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The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford held a grand opening for its newly rebuilt creative complex on Tuesday, more than two years after a fire destroyed the original building. “Our community rallied to our sides and today I stand before you filled with gratitude,” said Jimmy Canton, CEO of the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. The…...

Police are investigating a suspicious death after a man was found dead inside his garage with serious injuries in Wilton. Officers were called to a home in town Tuesday afternoon after a person reported that their neighbor appeared to be dead. Responding officers found a man in the detached garage of his home. He wasn’t breathing and appeared...

Several American Red Cross volunteers from Connecticut are responding to California to help with storm relief efforts. Seven volunteers from Red Cross Connecticut and Rhode Island Region are assisting with efforts to provide safe refuge, nourishing meals, relief supplies and emotional support to residents facing devastation. This week’s weath...

The Department of Children and Families (DCF) told NBC Connecticut that they recently paid a visit to several Derby children that died in a New York car crash. DCF Commissioner Vanessa Dorantes said the department was asked by New York Child Protective Services to perform a “courtesy visit” to interview the children based on an alleged ...

Wethersfield police are investigating a carjacking at a senior living facility after a man who said he had a gun pushed an elderly woman out of her car when she refused to drive him home and drove off in her car, police said. Police responded to Executive Square Apartments at 100 Executive Square just after 2 p.m. Monday and the…

Hamden police have arrested the driver of a vehicle involved in a crash that killed a motorcycle operator last June. The crash happened around 7 p.m. on June 25, 2022 in the area of Dixwell Avenue and Foch Street. The motorcyclist, 38-year-old Jamar Crenshaw, of New Haven, was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. After an extensive...

Police are investigating a suspicious death in Stamford. Officers responded to a report of a body found in Boccuzzi Park on Southfield Avenue just before 5 p.m. Monday, according to police. The park was closed off to the public as police began their investigation. The victim was identified as 21-year-old Jaquan Tahir Saez, of Stamford. Police said ...

New Haven police chief Karl Jacobson is recommending that four police officers who were charged after a man who was in police custody was severely injured while in a prisoner van in June be terminated. The other officer who was charged retired from the department earlier this year. Randy Cox was injured on June 19 while in a police transport…...

Police have identified the man who was shot and killed at an apartment building in Waterbury on Sunday night. Officers were called to a multi-family apartment building on Hill Street around 8:45 p.m. after getting a report of a gunshot victim. When police arrived, they said they found 37-year-old John Rosario, of Waterbury, with a gunshot wound. He...

The UConn men’s basketball team is on the way to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 2014. The team got on a bus Tuesday morning and started the journey to Las Vegas, where the Huskies will take on Arkansas Thursday night. UConn’s journey to the Sweet Sixteen comes after defeating Iona, 87 to 63, then defeating St. Mary’s,…

A new pilot program will allow CT Transit and CT Fastrak customers to buy bus passes on their smartphones starting in April. The Connecticut Department of Transportation is launching the program in partnership with Token Transit. It will allow customers to buy two-hour adult, senior/disabled and youth bus passes for all local CT Transit and CT Fast...

The Hartford Yard Goats season is almost here and the ballpark has a new coffee cup and a new name. Dunkin’ Donuts Park is now Dunkin’ Park. In January, the Dunkin’ Donuts Park sign and the giant coffee cup that was above left field were taken down and General Manager Mike Abrahamson said the team was working with Dunkin’ to...

Retired Hartford Police Chief Ronald Loranger has died at the age of 83, Hartford police said. Loranger served as chief of police from 1989 until his retirement in 1993. Loranger was born in Maine, grew up in Hartford and graduated from Bulkeley High School. He was a U.S. Army veteran. Loranger joined the Hartford police department in 1964 as a&#82...