• UConn defensive coordinator Matt Brock headed back to Mississippi State

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• UConn gets fully healthy as star returns in the nick of time as Huskies meet Florida

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Photos

• Dianna Pategas, Connecticut Children’s Foundation vice president of stewardship and donor relations, talks about the training mannequin at the Brian & Kim Connolly Simulation Suite during a tour of the new Connecticut Children’s Clinical Tower Thursday. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

  PHOTOS: Connecticut Children’s new clinical tower

  The Connecticut Children’s new clinical tower is officially open during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025.

• Southington’s quarterback Luke Prozzo (10) runs for a first down against Glastonbury during the first half at Southington High School during a LL Quarterfinal game on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

  PHOTOS: Southington moves past Glastonbury in Class LL football playoffs

• Morley School students use a wagon to carry food through Blue Back Square on their way to West Hartford Town Hall during the 31st annual Morley School Red Wagon Food Drive on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. All donated food will go to the West Hartford Food Pantry. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

  PHOTOS: Connecticut in November

• Sarah Brightman brought her new Christmas spectacle A Winter Symphony tour to Mohegan Sun Arena, on an 18-city tour. (Mark Maglio)

  PHOTOS: Sarah Brightman at Mohegan Sun Arena

• Allyn Miller, owner of Double M Ranch Horse Drawn Carriage Rides, gives families a horse-and-carriage ride down Main Street in Old Wethersfield on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. The town of Wethersfield is offering free rides, weather permitting, every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. through Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025. Rides meet in front of First Church in Old Wethersfield on Fridays and Saturdays and at the Wethersfield Green on Sundays. Visit www.wethersfieldct.gov for updates. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

  PHOTOS: Seasonal fun in CT with free carriage rides and ice skating

• Shoppers enter Garage after waiting in line at Westfarms Mall early Friday morning in search of Black Friday deals on Nov. 28, 2025. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

  PHOTOS: Shoppers hunt Black Friday deals at CT mall

• Lourdes Hernandez helps her daughter, Larissa Hernandez, both of Willimantic, pick out food during Eastern Connecticut State University’s 19th annual Day of Giving at Hurley Dining Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

  PHOTOS: ECSU’s annual Day of Giving

• Hartford Business Improvement District ambassadors Lou Hemmingway, left, and Rubin Santos wrap garland around a light pole on Pratt Street on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, in downtown Hartford. The district handed out Santa hats and candy canes as ambassadors decorated light poles on Pratt, Asylum and Allyn streets. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

  PHOTOS: Pratt Street gets festive

• Morley School students use a wagon to carry food through Blue Back Square on their way to West Hartford Town Hall during the 31st annual Morley School Red Wagon Food Drive on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. All donated food will go to the West Hartford Food Pantry. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

  PHOTOS: Red wagons roll again in CT annual food drive

• Jamell Maddox, 15, holds his new puppy, Wish, a 2-month-old Pomeranian, as he sits with his sister, Melody Greene, 9, both of Hamden, at Liberty Bank’s headquarters in Middletown on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, during Maddox’s Make-A-Wish Connecticut experience. Maddox is one of 20 recipients whose wishes are being granted during Liberty Bank’s 200th anniversary celebration, which includes a 200,000ドル donation to Make-A-Wish Connecticut. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

  PHOTOS: CT teen gets his dream dog

• Don Osmond, a member of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, waters mums in preparation for the annual Pumpkin Festival in Hebron on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. The festival runs Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at the church. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

  PHOTOS: Connecticut in October

• Former Bristol Mayor Ellen Zoppo-Sassu celebrates at Democratic headquarters after winning the seat back from Republican Mayor Jeffrey Caggiano on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

  PHOTOS: Election Day in Connecticut

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• US stocks rise after the Fed cuts rates and hopes build for more

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• Opinion: Maybe human intelligence isn’t an evolutionary triumph after all

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• NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade

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• Ricki Lake thought everything was lost in Palisades fire. Until a stranger found her holiday miracle

• US playwright Jeremy O. Harris released 3 weeks after arrest in Japan for alleged drug smuggling

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