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Conceived nearly a decade ago to reduce traffic on I-84, the proposed New Britain-to-Hartford busway remains on the drawing board.

Long-standing plans to renovate city hall, refurbish a firehouse, rebuild drainage systems and replace older garbage trucks are probably all off the table next year, city officials said Tuesday.

Now that the national authority on U.S. recessions has declared what everyone already knew — yes, we're in one — the question in this state is: How does Connecticut stack up against the nation?

The Glastonbury grandmother wanted to talk about her town, where "everything seems to be just right."

Since his gift shop opened Nov. 1 on Main Street, Michael Hoinsky said business has been better than he expected.

Once the choice for truckers, construction workers and lovers with a secret, the small, low- budget motels along the highway have, like many businesses, fallen victim to a sluggish economy. Motel owners say their vacancy rates are at all-time highs.

Gas prices may be falling, but with the recession gobbling up investments and jobs, a lot of penny-pinching consumers say they plan to celebrate at home this Thanksgiving.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday that he sees "serious red flags" in the finances of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, a Virginia nonprofit that has collected millions from donors around the country, but has paid only pennies on the dollar to police officers facing charges.

It won't be easy for every same-sex couple to marry in a Connecticut church. Just because the law says homosexual couples can marry, it doesn't mean clergy have to perform the ceremonies, or even have the authority to do so.

Bristol smokers, take note: Soon, public streets might be off-limits, too.

It was all over, done, in the past, part of state history. But it gnawed at him, and he couldn't sleep well. So Wednesday, former Senate Republican leader Louis DeLuca strode once again into the spotlight and in that feisty way of his, perfected during 17 years at the state Capitol, started hurling charges.

A college history professor who assigned a 2006 term paper now at the heart of a civil court case explained Wednesday how he decided to accuse one student of cheating when faced with two strikingly similar papers.

A student was stabbed in the neck Wednesday as he took a break from his General Educational Development class outside the Urban League of Greater Hartford.

Since Judy Goff was young, she knew she wanted to own a store. Seven years ago, she and her husband, Peter, bought a candy shop and a chance to fulfill Judy's dream. But the Goffs are closing the shop at the end of the year because of the declining economy.

In a confession to state police detectives given the day state and federal authorities raided his home as part of a child pornography investigation, a Stafford man admitted that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl placed in his home by a foster care agency, according to the warrant for his arrest.

A Fairfield County developer has been indicted on bribery and a half-dozen other offenses for providing cash and other gifts — including a home addition — to eight-term Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti, people familiar with the indictment and the investigation that preceded it said Monday.

Concerned about the economy and future state revenue, the board of education voted 8-0 Monday night to freeze spending at the current level except in emergencies.

Coming soon: adult entertainment right in the old Wagner Ford dealership on busy Hopmeadow Street.

Journal Register Co., owner of five daily newspapers in Connecticut, plans to close The Bristol Press and The Herald of New Britain by January unless buyers emerge.

Following layoffs and faced with an $8 million deficit that threatens to grow, Hartford council Majority Leader rJo Winch is in Orlando, Fla., attending a conference at the city's expense this week — and some of her council colleagues are calling her on it.