An investigation has revealed multiple credible allegations of sexual and physical abuse by former faculty and staff spanning decades at a school for deaf children in Connecticut, school officials said Friday. The American School for the Deaf in West Hartford released the findings of the investigation one year after it says it learned of allegations from alumni of “inappropriate physical conduct”...

The West Hartford school board is officially throwing its support behind later school start times. The Board of Education voted five to one to back a resolution that calls for state lawmakers to require middle and high schools statewide to start at 8:30 a.m. or later. That caused a bit of a celebration for those who have been working for…

Back in 2016, a political gadfly named Mark Stewart Greenstein jumped into the Connecticut River to attract attention to his entry in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, and now he’s the first candidate to sign up for the 2020 contest.

A 15-year-old girl who was reported missing from West Hartford on Friday night and was in need of immediate medical treatment has been found safe.

A 12-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of his sister after he allegedly stabbed her and their mother at their West Hartford home Monday, according to West Hartford police.

A girl has died, her mother is in the hospital, and police said the girl’s brother is accused of stabbing both of them in West Hartford Monday.

A West Hartford police officer on the lookout for burglars arrested a suspect when the man walked up to an unmarked police cruiser and tried to get in, according to police.

Town officials in West Hartford agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit that alleged a sexual assault in a middle school locker room in 2013 and claimed a pattern of negligence within the district.

James Bulger has been moved out of Massachusetts to a federal lock-up in Brooklyn, NY, according to the website of the Federal Bureau of Prisons

James Bulger has been moved out of Massachusetts to a federal lock-up in Brooklyn, NY, according to the website of the Federal Bureau of Prisons