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CT: Rell announces plan to rebuild 23 highway service plazas

By Josh Kovner

Gov. M. Jodi Rell on Thursday announced a deal with associates of Subway restaurants that she said would rebuild the 23 highway service plazas and create 350 jobs.

CT: Connecticut -- Road, bridge projects face funding reality

By Don Stacom

Across Connecticut, communities and business leaders are lobbying the state to widen their highways, build interchanges, replace bridges and expand public transit systems.

CT: State's home loan pain grows -- Foreclosure, delinquency rate soars

By Kenneth R. Gosselin

Foreclosures and seriously delinquent home loans in Connecticut logged another grim milestone in the third quarter, soaring a full percentage point to 7 percent of all loans — the largest quarterly increase in nearly 30 years, according to a new report Thursday.

CT: Former U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor says he won't run for governor

By Edmund H. Mahony

Kevin O'Connor, a Republican former U.S. attorney and former associate U.S. attorney general, said Thursday that he will not run for governor, a decision that reshapes what is expected to be a hard-fought contest to replace Gov. M. Jodi Rell.

CT: Connecticut gets federal grant to buy video conferencing equipment for prisons, courthouses

By Shawn R. Beals

Two federal grants will allow the state Department of Correction to buy video conferencing equipment to cut down on the number of inmates transported to state courthouses.

CT: Carlyle to run Conn. roadside service stops

By Thomas Heath

The Carlyle Group said Thursday that it has signed a deal with Connecticut to refurbish and run the state's 23 highway service stops in return for a share of the revenue over the next 35 years.

CT: Schools shift strategy on swine flu, staying open more

By Grace E. Merritt

Despite a handful of school closings last month when a second wave of swine flu hit the state — including one decision to close schools in a district where only 6 percent of the students were out sick — superintendents overall now seem to be showing more restraint when deciding whether to close.

CT: Starwood hotels to move headquarters to Stamford

By Staff Reports

STAMFORD, Conn. -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. says it will move its headquarters from White Plains, N.Y., to Stamford in January 2012, with the help of millions of dollars in incentives from the state of Connecticut.

CT: Lawmaker stopped again for using cell phone in car

By The Associated Press

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- A Connecticut lawmaker says he's paid more than $390 in fines and his driver's license has been reinstated after he was pulled over by police a second time for illegally using a cell phone while driving.

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