The Latest Breaking News from Hartford

HARTFORD, Conn. — Fresh off helping the UConn men’s basketball team to a national championship, superstar sophomore Jordan Hawkins declared for the NBA draft, he announced Friday sitting alongside head coach Dan Hurley on ESPN’s NBA Today.

HARTFORD, Conn. — The UConn men’s basketball team was the talk of Houston after cruising to a national championship on Monday, but Houston’s attention has turned from the brilliance of the Huskies to the perceived ignorance of Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont after comments he made about the host city.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Former UConn men’s basketball star Ben Gordon was arrested Tuesday, just a day after his former college team won the national championship, following a bizarre incident in which he allegedly threatened multiple people with a knife at a juice shop in Stamford.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Doogie Lish Sandtiger, 32, is known as the “Croc hunter,” but it’s not as risky as it sounds because he’s in pursuit of the trendy, rubber-like shoes.

HARTFORD, Conn. — A reported occurrence under investigation by Archdiocese of Hartford as a possible miracle at a Roman Catholic church in Thomaston has similarities to Jesus’ miracle of multiplying the loaves and fishes, which itself resonates with the Last Supper, according to the chaplain of Albertus Magnus College.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz launched a Reproductive Freedom Coalition Monday composed of lieutenant governors from 22 states and territories who plan to act as a “firewall” against diminishing reproductive freedoms in the U.S.

HARTFORD, Conn. — A lawyer for Michelle Troconis, the woman accused of conspiring with her former boyfriend Fotis Dulos to commit murder, tried to persuade the Connecticut Supreme Court on Wednesday that her legal team has been wrongly denied access to records of a divorce case in which a judge…

HARTFORD, Conn. — Five children and teenagers from Derby, Connecticut, were killed in a fiery crash in New York on Sunday morning, police said.

Antonina “Ann” Uccello, the first woman elected a mayor in Connecticut when she won an upset victory in Hartford as a Republican in 1967, has died

HARTFORD, Conn. — With thousands of shootings already this year nationwide, Connecticut lawmakers clashed Monday over Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposals to restrict the purchase and use of guns.

HARTFORD, Conn. — A group of Central Connecticut Student University students and allies protested the screening of the documentary “The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM,” to be hosted by the Turning Point USA student chapter, which ultimately canceled the public screening on Thursday night.