Dave Altimari / CT Mirror

A Bridgeport man convicted of conspiracy in a double murder that led the state to create a witness protection program has been granted clemency from his federal drug sentence by former President Joe Biden .

The state’s program to help residents of the North End with chronic flooding issues will be shut down at the end of the year because the federal funding to support it will dry up and the number of applications has waned.

Connecticut state officials Monday outlined a new safety program for home health care workers that will include GPS monitoring and escorts to potentially risky clients.

The state is assigning two election monitors to oversee the shortened absentee ballot application process prior to a court-ordered second Democratic primary between Mayor Joe Ganim and challenger John Gomes next month.

The state has already distributed more than $750,000 to residents of Hartford’s North End, but some people are already seeking changes to the state's flooding relief program.

If John Gomes were to defeat Mayor Joe Ganim, there be another general election, with Gomes’ name on the top line.

State police union officials on Wednesday said that 20% of the 130 state troopers accused of either submitting false ticket data or underreporting their numbers to a racial profiling database have been exonerated since the release of the audit a few weeks ago.

Both Williams and the wrong-way driver who caused the fatal crash had blood-alcohol levels far above 0.08%, a state police investigation found.

Chips of lead paint are falling off hundreds of bridges in Connecticut at such a rate that the state Department of Transportation has put out an alert to municipalities and intends to hire contractors to clean it up.

The state has terminated the contract of AAIS, a West Haven hazardous waste remediation company. It's ensnared in the federal investigation into former state official Konstantinos Diamantis.