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Woman sues hospital over fall off operating table
A woman sued a Connecticut hospital Tuesday, saying she was severely injured when she fell off an operating table after surgery. Attorneys for 81-year-old Florence Fiedler of New Canaan filed the lawsuit against Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven Superior Court. The hospital said it apologized to the woman and ...
Report: More women, minorities on Conn. boards
A new report shows more women, blacks and Hispanics now sit on state boards and commissions, but the numbers still don't match the diversity of Connecticut's population. While women hold a slim majority in the state, the report conducted by the Office of the Secretary of the State found there ...
RI board met privately about sport institute
The Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education held a closed-door meeting in February to discuss "potential litigation" connected to a sport institute facing a police investigation. Meeting minutes released to The Associated Press under a public records request show the board met in executive session on Feb. 23 ...
Conn. breaks ground on $567M bus-only project
After years of planning, state officials have broken ground on a rebranded half-billion-dollar Hartford-to-New Britain bus-only corridor. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other officials participated in a brief ceremony Tuesday at the site of a future station in Hartford. After 16 years of planning, Malloy said it's "high time" the ...
39 more arrested in New Haven drug investigation
Federal authorities say 39 more people have been arrested in a yearlong investigation of drug crimes and gang violence in New Haven, bringing the total to 90. Tuesday's arrests were connected to grand jury indictments earlier this month that charged 101 people with drug crimes involving cocaine, heroin, marijuana and ...
Dems endorse ex-con seeking Conn. Senate seat
Voters in Bridgeport and Stratford will decide how a Democratic endorsement of convicted felon and former state legislator Ernest Newton will play out in his bid to regain his state Senate seat. Newton served 17 years in the General Assembly before giving up the 23rd Senate District seat and pleading ...
United Tech CEO hints at sale of fuel cell firm
The chief executive officer of industrial conglomerate United Technologies Corp. hinted Tuesday that it could sell its fuel cell business. CEO Louis Chenevert of the Hartford-based company — which owns jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney, Otis elevator, Carrier heating and cooling and other aviation and building systems companies — ...
Conn. Supreme Court to hear trooper staffing case
The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration to Connecticut's law requiring a minimum number of state troopers. The Connecticut State Police Union sued Malloy and the state public safety commissioner last August because the state wasn't abiding by the law requiring ...
Twitter posts lead to arrests of W. Haven teens
Two West Haven High School students have been arrested and expelled over alleged threats they made to the school on the Twitter social media site. Sgt. Dave Tammaro tells The New Haven Register (http://bit.ly/JN5xVz ) that the tweets were found by teachers earlier this month and had been posted by ...
Remote-control buoys come to Rhode Island beaches
Lifeguards in Westerly will soon be equipped with remote-controlled buoys they can deploy to help swimmers in distress. Lisa Konicki, executive director of the Westerly-Pawcatuck Area Chamber of Commerce, tells WTIC-TV (http://cour.at/JNlMSC ) the beaches will be the first in the region to use the EMILY system. EMILY is an ...
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