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On Saturday, Love Hartford Week kicked off at Colt Park. This is the fourth year the weeklong initiative to clean up and beautify the city has happened. “There are so many people in this community who care about their city,” said KNOX executive director Patrick Doyle. “Who care about their neighborhoods, who care about their parks and public spaces...

Police have identified the man who was found dead after a house fire in Bloomfield last week and detectives are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the fire. Firefighters and police responded to the home on Ivory Road around 2:30 p.m. Friday and firefighters contained the fire to an upstairs bathroom. After the fire was extinguished, How...

Someone caused $1 million worth of damage to several construction vehicles and work vehicles that were set on fire or vandalized off Interstate 84 in Farmington and state police are trying to figure out who did it. State police said Hammonasset Construction contacted them around 10:46 a.m. Monday to report that several vehicles that were parked in ...

A new report indicates decades of anti-tobacco message appears to be getting through. Nationwide, the number of young people using e-cigarettes dropped by half a million over the last year, according to the National Youth Tobacco Survey. In Connecticut, 11.5 percent of high school students reported vaping in the last 30 days, according to a su...

Three veterans whose cremains went unclaimed will be honored with a military ceremony on Wednesday at the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown. PFC Mario Nello DeVito, U.S. Army 1945-47, is one of the three veterans to be honored. He died in Bristol in 2000 at the age of 72. PVT James Dickinson, U.S. Army 1941-43, died in West Haven in…...

A man who is accused of luring a girl who was under the age of 13 into his pickup, kidnapping her and sexually assaulting her in Waterbury is also accused of sexually assaulting a child in New Haven 10 years ago, according to New Haven police. New Haven police said they started an investigation in April into sexual assaults around…

Waterbury police have arrested a man who is accused of luring a girl who was under the age of 13 into his pickup, kidnapping her and sexually assaulting her. Police said they responded to the area of Fulton Park around 7 p.m. on Wednesday and determined that the girl had been lured into a pickup truck driven by a man….

A motorcyclist has serious injuries after a crash on Route 159 in Suffield on Tuesday morning. Police responded to Route 159 around 7 a.m. for a report of a crash. Investigators said a motorcyclist was traveling south on Route 159 while a car was traveling north in the same area. The car turned left while trying to pull into a…

A 14-year-old has died after a crash in Mystic early Monday morning that sent four teens to the hospital, according to police. Groton police responded to Fishtown Road at 1:21 a.m. after receiving an iPhone Crash Detection call and found four teens with serious injuries. They said the vehicle the teens were in, a 2012 Toyota 4Runner, went off the&#...

A bicyclist was taken to the hospital to be treated for what appeared to be critical injuries after a hit-and-run in Bridgeport on Monday night. Dispatchers received multiple calls about a pedestrian being hit by an evading vehicle at the intersection of Chopsey Hill Road and the entrance to Route 8/25 north around 10:30 p.m. Emergency crews respon...

South Windsor police have arrested a man who is accused of approaching a girl after she got off the school bus in August and asking her if she wanted to see his genitals. Police said the man, a 35-year-old resident of Medway, Massachusetts, approached the girl on Aug. 30. He was gone by the time police arrived, but authorities identified…...

A problem with heat has closed a high school in Wallingford on Tuesday. In a message sent to parents, the district said Lyman Hall High School is closed for the day due to a lack of heat. Temperatures overnight were in the 30s and lower 40s. The district did not say if the school would be open on Wednesday.

Crews rescued two fishermen and a dog from an overturned boat near Lighthouse Park in New Haven on Monday. Firefighters responded to the park for a report of a 15-foot fishing boat that had overturned. Two people were reportedly stranded on the rocks with their dog. According to fire officials, firefighters in cold water suits used rope to rescue b...