The FBI and IRS recorded approximately 1,400 phone conversations from a wiretap they installed in a Shelton cell phone used by Mayor Mark A. Lauretti over a two-month period from early May to early July 2005.

Firefighters from Derby and Shelton responded to the report of a structure fire at 84 Factory St.

A federal prosecutor today accused Shelton Mayor Mark A. Lauretti of being a co-conspirator in what became a successful attempt to get the city's Planning and Zoning Commission to approve James Botti 's development at 828 Bridgeport Ave.

The city's annual Fourth of July fireworks show may fall victim to the ongoing recession unless enough money can be raised to fund the event.

If the education budget Mayor Mark A. Lauretti has proposed for the next fiscal year becomes reality, widespread layoffs districtwide can be expected, school officials warned this week.

Mike Wood is doing the first reading and signing for his new novel, "Alchemy," at the Plumb Memorial Library in Shelton on Thursday at 7 p.m. The Shelton writer takes the reader back to a Masschusetts beach town in the summer of 1984 in a satiric style that has already brought Wood comparisons with Carl Hiaasen 's love/hate letters to Florida.

Newtown Savings Bank last year exceeded its expectations in volunteerism. In one year, the bank had met its three-year goal of attaining 100-percent employee participation in its NSBCare volunteer program begun in January 2009.

Bill Hopkins, owner of Hopkins Vineyard stands inside a barn that once housed cows and now stores wine in Warren, Conn.

The daughter of Mayor Mark A. Lauretti is scheduled for arraignment Friday in Bridgeport Superior Court on a drunk driving charge, roughly a month after she was involved in a single car crash in Monroe.

From now until the end of May we are following four Connecticut residents on their quest to lose weight.

A former state prosecutor, jailed in 2008 for stealing more than $50,000 intended for crime victims and charities, has agreed to pay a $2,000 fine to settle a complaint against him by the Office of State Ethics.

A developer paid tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti - including money for home repairs - to win approval for his plan to build two restaurants and bank, a federal prosecutor said Monday at the start of the developer's corruption trial.

For more than four decades, Barbara Murzin has lived on Longview Road next to what was once the Klapik Farm.

A year of speculations, expectations and rumors will evaporate into the reality of what the FBI and IRS did uncover in their six-year investigation into alleged municipal corruption in Shelton when the trial of developer James Botti begins Monday.

Last week, the New Canaan Republican Town Committee endorsed Dan Debicella of Shelton in the race to challenge Congressman Jim Himes.