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Virtus: Q1 Earnings Snapshot
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Virtus Investment Partners Inc. (VRTS) on Friday reported first-quarter profit of $29.9 million. The Hartford, Connecticut-based company said it had profit of $4.10 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to...
Ellen Ash Peters, first female chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, dies at 94
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Ellen Ash Peters, who was the first woman to serve as Connecticut's chief justice and wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court's landmark school desegregation ruling in 1996, has died. She was 94. Peters, who also was the first female faculty...
Back to back! UConn fans gather to celebrate another basketball championship
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Thousands of fans lined the streets of downtown Hartford on Saturday to fete the UConn men's basketball team following its second straight NCAA championship, its sixth in the past 25 years. The players and coaches paraded on a double-decker bus with an...
Fans welcome UConn's repeat champs back to the 'Basketball Capital of the World'
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn's men's basketball team returned Tuesday night to the campus the school has branded the “Basketball Capital of the World.” Fans lined the streets in Eastern Connecticut, cheering as the team's buses passed by on the hourlong journey from Bradley...
Man pleads guilty to attacking Muslim state representative in Connecticut
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man who attacked a Muslim state representative outside a prayer service in Connecticut pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted sexual assault and other crimes in a plea deal that calls for a five-year prison sentence. Andrey Desmond, 30, appeared in Hartford...
2 dead after canoe overturns on Connecticut lake
BOLTON, Conn. (AP) — Two men are dead after a canoe overturned on a Connecticut lake Wednesday, authorities said. Environmental conservation police responded after the canoe overturned on Lower Bolton Lake, about 15 miles east of Hartford, according to the state Department of...
Reputed gang leader acquitted of murder charge after 3rd trial in Connecticut
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man who denies having led a violent Hartford gang has been acquitted of a murder charge and freed following a third trial that resulted from the state Supreme Court overturning his conviction. Donald Raynor, now 38, broke down in tears when the...
Connecticut woman accused of killing husband and hiding his body pleads guilty to manslaughter
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 76-year-old Connecticut woman who was accused of killing her husband, hiding his body for months and collecting his paychecks pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday, a state prosecutor said. Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi was arrested in February 2018 in the death of...