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A man has been arrested in connection to a bank robbery in Bridgeport on Thursday afternoon. Dispatchers received a panic alarm from the TD Bank on Lafayette Boulevard around 4:20 p.m. and later learned there had been an armed robbery at the bank. Officers responded to the bank, obtained a description of the suspect and let other police know he&#82...

Every year on Memorial Day Weekend, people come out to the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown to honor those who gave their lives for our country. “Everybody that didn’t come back, just thank you. Just thank you,” said Joel Cabral, of Newington. Cabral served in the Connecticut National Guard for seven years and says he regular...

Armed citizen patrols could be coming to New Haven. The group that created similar patrols in Hartford is looking at training citizens in the Elm City. “What we’re telling people is this. Legal armed carry is protected by the Constitution.” Activist Cornell Lewis leads the Self Defense Brigade, a group training citizens to do armed neighborhood pat...

Memorial Day Weekend is here! There is still time to enjoy the warm weather and there are some chances for rain as the weekend continues. Temperatures were in the low to mid 80s for inland Connecticut with 70s for the shoreline on Saturday. There is the chance for a spot shower on Sunday with temperatures returning to the 80s for…

A Bradley International Airport employee was charged Friday after State Police say he sexually assaulted one of his co-workers. Investigators said a female employee at Bradley told her supervisor that fellow employee, Ryan Gordon of East Hartford, touched her in, what was described as, a sexual nature and when she pulled away and returned to her wo...

Authorities have taken four juveniles that were involved in an alleged attempted abduction that occurred in Wilton Friday evening into custody. According to Ridgefield Police, officers were called to Route 33 around 5:15 to help Wilton Police out with pursuing a vehicle that was involved in the incident. Investigators later learned that the alleged...

Two people were taken to the hospital following a collision Friday evening in Seymour. It happened around 5:45 on Derby Avenue near Broad Street. Police say a car that was heading up the roadway was turning left onto Emery Street when it cut off an oncoming motorcycle. The motorcyclist was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital for his injuries. The ex...

A popular chicken wing restaurant chain is expanding their footprint here in Connecticut. Texas-based Wingstop says they plan on opening two new locations here in Connecticut within the next year, one in Bristol and the other in Wethersfield. According to a company spokesperson, the first location is expected to open sometime in either the Fall or ...

Fire officials in Danbury are looking into what sparked a massive garage fire Friday morning. The flames broke out at a home Clapboard Ridge Road around 7. The fire department said crews had the fire at the attached garage under control in about fifteen minutes. One person was taken to the hospital as a result of the fire for treatment…...

On Friday the Greater Hartford Arts Council kicked off its summer events alongside artists, musicians and local elected officials. “Every weekend there’s something happening that’s a large public event and even smaller events though our organization,” said the CEO of the council Dr. Shelley Best. The council created Hartford Creates, which received...

Starting July 1, a new state law will let cities and towns install cameras meant to catch vehicles that violate local noise ordinances. Rep. Bobby Gibson, (D-Bloomfield) said he pushed for the change after a constituent complained to him about noisy cars in her neighborhood. “As I was going along, more and more people were coming to me and saying&#...

Millions are heading out on the roads for their Memorial Day Weekend plans. AAA estimates that travel this year will be 4% higher than last year, with 43.8 million people driving 50 miles or more from home from Thursday to Sunday. “We’re going to Cape Cod for a couple days, then we’re heading to Maine,” said Jill Klein of North…

Friday marked five years since Jennifer Farber Dulos disappeared. She was last seen on May 24, 2019 after dropping her five kids off at school in New Canaan. Her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, was charged with her murder, but died by suicide before he ever went to trial. Investigators maintain the case is still active and even five years later&#82...

A bear was put down after it got into a house in Simsbury Friday afternoon and ransacked it looking for food. Simsbury police responded to the home on Old Canal Way a little before 1 p.m. after getting a call from the homeowner that the bear was inside. No one was in the house at the time. The homeowner told…