratio.

— The board of education Tuesday approved $500,000 worth of budget cuts recommended by Superintendent David Title.

— Residents who own dogs are asking the town council to support the concept of creating a fenced-in area where their pets could play without being leashed.

It was 7:20 in the morning and Scott Porter sat on a stool in the Conard High School band room, talking about one of his saxophone players from the Class of 1993.

The town council has adopted an $82.9 million budget for the 2008-09 fiscal year.

One day into a full weekend of commencement ceremonies at the University of Connecticut, Michael J. Darre had already been on the main campus in Storrs for two hours before the business school faculty members began their procession into Gampel Pavilion for the first of seven separate exercises scheduled Sunday.

Construction crews from Goodwin College have removed many of the old oil tanks, torn down the brush and mounds of dirt and cleaned out contaminated soil to make way for a new branch of the college.

Nestled in the woods, a world away from the hubbub of nearby Route 44, Avon Old Farms School is an emblem of New England tradition housed in a collection of sandstone and slate-shingled buildings.

Many of Lorenzo Dunlap's neighbors at the St. Mary's Elderly Housing facility on Main Street are not happy to see him back walking their halls.

Boy's Injuries Lead To Assault Charge Against Father

A 3-year-old boy's broken collarbone and a handprint on his buttocks led to criminal charges against the boy's father, who appeared Monday in Superior Court.

Heather Gaunt supports the green movement. But she found that shopping in an environmentally conscious manner can be difficult.

A 23-year-old convicted felon accused of firing one shot at a Hartford police officer outside a home on Madison Street early Sunday morning confessed immediately after he was caught, police reports show.

The Hartford city council's regular meeting, a usually placid event, turned ugly Monday evening as one of its members was nearly ejected by his colleagues for speaking out of order.

Several prominent Hartford business owners spoke out Monday against Mayor Eddie A. Perez's proposed $552 million budget for next year, saying their taxes were out of control and could force them to lay off workers and consider moving.

The Bridge Family Center has severed its connection with the annual Mayor's Charity Ball and has scheduled its own fundraising event for next year, leaving another local nonprofit that serves troubled youths, Hopeworks, in financial peril.

As expected, the town council Monday adopted its 2008-09 budget and set the new tax rate.