New state House Speaker Christopher Donovan, D-Meriden, has hired a press secretary for an eye-popping $165,000 a year to translate the political objectives of the Democratic House majority into a clear public message.

A 23-year-old man who police say kidnapped a woman in Rhode Island was arrested Thursday afternoon while driving south on I-95 with the woman in the car, state police said.

A man who nearly killed his wife a year ago when he stabbed her repeatedly during an argument about his drunken-driving arrest earlier that day was sentenced Friday in Superior Court in New Britain to 17 years in prison, suspended after seven years.

A 23-year-old man who police say kidnapped a woman in Rhode Island was arrested Thursday afternoon while driving south on I-95 with the woman in the car, state police said.

A man who nearly killed his wife a year ago when he stabbed her repeatedly during an argument about his drunken-driving arrest earlier that day was sentenced Friday in Superior Court in New Britain to 17 years in prison, suspended after seven years.

Sacred Heart Church overflowed Saturday with several hundred people — family members, friends, local, state and national politicians — who gathered to celebrate Faith McMahon's full-speed-ahead life and mourn her death.

As Sen. Joe Lieberman stood in front of a think-tank audience Thursday to lay out his plan for one U.S. war, about 75 reservist soldiers from Connecticut prepared to go to another.

Edmond B. Dube was meek yet comical, small but strong, a lover of science fiction whose favorite phrase was "Not a problem."

Eighteen years ago, Robert L. Genuario was a freshman legislator getting a vivid lesson in budgets and salesmanship from Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr.

In his ruling on a pioneering Internet free speech case last month, U.S. District Judge Mark R. Kravitz offered something of a plea to higher courts: Revisit the boundaries of free speech for students.

He's still the mayor.