Investigations

There has been progress involving a cutting edge 911 technology introduced in our state three years ago that could make it easier to save lives. Connecticut first began modernizing emergency communications with text to 911. Since then, state communications experts introduced another advancement called “RapidSOS” that makes it easier for dispatch an...

A man charged in the fatal hit-and-run of a well-known high school basketball coach went before a judge for the first time this week. The Hartford Police Fugitive Task Force arrested 41-year-old Jaimuse Workman in connection with the March 31 crash that took the life of A.I. Prince Tech coach Kendall May. May’s brother attended the hearing and said...

“It’s kind of tough waiting around when you’re trying to find a good doctor. And in the long run, it’s something you probably could have stayed at home and just found out yourself,” said Marian Whitney of North Haven. You or someone you know may be experiencing seemingly longer than normal wait times to see your doctors – and...

An investigation into alleged sexual misconduct did not result in discipline.

The recent case of a bear cub in Litchfield is drawing attention to a little-known policy in the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) regarding orphaned cubs. “It’s a death sentence for them,” said Annie Hornish, state director for the Connecticut branch of the Humane Society of the United States. The policy classifies cubs youn...

ChatGPT has been all the buzz in the tech world. The software is a type of artificial intelligence, or AI, that can have human-like conversations, write term papers and more. ChatGPT is powered by algorithms – a set of rules or instructions – that are the basic building blocks of artificial intelligence, and those algorithms are used by...

It is a scene that’s become too familiar in our state – people mourning a pedestrian that police say was killed in a hit-and-run. Earlier this month, someone we spoke with at a vigil said of a hit-and-run victim, “We’re all just so, we’re just broke, heartbroken. You know, we lost somebody very close and special to us.” Data...

A former prep school student won’t get prison time in connection with a series of charges involving sending, receiving and recording images of young men – including classmates. The former Avon Old Farms star athlete and student’s sentence does include a decade-long consequence though. John Zadrozny, 20, will be on Connecticut’s sex offender r...

Hard data has shown many electric customers are mad, and they’re not going to take it anymore. We’re talking about “standard electric supply rates” offered by our state’s major utilities that skyrocketed this winter to rates between 22 to 24 cents per kilowatt hour. It has prompted tens of thousands of customers to give third-party electric supplie...

The Burdick family’s roots run deep in Brookfield. Generations of them are buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery with headstones dating back to the 1800s. “It’s been our family cemetery forever. I mean, we grew up knowing that we were going to be buried there,” said Pam Corsinelli, whose father Keith Burdick died on April 6 at age 92. Keith Burdick&...

One of the Hartford Yard Goats’ alternate identities has got a lot of people talking. The team will take the field as the Hartford Bouncing Pickles on May 17. To find out the origins of the name, we have to go back to 1948. An article in the Hartford Courant detailed the arrest of two pickle packers accused of conspiring…

There is support and criticism for a bill this legislative session that would bring changes to how our state oversees people in Connecticut found not guilty by reason of insanity. This involves Connecticut’s Psychiatric Security Review Board, which has been in existence since 1985. For years, NBC Connecticut Investigates has broken stories about Wh...

Keeping track of your tech – how does a Connecticut state agency lose track of more than 100 laptops and tablets in a relatively short period of time? It apparently has been a challenge for the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF), which recently reported a significant loss. This was revealed by the DCF in a monthly loss repo...

Dozens of passengers aboard an Avelo Airlines flight bound for New Haven got diverted to Bradley Airport. The question is – did people on the plane get assistance to get back to New Haven? We recently brought you an in-depth report on customer complaints about Avelo’s communication when planes are diverted. The diversion happened around 1:30 ...

A newly released report from the Department of Veterans Affairs shows that back in 2017, the agency was aware of racial disparities in how PTSD treatment benefits were awarded among veterans. The report was discovered as part of an ongoing joint investigation among NBC stations across the country, report “American Vets: Benefits, Race in Ineq...

The week of March 13, 2023, journalists the world over have been celebrating Sunshine Week, promoting access to public information, and records. Ironically, our NBC CT Investigates team ran into a surprising roadblock during Sunshine Week, that has raised transparency questions about a quasi-public agency that makes multi-million-dollar decisions a...