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Glastonbury police have arrested four suspects after an investigation into an armed robbery and several burglaries early on Feb. 4. Police have been investigating a burglary to the Shell gas station at 2088 Hebron Ave., several vehicle burglaries at homes, the theft of a motor vehicle stolen from a residence and an armed robbery at the Mobil gas st...

Ledyard police have charged two women with animal cruelty after seizing two dogs, four cats, a rabbit, a tortoise and a hedgehog last month. Police said one of the women called Ledyard Animal Control Officers on the morning of April 6, demanding they come and take possession of “abandoned animals.” When animal control officers arrived, they found t...

Bristol police have arrested a suspect who is accused of shooting at a driver, getting into another person’s car and then assaulting police officers who were taking him into custody.   Police said the investigation started when they received several calls reporting a shooting on Stevens Street on Thursday. One caller said a person in a dark se...

Demolition began Friday on an Interstate 95 overpass in Norwalk that was damaged in a fiery crash along I-95 on Thursday morning. Both sides of the highway have been closed since the crash happened and are expected to remain closed until at least Monday morning. I-95 has been closed since about 5:30 a.m. Thursday after a crash involving a tractor-t...

While parts of I-95 remain closed Thursday night after a fiery accident in Norwalk, authorities in Danbury responded to a serious crash on I-84 in Danbury. Police, firefighters and EMS crews responded to the area of exit 2 westbound at around 6:15 p.m. They discovered a SUV that had rear-ended a tractor-trailer. Two of the three occupants inside th...

A pilot has died after a small plane heading to Connecticut crashed into a residential neighborhood in a Georgia city. The plane crashed on Thursday a little more than a half mile (1 kilometer) from Daniel Field, a general aviation airport in Augusta. Augusta University told local news outlets that the pilot was Jason McKenzie, the associate direct...

Connecticut State Police are now offering a $50,000 reward to help solve the shooting death of a man in West Haven back in 2020. The family and investigators hope it will help close this case and bring the family peace after four years of pain. “It has been four years of what we’ve been going through,” Mavis Stennett, stepmother o...

Students at the University of Connecticut aren’t backing down from their demands as the Israel-Hamas war continues. Protestors say they made sure there was no one outside the university disrupting their message. Calls for divestment continued at UConn Thursday. A student group says the university still needs to divest from companies connected to Is...

Nearly a dozen residents were displaced and a person was taken to the hospital after a fire in a New Haven apartment complex on Thursday night. Firefighters responded to an apartment complex on Smith Avenue around 7 p.m. They say the fire started on the second floor and spread to the third floor. Firefighters rescued an elderly woman, along with&#8...

Willimantic Police arrested a man yesterday for having illegal firearms in his vehicle and assaulting a police officer when they pulled him over. An officer first noticed the man driving a vehicle with an illegal license plate on West Main Street and attempted to pull him over. The vehicle continued and eventually pulled over on Capitol Drive near ...

A man has died after being hit by a car while riding a bicycle in Hartford on Thursday night and police have arrested a suspect. Police said they were called to the area of Hamilton Street and Francis Avenue for a reported hit-and-run crash just before 7 p.m. Responding officers found 55-year-old Gilbert Davila, of Hartford, suffering from serious ...

Spring brings all kinds of delights, and one of them is coming from the East Hampton Public Library. The library is spreading “pawsitivity” this month, with a new program called “May We See Your Dog.” “We are forgiving the fee for one lost damaged item per patron, in exchange for a dog photo,” Christine Cachuela, East Hampton Public Library Directo...

At the Capitol today, House Speaker Matt Ritter and Senator Doug McCrory joined the Mayor of Hartford Arunan Arulampalam to announce $10.5 million in funding to prevent layoffs at Hartford Public Schools. “This is the beginning,” said Arulampalam. “It certainly doesn’t solve everything in Hartford Public Schools, but this is a commitment to working...