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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 Gilberto 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...

Norwalk Public Schools will be closed on Friday as the city deals with major traffic issues due to the prolonged closure of Interstate 95 after a fiery crash Thusday morning. The crash between a tractor-trailer, a fuel truck, and a passenger vehicle happened in the southbound lanes around 5:30 a.m. Thursday. The fuel truck caught fire under the Fai...

Hartford Yard Goats will showcase the “greatest of all time” local beers, seltzers and spirits this October at G.O.A.T. Brew Fest. Tickets are on sale now for the event, which will be held on Oct. 5 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Dunkin’ Park in Hartford. It will feature more than 50 local vendors, as well as lawn games and…

Breeze Airways announced flights to new destinations – and some special deals – today. Inaugural nonstop flights from Bradley International Airport to Cincinnati and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina took off today. Passengers can get a $49 one-way deal to either destination if they purchase tickets by May 7 and travel by June 13. In additio...

Norwalk police are asking people to be patient during the Interstate 95 closure, which has led to several additional road closures. The highway has been closed since around 5:30 a.m. Thursday when two trucks and a car collided in a fiery crash on I-95 under the Fairfield Avenue overpass. I-95 North is closed between exits 14 and 15 and I-95…...

A man wanted for murder in Norwich was returned to Connecticut Thursday to face charges. Brandon Foster was extradicted from North Carolina, according to police. Foster shot and killed 66-year-old Edward McIntyre in a home on Laurel Hill Drive in June 2020, police said. He was on the run until January 18, 2024, when he was captured in Charlotte, No...