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Former Hartford police officer Jill Kidik was in court Thursday asking for a criminal protection order against the woman who attacked her on the job. In 2018, Chevoughn Augustin stabbed Kidik in the throat, striking her trachea, while she was responding to a routine call. Augustin was found not guilty by reason of mental disease in 2021. Once that ...

Many people in Connecticut put in their orders for discounted items during Amazon’s Prime Day sales on Tuesday and Wednesday. As these items and many other online holiday purchases are delivered ‘porch pirates’ also known as packages thieves could be a problem for anyone not home when their orders arrive. New Haven Police Public Information Officer...

The cleanup is just beginning for those impacted by Hurricane Milton, and we checked in Thursday with Connecticut natives who now live in Florida. Some chose to ride out the storm inside their homes, others evacuated earlier in the week. “This one was definitely no joke,” said Kristin Guillemette, of Winter Garden. “There were some wind gusts up ov...

The 2024 report card for Long Island Sound is out and experts say taking the long-term view, this one is fridge worthy. The Sound scored a clean bill of health in four of the five main basins along the Sound, and even those close to the water on a brisk October Thursday noticed a difference. “Originally from Western Mass and…

The family of 6-year-old Jathan Escobar is calling for justice after he was brutally beaten with a baseball bat in Bridgeport last month and died days later. They gathered outside a Bridgeport courthouse Thursday morning all wearing matching sweaters honoring the life taken too soon.  They were there for the court appearance of Abdulrahim Sula...

Long before Ethel Kennedy became a matriarch to one the most powerful political dynasties in American history she was a little girl who grew up in Connecticut. The world knew Ethel Skakel Kennedy as the wife of U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy, but her own story started on April 11, 1928, when&#...

Search and rescue teams are at Cockaponset State Forest on Thursday where they are looking for an 81-year-old Haddam man who has been missing since Sunday. The missing man, Normand Manning, has white hair and hazel eyes and he wears glasses. He is 5 feet 8 and weighs 180 pounds. When he was last seen, he was wearing a white…

2nd STREET, a second-hand clothing shop, is opening at The Shops at Yale in New Haven. The company was founded in Japan in 1996 and the first U.S. store opened in Los Angeles in 2018. This will be the resale fashion shop’s first Connecticut location. The two-floor store will be located at 272 Elm St. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be…

A crane mounted to a truck struck a bridge on Interstate 91 North in Enfield Thursday morning, taking down a highway sign, according to state police. The crane struck the Route 190 overpass just prior to Exit 47W around 9:15 a.m. The sign came down and hit another vehicle, state police said. There were no injuries. The collision damaged metal&#8230...

One person is in critical condition after two scooters collided in New London on Wednesday morning, according to police. The other scooter operator was also hurt and his injuries are not life-threatening. Police said officers and firefighters responded to the entrance of the Cedar Grove Cemetery just before 11 a.m. on Wednesday after receiving a re...

Milford police have arrested a man who is accused of robbing a spa employee at knifepoint. Police said they responded to Lynn Spa at 10:25 a.m. on Sunday to investigate a robbery at knifepoint and the victim said a customer pulled a knife on her and demanded the employee’s phone, money and clothing. The Detective Bureau responded and assumed......

A 47-year-old Madison man was killed when he was struck by a driver who was going the wrong way on Interstate 95 in Westbrook on Wednesday night, according to state police. Mark A. Palumbo Jr. was driving a 2014 Ford Mustang, heading south on I-95 South between exits 66 and 65 just after 8 p.m. when he was struck by…

Dozens of flights between Connecticut and Florida are canceled Thursday because of Hurricane Milton. Officials from Bradley Airport said Thursday morning that 24 departures and arrivals have been canceled between BDL and Florida. They urge anyone who plans on traveling in the coming days to the affected areas to contact their airline for the status...

U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes and Republican George Logan made their case to voters during a contentious debate Wednesday in Waterbury.   Hayes, (D- CT 5th District) said she’s done enough to deserve a fourth term in Congress, while Logan argued the district should elect a Republican for the first time since 2006.   The two candidates ran a tigh...