Cornerback Jasper Howard called his mom Saturday night after Connecticut beat Louisville, and he was given the game-winning ball. He was thrilled. Just hours later, the phone rang again. This time it was UConn football coach Randy Edsall notifying her that her son had been stabbed. He was pronounced dead early Sunday.

A dozen elementary school students have been suspended after something described as “inappropriate” and “sexual” happened on a Connecticut elementary school bus. It was so bad that 12 Generali Elementary School students will be transferred to other schools after they serve out their suspensions.

Police in Connecticut say they have arrested a woman suspected of robbing at least six banks, often while claiming to have a bomb, in the past week.

A Connecticut woman is hoping to use her lifelong struggle with anorexia to make a difference for others.

Yale University employee Raymond Clark, 24, has been taken into custody in connection with the killing of Yale student Annie Le, police said. A judge issued a search warrant for his home and a body warrant for his DNA, said James Lewis, the police chief in New Haven, Connecticut.

Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building accessible only to university employees.

A Connecticut man is fielding offers after posting one of his greatest treasures for sale on Craigslist. Michael Amatrudo was bored over the weekend and decided to sell an unusual item: his parents.

Betty Lichtenstein had been working as a nurse in a doctor’s office but after investigating, authorities realized she wasn’t a nurse.

Connecticut cops have busted a bird-brained scheme to pit canaries against one another.

Instead of giving up potato chips, beer or dessert for Lent, how about Facebook?

Middletown, Connecticut police have accused a Durham mom of bringing her infant daughter to a bar, drinking and then later breast feeding while she drank more booze.

Connecticut police have arrested three men accused of running a swingers’ club inside a hotel bar. E-mailed photos of risqué behavior led police to Club 91 and the Beverly Hills Suites in Windsor Locks. They said on weekends the club would run “Swingers Groups” where men and women came to either engage in or watch sexual activity. 

Parents at a Connecticut middle school are furious after two black students were bound with rope to demonstrate the evils of slavery.

Democrats are letting Sen. Joe Lieberman keep his prized chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite supporting Republican
John McCain for president.

A key Democrat wants Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman kicked out of his post as a committee chairman.