A tentative settlement announced Wednesday over the role Purdue Pharma played in the nation’s opioid addiction crisis falls short of the far-reaching national settlement the OxyContin maker had been seeking for months, with litigation sure to continue against the company and the family that owns it. The agreement with about half the states and attorneys representing roughly 2,000 local governments...

Purdue University in Indiana wants the public to know that it has no connection to a Connecticut-based company blamed for helping drive the nation’s opioid crisis.

A 76-year-old Connecticut man is walking from Yankee Stadium to Fenway Park in an effort to promote peace and not just between the two fan bases. Al Forte, of Stamford, Connecticut, tells the Providence Journal, he’s asking people along the way to pray for peace on earth, handing out cards showing six soldiers praying.

Two people were injured in an explosion at a water treatment facility in Stamford on Aug. 1.

Some drivers for ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft turned off their apps Wednesday to protest what they say are declining wages at a time when both companies are raking in billions of dollars from investors.

Police say 10 students at a Stamford high school face charges after a food fight that turned into a riot and ended with injuries to a teacher and a school resource officer.

A Rhode Island man has been shot and killed outside a halfway house in Pawtucket. The Providence Journal reports 37-year-old Napoleon Andrade was killed at around 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Police didn’t identify the victim but the newspaper says Jay Chattelle, Pawtucket’s poet laureate, was among those who identified him. Chattelle said the two had grown up together and that Andrade...

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is exploring filing for bankruptcy as one of its options to address potentially significant liabilities from thousands of lawsuits alleging the drug maker contributed to the deadly opioid crisis sweeping the U.S., NBC News confirmed through a source familiar with the matter. The deliberations show how Purdue and its wealthy owners, the Sackler family, are under...

The former chairman of the Democratic City Committee in Stamford faces absentee ballot fraud and forgery charges in connection with ballots cast in the city’s 2015 election.

Eli Lilly is spending about $8 billion in cash to buy Loxo Oncology, as the drugmaker bulks up on cancer treatments that target certain gene abnormalities. Loxo Oncology could launch a drug next year and targets an abnormality that occurs in several tumor types, including some lung and thyroid cancers, Lilly said in a prepared statement announcing the deal Monday.

An updated complaint in Massachusetts’ lawsuit against Purdue Pharma claims members of the family that owns the OxyContin maker are personally responsible for fueling abuse of the deadly painkiller.

An updated complaint in Massachusetts’ lawsuit against Purdue Pharma claims members of the family that owns the OxyContin maker are personally responsible for fueling abuse of the deadly painkiller.

Indeed, the human resources company that runs the job search website, is expanding in Connecticut, according to the governor’s office.

An investigation into the discovery of a dead baby boy at a Connecticut garbage and recycling processing facility has been complicated by inconclusive autopsy results.

The investigation into the discovery of a dead baby boy now spans three states.

A newborn baby’s dead body was found at a recycling center in Stamford, Conn., a facility which receives materials from, among other places, Andover, Mass.

Police in Andover, Massachusetts, are on alert after the body of a baby boy was found at a recycling center in Stamford, Connecticut. The body was discovered Tuesday morning at City Carting and Recycling. Andover is one of five communities from which companies dropped off materials that day. The others include Stamford and Greenwich in Connecticut, as well as Somers...

The body of a baby boy was found at City Carting and Recycling, a trash and recycling facility in Stamford, Tuesday morning and police are investigating.

Andover, Massachusetts, is one of five communities from which materials were sent to a Stamford, Connecticut, recycling plant where the body of a baby was found Tuesday.

Authorities say the death of a Connecticut toddler who was crushed by an 80-pound television was an accident.