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Storm hits Fairfield County the hardest: Gov. to tour ravaged area

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Gov. Jodi Rell will be touring southwestern Connecticut to see damage caused by a strong rain and wind storm that hit over the weekend.
Fairfield County was the hardest hit area of the state. The storm knocked down trees and utility wires, causing thousands of power outages and prompting many towns to cancel school Monday...More

Danbury Hospital and New Milford Hospital move forward with merger

Danbury Hospital and New Milford Hospital are moving forward with plans for an affiliation. Incoming President and CEO of Danbury Hospital Dr John Murphy says both boards have approved the plan which would bring both hospitals under a single combined health system.....More

-Danbury student struck by car while crossing street

-Mass. club settles charges in boy's Uzi death

Hearing on bringing back tolls to Ct. Highways

There's a public hearing today at the state capital about a proposal to put tolls at 7 locations along Connecticut's border--including some on Interstate 84 in Danbury. Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce President Stephen Bull says he is against tolling because it will disproportionately hurt border towns....More

Danbury school health centers may lose some state funding

-Conn Appeals Court upholds plagiarism ruling

Judge to unseal Yale killing arrest warrant

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) A Connecticut judge is planning to unseal parts of a search warrant that could shed more light on the killing of a Yale University graduate student last September.... More

Milford teen stabbed and killed at house party

MILFORD, Conn. (AP) Milford police say the victim of a fatal stabbing at a weekend house party was a 19-year-old local man and they've arrested a 17-year-old girl in connection with the incident. Police say Ryan Simpson was killed at his home early Sunday and his 15-year-old brother suffered non-life threatening injuries...More

Former Biologists lawsuit against Pfizer in court

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Opening testimony is scheduled in the lawsuit of a former Pfizer biologist who claims she was illegally fired for claiming she was exposed to a genetically engineered virus....More

Public Defender: Man apologizes for on-line threat

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) A man who threatened a Connecticut public defender representing a defendant charged in the Cheshire home invasion has apologized for the Internet posting.....More

-Conn. foreclosures up 3 percent in February

-Conn. GOP wants to delay special bonuses

Judge to hear plan to pay $657M to WTC responders; Bloomberg calls it `good for everybody'

NEW YORK (AP) A settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers sickened by World Trade Center dust goes before a judge this afternoon. More...

-Cashier, 91, punched trying to fend off thief

-Bishop: Pope dismayed at clerical abuse scandal

Hearing for Pa. boy, 12, accused of killing woman

NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) A hearing is under way in Pennsylvania to determine whether a 12-year-old boy can be tried as an adult on charges he killed his father's pregnant fiancee. More...

-Guard to be disciplined for Newark airport breach

-VT forward will play big game after mom's death