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In South Windsor there’s a celebrity who spends his days at a Paulie’s Professional Barber Shop. Just below the front door bell of the barber shop, there is a doggy in the window — he’s a star named Teddy.

Stubbs, the honorary feline mayor of the Alaska town of Talkeetna, has died at the age of 20. The animal’s owners announced the cat’s death late Saturday in a statement.

Three people were killed, including a 6-year-old boy, and 12 others were wounded Sunday after a gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. A suspect was shot and killed by police.

The City of New Haven will have a new mayor for the first time in six years when Justin Elicker is sworn in in a few weeks.

The City of New Haven has a new mayor today. Justin Elicker was sworn in Wednesday afternoon.

The Connecticut Airport Authority is now working with state building officials to determine if firefighting foam systems using PFAS in certain airport hangars can be replaced with water.

Tests are underway to see if the water supply at a primary school in Canton was contaminated with a potentially dangerous firefighting foam.

For the first time since the firefighting foam spill in June, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is making it clear that it disagrees with a draft report from Signature Flight’s consultant that no drinking water wells should be tested for PFAS.

The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has spent $600,000 on the environmental cleanup following the B-17 crash.

The City of New Haven will have a new mayor for the first time in six years when Justin Elicker is sworn in in a few weeks.

The City of New Haven will have a new mayor for the first time in six years when Justin Elicker is sworn in in a few weeks. Elicker spoke with NBC Connecticut about his transition and what he hopes to accomplish as he prepares to lead.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abruptly fired the city’s top cop Monday, terminating Supt. Eddie Johnson over allegations he “intentionally misled” both her and the public. Lightfoot said Johnson “engaged in a series of actions intolerable for any leader in a position of trust,” citing evidence she had reviewed from an ongoing investigation by the inspector general into an incident in...

As he labors to win over black voters whose support is vital to his Democratic presidential bid, Pete Buttigieg found a receptive host on Sunday in a civil rights activist who has sought to continue the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s push for a racially diverse national campaign against poverty. After attending services at the Rev. William Barber’s Greenleaf Christian...

Joe Sestak ended his long-shot campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination Sunday, telling supporters that he couldn’t raise money because he was unable to break through in the media. Sestak, a former U.S. representative from Pennsylvania who turns 68 next week, qualified for none of the Democratic debates and failed to register even 1 percent in most opinion polls, NBC...

Sunday’s storm turned deadly after a tree fell on an Eversource contractor in Middletown, according to police.

People in New Britain believe something needs to be done about teens breaking into cars or stealing them.

The Blue Hills Fire Department in Bloomfield has decided to cut most perks for its fire commissioners after complaints from taxpayers.

Fire investigators are sifting through debris as they look for the cause of the blaze that destroyed the Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford on Sunday.

Across Connecticut, more and more groups are coming forward to offer assistance to federal workers going without pay during the government shutdown.

Michael Bloomberg will not accept political donations if he runs for president and he will not take a salary if he wins, according to senior aides who offered new details on Saturday about the New York billionaire’s plans to navigate his wealth as he marches toward a formal 2020 announcement. “He has never taken a political contribution in his life....