Helena Greenleaf of Thompson, Connecticut, won a $1 million-dollar prize from a "$2,500,000 Merry & Bright" lottery ticket purchased in Auburn, Massachusetts.

A woman from Connecticut who won $1 million playing the lottery in Massachusetts will use her prize for a rich meal. Helena Greenleaf, of Thompson, Conn. won $1 million from the “ $2,500,000 Merry & Bright ” scratch ticket game by the Massachusetts State Lottery. The game costs $10 per ticket to play.

Five Massachusetts college students made their first appearances in court Thursday, accused of plotting to lure a man through a dating app into visiting campus last fall and then seizing him as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on TikTok.

In fact, Connecticut became a state on Jan. 9, 1788 - 237 years ago today. However, the state's history extends back much before that. To celebrate the state's official birthday, here's a look back at Connecticut's history, from its very first settlements up until its statehood.

Swanston, a graduate of Hotchkiss and UConn who sold his company for nine figures in 2020, joined CT Mirror for 'This Could Work.'

SouthCoast Wind is moving forward on other fronts. On Dec. 20, the Biden administration announced that the proposal had received approval from the federal government, making it the 11 th offshore wind project to get the green light from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

A former Boston doctor, who is accused in a class action lawsuit of sexually assaulting more than 200 patients, has now been indicted on two counts of rape.

A former New Britain man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Wednesday for trafficking cocaine into Connecticut and Massachusetts from Puerto Rico. Ramon Soto, 57, of the Bronx, New York faced sentencing in federal court in Bridgeport where a judge ordered that his prison term be followed by four years of supervised release,

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Connecticut had one of the highest work-from-home rates among neighboring states and ranked 22nd among all states.

Massachusetts was followed by Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska and New Hampshire to round out the Top 5 best states for families. New Mexico was at the bottom, joined by Mississippi, West Virginia, Nevada and Oklahoma.

Joaquin Smith, an 18-year-old West Haven native, is part of a group of students at a Massachusetts college charged in a "catch a predator" style plot.

A person’s death on board an Air France plane to Boston from Paris was under investigation on Tuesday evening, Massachusetts State Police said. There were few details available about the person’s death;