Live coverage: Senate debate

Democratic Senate candidates Chris Murphy and Susan Bysiewicz, who debated earlier this month in a Bridgeport forum co-sponsored by Hearst Connecticut Media Group, are back at it tonight in a debate

Esty focus of negative attacks

Democratic congressional candidate and former state Rep.  Elizabeth Esty has been the subject of several attacks in recent days with less than three weeks to go before the Aug. 14 primary. In a mailer

New Roberti ad targets Donovan scandal, takes swipe at Esty

Democrat Dan Roberti, who is competing with endorsed candidate House Speaker Chris Donovan, D-Meriden, and ex-state Rep. Elizabeth Esty in a primary in the 5th Congressional District, today released

Report: More arrests coming in Donovan probe

With the Democratic and Republican primaries less than three weeks away in the 5th Congressional district, the campaign of former House Speaker Chris Donovan could be in for another rocky stretch.

Shays to air first TV ad

Chris Shays, who’s been on the wrong end of a massive spending disparity in the GOP Senate primary, is finally hitting the air waves with a TV ad. Shays, a former congressman from the 4th district, 

Himes goes Clooney

From the Michael Bloomberg school of healthy living, Jim Himes checks in at No. 16 on The Hill newspaper’s list of the 50 most beautiful people on Capitol Hill. You probably won’t run into the

Bysiewicz says she’ll support Murphy if he wins primary

The New Haven Register over the weekend reported that ex-U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, who is challenging former wrestling executive Linda McMahon for the GOP nomination to run for U.S. Senate, will not

Murphy asks TV stations to yank Bysiewicz’s Wall St. ad

In the wake of several news reports last week about inaccuracies in Susan Bysiewicz’s latest campaign ad attacking U.S. Senate rival Chris Murphy, the Murphy campaign, through its attorneys, has