Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)

Conn. commuters cope with tough week after train crash

2013-05-20 09:26:00

Commuters on Monday grappled with the inconvenience of their morning ritual after a deadly train collision in Connecticut last week, but the traffic nightmare that some had predicted did not materialize. Special shuttle buses and telecommuting took some...

Justice Department secretly obtained AP telephone records

2013-05-13 14:53:00

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained records of telephone calls from more than 20 telephone lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists over a two-month period in an apparent investigation of a leak of sensitive...

Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists

2013-05-13 21:33:00

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot...

Guidelines for Freelance Writers

2013-04-24 16:44:00

Dear Travel Writer: Welcome to the cornerstone of what we do. What follows is the most important information contained in these several pages. The Los Angeles Times values honesty, fairness and truth. We understand the difficulties of the profession,...

He's got Armenia under his skin, and we get a guidebook

2013-04-17 08:30:00

By some measures, Matthew Karanian was a Connecticut Yankee: a 34-year-old litigator in Hartford, American-born and bred. But he had a wild idea. So he took a summer off, headed for the rustic land of his ancestors, and soon found that Armenia was...

American Airlines expanding LAX service with eight new destinations

2013-04-10 10:17:00

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. For a carrier whose parent company is still in bankruptcy, American Airlines doesn’t show signs of retrenching. The airline announced plans Wednesday to expand to eight new...

American Airlines to expand LAX service by adding 8 destinations

2013-04-11 00:00:00

For an air carrier whose parent company is still in bankruptcy, American Airlines doesn't show signs of retrenching. American announced plans Wednesday to add eight destinations out of Los Angeles International Airport in an effort to secure more big-...

Newtown families help Obama press for gun reform

2013-04-08 21:04:00

HARTFORD, Conn. — President Obama sought Monday to use the emotional pull of the Newtown school massacre to galvanize public support for his drive to pass stricter gun control measures, even as more than a dozen Republican senators promised to...

The Week in Pictures | April 1-7, 2013

2013-04-05 15:32:22

Pictures in the News | April 3, 2013

2013-04-03 10:24:14

Connecticut lawmakers approve sweeping new gun law

2013-04-03 23:40:00

Lawmakers in Connecticut, the site of the Dec. 14 massacre that renewed a national debate over gun control, passed a bipartisan measure that increases background checks for buyers and bans the sale of semiautomatic rifles like the one used in Newtown&...

New sheriff of Wall St. is racking up insider trading convictions

2013-03-29 18:36:00

NEW YORK — Preet Bharara, the man dubbed the new sheriff of Wall Street, notched another arrest in the government's vast insider trading probe. This time the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan nabbed a top portfolio manager at one of America's...

Hartford - 05/18/13 - Central Connecticut State University commencement exercises at XL Center Sunday. Photo by BRAD HORRIGAN | bhorrigan@courant.com

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Hartford police officer Jim Elliott of Avon will be biking the circumference of Connecticut in 26 hours to raise money for the Newtown Memorial Fund. Although Elliott will make his ride on June 14, he is having a benefit for the charity this Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Russian Lady in Hartford.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Hartford attorney Nick Harding is helping Starling Childs, president of the Berkshire-Litchfield Environmental Council bring suit against the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for not more severely punishing developers for clear cutting nearly three acres of state forest

2013-05-14 00:00:00