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A 12-year-old was shot Wednesday night after throwing a snowball at a car in Hartford, Connecticut, police said. The child and an 11-year-old were throwing snowballs when one snowball hit a car. The car “looped the block” to chase the kids and “fired rounds at the children,” Hartford police Lt. Aaron Boisvert said at a […]
Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners have reached a new US$7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging that the pain medication OxyContin caused a widespread opioid addiction crisis in the US, several state attorneys general said Thursday. The settlement was announced nearly seven months after the US Supreme Court upended the company’s […]
EAST HADDAM, CT — For the second time in two months, an earthquake has been reported in Moodus, a village in East Haddam, according to the United States Geological Survey. While earthquakes have been known to occur in different parts of Connecticut, the state is best known for its seismic activity near Moodus, according to […]
In doing so, Wiggins landed on a subtle color scheme that would dialogue with the house’s features, particularly the natural blue-green hue of the grand stone fireplace that dominates the living room. “I wanted a simple, tight palette,” she says. “It needed to be muted, without a huge amount of contrast or saturation.” She chose […]
CORNWALL, CT — Let’s start off 2025 with a classic look at an iconic part of northwest Connecticut — and the snow sports industry. It’s a look at the classic and popular main lodge at Mohawk Mountain, as seen from a spot adjacent to the Deer Run Triple Chair. Mohawk is famous for its old-school […]
The Transportation Department announced on Friday a $2 million penalty against JetBlue Airways for operating several flights on the East Coast that chronically arrived late in 2022 and 2023. Half of the money collected will go to the impacted passengers. The penalty is the first time that the D.O.T. has fined an airline for chronic […]
Although the Connecticut River in the US and Cael Uisce on the River Erne near Belleek in Co Fermanagh are transatlantically separated, the descriptive names of both rivers are etymologically connected. The Connecticut River derives from a Native American word, quinatucquet, which means “beside the long tidal river,” and, similarly, Cael Uisce on the River […]