Eric D Coleman

A controversial proposal to raise the salaries of more than 160 state Superior Court judges by about $24,000 in the next four years has become a forgotten topic in the news since the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown —...

Medical marijuana will no longer be illegal in Connecticut. Gov. Dannel Malloy signed the medical pot bill into law Friday, saying that, “With careful regulation and safeguards, this law will allow a doctor and a patient to decide what is in that...

The ugly police abuse scandal in East Haven has finally lit some serious fires under state lawmakers and Gov. Dannel Malloy, who promised Wednesday that Connecticut’s 12-year-old anti-racial profiling law would at last be enforced. Minority...

By the slimmest of margins, the Senate on Saturday approved a bill that decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The vote was 18-18, with Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman tipping the balance with the tie-breaking vote. After years of false...

On the same day a grim new employment report showed continuing weakness in the job market, the Senate Friday approved Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's premier economic development initiative. The measure, dubbed "First Five" by the administration, empowers the...

Up to now, the Connecticut General Assembly has never approved any of the bills offered in recent years that would enable cities and towns to install cameras at red lights and collect fines by mailing tickets to violators. But this year's bill —...

by Mark Silva The Republican "brand'' has suffered with the admissions of extramarital affairs by two of the party's most promising members, another Republican prospect for national office said today. The confessions of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford...

by Mark Silva Now that a three-judge panel in Minnesota has declared late-night-comic-turned-daytime-congressional-candidate Al Franken the winner of the state's long-disputed Senate eection, his party is calling on the incumbent Repubican, Sen. Norm...