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Students at Trinity College in Hartford are holding an anti-violence rally after a sophomore was attacked and brutally beaten over the weekend near the edge of campus. The incident was reported early Sunday morning on Allen Place. Officials said Chris Kenny had to undergo seven hours of reconstructive surgery after he was kicked in the face. Thursday's rally is in response to how the school is handling an increase in violence in the area. The university is also under fire from students for notifying Kenny's parents of the assault the next day. "Yes that happened, it was bad communication," said...

HARTFORD —— City officials say Occupy Hartford protesters must leave their encampment at the corner of Farmington Avenue and Broad Street by 6 p.m. Tuesday. Hartford Police Chief Daryl K. Roberts said protesters camping at the area they've named Turning Point Park have been notified that they risk being arrested after the deadline passes. "I don't anticipate any trouble, but I will take appropriate corrective action," Roberts said.

City police Friday shut down an attempt by some Occupy Hartford campers to set up a new encampment at a downtown skateboarding park known as Heaven. The campers told officers that they were making the move because of drug use, violent behavior and a sexual assault that occurred Thursday at the Occupy Hartford site at the corner of Broad Street and Asylum Avenue. Police went to the Broad Street site Friday evening and interviewed the assault victim, who told police that a man entered her tent after her husband left and kissed and groped her. The woman, who has been...

Victim Kept Silent About Occupy Hartford Sex AssaultFemale victim said she didn't want to draw negative attention to the Occupy cause. Saturday, Dec 3, 2011 | Updated 2:39 PM EST A group at the Occupy Hartford campsite, including the victim, tried to keep a sex assault quiet, police said. Police received an anonymous call Thursday reporting the sex assault at the Occupy Hartford site in Turning Point Park on Broad Street. Investigating officers located the victim, a woman who told them a man aggressively kissed her neck and groped her breasts against her wishes. Several others at the campsite intervened...

Connecticut Light & Power's president and CEO, Jeff Butler is resigning, Northeast Utilities has confirmed. Northeast Utilities' Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Charles W. Shivery, said Thursday the utility company has accepted Butler's resignation, effective immediately. Butler came under fire from his handling of the massive power outages during a freak October snow storm that left more than 800,000 CL&P customers without power, some for as long as 12 days. Noreen Cameron of West Hartford said one of the worst mistakes CL&P made was saying 99 percent of their customers would have their power back on the Sunday following...

They marched, yelling chants and holding signs, Occupy Hartford protesters filled the streets of Hartford under heavy police guard. Police on foot, in cruisers and on horses were present to keep the peace as a group made their way down Farmington Avenue and to the Broad Street on ramp to Interstate 84. Some even got arrested for blocking the on ramp, something the group said they planned to do as an act of civil disobedience. In the end police arrested 12 people. Earlier in the day, Matt O'Connor, whose union backs the protesters, said the demonstration was a rallying cry...

Everyone knows Halloween in celebrated on Oct. 31 but a state lawmaker wants to tamper with tradition to ensure the holiday is always marked on a weekend. State Rep. Tim Larson is proposing that the legislature designate the last Saturday in October as Halloween. He says it would make the holiday less harried for working parents, safer for trick-or-treaters and boost the economy as well. "Halloween is fun night for the whole family, but not so much when you have to race home from work, get the kids ready for trick or treating, welcome the neighborhood children, and then try...

The Connecticut Public Transportation Commission is seeking opinions about public transportation services, as well as the proposed busway from Hartford to New Britain. Monday's public hearing at the Plainville Municipal Center will be the last of four hearings the commission has held statewide this fall. The panel is seeking comment from the public, transportation providers and other groups about services such as Connecticut Transit and DATTCO bus service and intercity bus service. Members want to know whether improvements need to be made and if the public's needs are being met. The commission also wants opinions about the busway, the need...

The parent company for the Hartford Courant has announced plans to eliminate jobs in an effort to cut costs. The newspaper cites an email from CT1 Media saying that some of the positions being eliminated include those in the newsroom as well as production and administration departments. The paper reported late Thursday that it was not immediately clear how many positions will be cut and when that will happen.

Hartford PR SEO Social Media Marketing Group To Attend CT Business Expo By Herb Brandon Israel News Agency Hartford, CT ---- June 7, 2011 .... The Hartford PR SEO Social Media Marketing Group has announced that it will be attending the CT Business Expo in Hartford, Connecticut on June 9. HartfordPr.co and HartfordSocialMedia.com have been providing Internet marketing, digital PR, SEO and social media services since 1995. The Leyden Digital PR, SEO, Social Media Group, which owns and operates HartfordPr.co and HartfordSocialMedia.com is credited for creating some of the first commercial, governmental and news Websites on the Web. The Leyden...

HARTFORD —— Signaling that the fight over the controversial New Britain busway isn't finished, two state legislators are asking one of the top Republicans in Congress to block the project. "There is no popular support for the project. The average person understands that it makes no sense, even in flush times," Sen. Joe Markley, R-Southington, and Rep. Whit Betts, R-Bristol, said in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner. "We urge you to do all in your power to stop the federal funding." Connecticut is asking the Federal Transit Administration for $275 million to help build the roughly $570 million...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The State Bond Commission has approved nearly $90 million in bonds to begin construction on a planned busway between New Britain and Hartford. The vote came despite concerns raised by Republican members about the project's high price tag. Malloy announced this month that he was backing the project, estimated to cost more than $572 million. He said he was reluctant to risk losing federal funding for the paved, 9.4-mile corridor. The federal government is expected to spend nearly $460 million on the project. Connecticut has already spent more than $23 million on design and acquiring property.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Convicted former Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez is seeking more than $130,000 in unused sick and vacation time. Bart Halloran, Perez's attorney, has sent to Hartford's director of human resources asking the former mayor be paid for 1,200 hours of unused vacation and 768 of unused sick time. Perez was convicted of using a city contractor to have free work done at his home and could be going to prison. The former mayor's criminal conviction doesn't change the fact he was a city employee, said Saundra Kee Borges with the city's Corporation Counsel.

CONNECTICUT's WDRC talk network (WDRC 1360 Hartford, WMMW 1470 Meriden, WWCO 1240 Waterbury, WSNG 610 Torrington) is the latest prominent outlet to drop Glenn Beck's syndicated talk show. Starting April 4, the 9-noon timeslot now filled by Beck (who draws a passionate listener base but whose show is reportedly difficult to sell to top-tier advertisers wary of the controversies he engenders) will instead be filled by Mary Jones. She'd lost her weekday WDRC gig a while back, and had been doing weekends - and she'll share the 9-10 AM hour with WDRC morning man Brad Jones (as "Leatherneck and Lace"),...

McLachlan sponsors birth certificate bill in HartfordStacy Davis, Staff Writer Published: 11:02 p.m., Monday, January 31, 2011 DANBURY -- State Sen. Michael McLachlan, R-Danbury, submitted a bill proposal mandating U.S. presidential and vice presidential candidates provide their birth certificates for their names to be placed on the ballot. "You have to have a birth certificate to get a driver's license," McLachlan said. "The same should be true to become president or vice president." He submitted his proposal Jan. 20 after hearing several arguments about President Barack Obama's citizenship, he said. "They claim that he is not a natural-born citizen." McLachlan...

Last night over at the city hall in the city of Hartford, CT, USA, in protest over the revoking by the Hartford City Council of the offering of prayers to open up the City Council meeting. Imam Kashiff Abdul-Karim offered outside in front of the City, prayers in both Arabic and in English. From NBC Tv Connecticut’s website:”The Hartford City Council had invited imams to start its two September meetings with prayer, including the meeting on Monday. It was meant to show solidarity with Muslims at a time of controversy over the proposed mosque near Ground Zero and the possible...

In the wake of the battle over a mosque at Ground Zero, a move by Hartford City Council is sure to have its critics. The Council announced Tuesday that it has invited local imams to perform Islamic invocations at the beginning of the Council meetings in September.

City Council Meetings to Begin with Muslim Prayers By BOB CONNORS Updated 6:50 PM EDT, Tue, Sep 7, 2010 In the wake of the battle over a mosque at Ground Zero, a move by Hartford City Council is sure to have its critics. The Council announced Tuesday that it has invited local imams to perform Islamic invocations at the beginning of the Council meetings in September. Though meetings don't regularly begin with any form of prayer, an email from the Common Council called it "an act of solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters." The email even referenced the ongoing...

The girlfriend of the man who gunned down eight people before turning the gun on himself at a Connecticut beer distributorship Tuesday said she heard evidence of enough racial harassment the man had allegedly suffered at work to drive someone "crazy."

Nine people are dead in a workplace shooting in a Manchester, Ct., beer-distribution warehouse, and an unknown number are wounded. On Tuesday morning, Omar Thornton, a driver for Hartford Distributors, went on a shooting rampage during a morning shift change, and then killed himself, police say. Mr. Thornton, who had worked for the company for a couple of years, had been called in for a disciplinary hearing, according to reports, and was on his way there this morning. It was unclear whether the meeting had taken place before he started shooting. Joanne Hannah, a former neighbor of Thornton whose daughter...