Best college hoops team in each state entering 2025-26: Any surprises?

There are a mere few days left of waiting before we can finally, again, hit the road. The road of uncertainty but a path paved with promises to untold, outstanding surprises that await. The road that spans from California to Connecticut, from...

Conn. Gov. To Nominate Acting Child Advocate For Role

By Christine DeRosa ( October 30, 2025, 2:49 PM EDT) -- Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has announced plans to nominate Christina D. Ghio, the state's acting child advocate, to take on the role on a permanent basis.... Law360 is on it, so you are,...

Former Connecticut budget official convicted of taking bribes from school construction contractors

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Meet the Designer Behind ‘Law & Order,’ ‘Mystic Pizza’ and More—and the Stories Behind the Icons She's Dressed (EXCLUSIVE)

Over the course of a 50-year career that spans movies, TV shows and plays, costume designer Jennifer von Mayrhauser has outfitted everyone from Meryl Streep to Julia Roberts; Timothée Chalamet to Daniel Day-Lewis; Winona Ryder to Keanu Reeves (to...

Oct. 22 - Angola WIC office is 'business as usual' during federal shutdown

ANGOLA — The food aid program that helps millions of mothers and young children is expected to run out of money, but the Steuben County Women, Infants and Children is expected to be fully funded. Speaking before the Steuben County Council last...

Foxwoods Armed Suspect Under the Influence of Crack Cocaine, Heroin Has Bond Reduced

Posted on: October 22, 2025, 10:06h. Last updated on: October 22, 2025, 10:18h. The suspect in this week’s Foxwoods police incident concedes he was high on drugs Defendant David Griswold’s attorney told the court he was on crack and heroin...

Dodd Center hosts sports-centered human rights summit 

The Dodd Center for Human Rights at the University of Connecticut will be hosting a three-day summit from Wednesday, Oct. 22 to Friday, Oct. 24 that will explore the connections between sports and human rights. James Waller, the Christopher J....

Mass. advancing $4M to help with food aid ahead of SNAP freeze, Gov. Healey says

BOSTON — Ahead of public food benefits running out for over a million Bay Staters on Saturday, Gov. Maura Healey announced Thursday that the state will advance a scheduled $4 million payment for food pantries — but is not tapping into the state’s...

Civil Rights DC Bureau Politics & Law ‘A boundless power’: Dem states ask Supreme Court to halt Trump troop deployment to Chicago

Every state with either a Democratic governor, attorney general or both signed a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to side with Illinois and Chicago to continue blocking President Donald Trump’s proposed deployment of National...

Rep. Jensen Joins Business Association Tour Highlighting Oxford Manufacturing Company

OXFORD — State Rep. Arnold Jensen (R-Oxford) recently joined the Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA) as part of the group’s manufacturing tour to numerous manufacturing facilities across Connecticut. Rep. Jensen met with...

Ex-Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson serving time in low-security Connecticut prison

Disgraced ex-Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson is serving her monthlong jail sentence following her corruption conviction for pocketing a $7,000 kickback at a low-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Fernandes Anderson,...

New Consolidated SCORE Chapter to Serve Small Businesses in Area Counties

AREA — To better serve the needs of start-up and established small businesses and entrepreneurs who dream of beginning a new business the SCORE Fairfield County, SCORE Western Connecticut and SCORE Northwestern Connecticut chapters recently...

Why Connecticut’s Wildlife Seems to Be Losing Its Mind Lately

Why Connecticut’s Wildlife Seems to Be Losing Its Mind Lately Is it just me, or does it seem like the wildlife in Connecticut is bugging the F out right now? You read about bears stealing people’s dry goods, raccoons committing petty crimes in...

Connecticut Department of Banking Issues Consent Order for Alleged Unlicensed Small-Loan Activity

On September 24, the Connecticut Department of Banking entered a consent order with a lender that offered advances based on anticipated personal-injury recoveries. The Department alleged that the company’s products constituted “small loans” under...

Foliage tracker: Here’s where leaves are peaking in New England right now

It’s hard on such a rainy day to think about trekking through all of the beautiful, vibrant foliage New England has to offer this special time of year. But after today, watch out because the weather for the rest of the week and into the weekend is...

CT Gov. Lamont to Mamdani: 'Revolution is easy, governing is hard'

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont is ready to work with Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral race, if he wins next week’s election. On CNN Thursday morning, he said Mamdani has run a great campaign. If he wins? “Now it's time...

ELECTION 2025 OP-ED — Understanding Planning & Zoning: Setting the Record Straight

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Trump has teased — and dismissed — the idea of a third term. Mass. Democrats are looking to stop one path he could try.

If Congress were to seek to make changes by calling a Constitutional Convention, those leaders argue, Trump’s allies could use applications states had filed decades ago to do so — even if they have nothing to do with the amendments being sought...

CT ACLU Legal Director: ’The closest analog to us is the McCarthy era’

On May 28, 2020, Trump signed Executive Order 13925 to “[prevent] online censorship.” This executive order, which boasts of free speech protections, discourages social media platforms from moderating content deemed complicit in selective...

Can you buy liquor from wholesale clubs like Costco or BJ’s in CT without a membership?

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. Create more of it with a tax-deductible donation today. You can buy liquor at wholesale clubs like Costco or BJ’s in Connecticut without a membership. State law requires that...