Philip Giordano

The last time a child abuser showed as much audacity as Jerry Sandusky did Tuesday in Bellefonte, Pa., was 12 years ago. Philip Giordano, then Waterbury's mayor, in a long shot bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman, accused Lieberman of votes...

Benjamin Quinones was fired March 24 from his high-paying state job as a lieutenant on the police force at the state mental hospital in Middletown after an internal investigation concluded that he had put in for 528 overtime hours that he didn't work. Now...

And so it ends, at least for now. After a two year investigation, a month-long trial and endless defiant vows of innocence, convicted Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez announced Friday in a bizarrely vague press release that he would "relinquish his duties."...

To the extent that such events can be fixed in time, the moment Mayor Philip A. Giordano's obsession with sex jumped from back-alley gossip to pressing political business occurred at the end of a corny downtown Christmas pageant. Giordano backers, the...

Waterbury isn’t the first place in Connecticut you might associate with marijuana growing. After all, it’s a conservative little city known more for political corruption than the cultivation of high-class weed. (Both disgraced governor-...

Adolfo ``Big Al'' Bruno was almost the last man standing. His longtime boss was dead. His chief rival was headed to prison. At 58, he was reputed to be one of just a few made men in the Mafia world of western Massachusetts and central Connecticut....

The holidays play themselves out in many places and many ways. We visit a few of them, and our writers bring back stories of camels, carols, Christmas trees and that thing called hope. • • • Report from Bethlehem The news this Christmas season from...