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Actress and activist Jane Fonda spent a night in a local jail after her fourth arrest in as many weeks while participating in a climate change demonstration on Capitol Hill. The 81-year-old Oscar winner was among more than 40 people arrested Friday while sitting in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building. A spokesman for Fire Drill Fridays, Ira...

Jane Fonda was arrested for the second time this month on Friday.  Fonda was trying to bring attention to the “Green New Deal” and raise awareness about climate change.

A judge is determining whether a former drama student accused of stabbing two fellow students at the University of Hartford is not guilty by reason of insanity.

A Connecticut couple seeking to stop the public release of additional information about schools’ immunization rates is asking the Department of Public Health to expedite its decision.

A Superior Court judge has given the eastern Connecticut town of Lebanon ownership of its mile-long green.

Just two days after his second arrest in connection with the disappearance of his estranged wife, Fotis Dulos at Superior Court in Hartford for the latest hearing in the ongoing civil case brought against him by his father-in-law’s estate.

A Georgia triplet accused of fatally stabbing one of his brothers says the stabbing was a mistake and he only meant to hug his brother. News outlets report 36-year-old Kenneth Jernigan made his first court appearance Thursday after telling police he accidentally killed his brother, Kevin Jernigan. Jernigan was charged last week with murder and possession of a knife during...

The smell in Kearny is so bad it is actually making breathing difficult for some neighbors, and health officials have been forced to close a neighboring soccer field four times within the last 10 days

The mother of a missing Connecticut woman has asked a judge to grant her sole custody of her daughter’s five children.

The estate of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the families of two men he was acquitted of killing. Court records show that a Superior Court judge Tuesday issued an order of dismissal of the suit brought by the families of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado.

New Jersey’s high court took action Wednesday against two judges who have faced criticism over their comments in cases involving sexual assault

A Connecticut appeals court has upheld a lower court decision throwing out a lawsuit filed by the parents of two Sandy Hook School shooting victims against Newtown and its school district.

A police chase that began in New Haven, ended in Hamden in a crash on Thursday afternoon.

When a 16-year-old New Jersey boy was accused of raping an intoxicated girl, filming the assault and sending the video to his friends, the prosecutor sought to try him as an adult. But a state Superior Court judge in South Jersey shot down that request in part because, the judge said, the boy “comes from a good family” and is...

Moments after a North Carolina man pleaded guilty to gunning down three Muslim university students, a prosecutor played a cellphone video of the slayings in court Wednesday as one of the victims’ relatives fainted, others wept and a man cursed the confessed killer openly. Craig Stephen Hicks, 50, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder more than four years...

Police have arrested the estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, a missing New Canaan woman, and his girlfriend in connection to her missing person case.

An ethics committee has recommended a three-month, unpaid suspension for a judge accused of making an improper comment to a sex assault victim.

Fifty women are suing Salesforce, alleging the company profited by helping Backpage to engage in sex trafficking. The women, referred to only as anonymous Jane Does, identify themselves as survivors of sex trafficking, rape and abuse — facilitated through Backpage.

A man has been charged with murder in a deadly Manchester shooting.

A judge on Tuesday rejected Bill Cosby’s bid for a new trial or sentencing hearing, leading the comedian’s wife, Camille, to again accuse the judge of bias against her husband.