Police: Connecticut father, son die in fall from cliff

Police say a 71-year-old man and his adult son riding an all-terrain vehicle near an abandoned quarry in Connecticut have died in a fall off a cliff

GOP leaders want special session to correct 'badly written' meal tax law

Republicans and Democrats dug in Wednesday on whether Connecticut law clearly defines what is a meal subject to the sales tax. At issue is the impact of two words in the new budget, "grocery store," on a longstanding interpretation by state tax...

Elephant at center of 'personhood' legal fight dies

An elephant that had been at the center of a legal effort to give animals "personhood" has died

Connecticut library hosts Drag Queen Story Hour

Drag Queen Story Hour, which has drawn protests in some areas of the country, is coming to another Connecticut library

Embattled Fall River mayor survives preliminary election

A Massachusetts mayor facing multiple federal corruption charges will be on the November ballot after surviving a preliminary election

Review of planned state tax on prepared foods under way

Gov. Ned Lamont says a review of which prepared foods should be taxed is under way by Connecticut's tax department

Providence Diocese reports steep decline in parishioners

The Diocese of Providence says Catholic churches across the state have experienced a steep decline in the number of parishioners in recent years

Police: Connecticut man neglected elderly, sick mother

Authorities say a Connecticut man who was supposed to be caring for his severely ill 85-year-old mother instead let her wallow in squalor in a home without heat or running water

Rhode Island reports two more people have mosquito-borne EEE

Rhode Island officials have confirmed two more human cases of eastern equine encephalitis this season

Review of Connecticut shelter data finds high numbers of ex-convicts

Data from the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness shows nearly 50% of people in homeless shelters in Connecticut over the past three years were also incarcerated at some point

No new measles cases reported in fading U.S. outbreak

U.S. health officials say there were no new measles cases reported last week

Propane blast kills Maine firefighter, hurts 6

Officials say a propane gas explosion in Farmington, Maine, killed a firefighter and injured six other people

Lamont seeks to end religious exemption to vaccinations

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont is recommending Connecticut join a growing number of states in eliminating the religious exemption to childhood vaccinations