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Two people were taken to the hospital with injuries following a head-on crash in Vernon Friday night. Fire officials responded to Vernon Avenue in the area of High Street for a two-car accident around 5:30 p.m. Both cars sustained heavy front-end damage and two people were transported to the hospital with injuries. The extent is unknown at this tim...

Several ducklings trapped in a storm drain in Cromwell were rescued with the help of authorities. Cromwell Animal Control, police and firefighters all worked together to save six baby Mallard ducks. All of the ducklings were brought to safety and reunited with their anxiously awaiting mom.

A man accused of stealing over $600 worth of meat and seafood from a grocery store in Southbury has been arrested. The police department said they responded to a theft at Shop Rite on Main Street South Friday afternoon. Officers arrested the alleged thief, who was a passenger in a vehicle trying to drive away from the area. The stolen…...

A new multi-year agreement between the state and SEIU 1199 NE will result in significant wage increases for group home workers in Connecticut, according to Gov. Ned Lamont’s office. The governor said his administration has reached a three-year agreement with SEIU 1199 NE, which will provide wage increases for direct care workers in the state&...

Lawmakers are once again considering giving striking workers unemployment compensation as several unions around the state work to resolve contract disputes. The bill would allow workers to recover some money for lost wages after a strike reaches 14 days, a benefit they said would help restore balance during negotiations. “It won’t level the playing...

Senate Bill 1436 has caused alarm in the Freedom of Information, or FOI, community. It has an exemption to our state’s FOI Act that would forbid releasing complaints against a police or correction officer until they’re “investigated and adjudicated by the proper legal authority.” The Police Officers Association of Connecticut said at a hearing on t...

Connecticut’s tourism season is kicking off this Memorial Day weekend, but restaurants are asking for more support from the state as the governor works on the budget. The Connecticut Restaurant Association is asking the state for $20 million committed to tourism marketing, opposed to the $4.5 million invested currently. “We’ve done an i...

An Ellington man was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison Friday for the overdose death of his friend in 2023. Charles Lewis plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter, admitting to selling Nick Tshonas, 24, a lethal batch of fentanyl while Tshonas was visiting home from his sober living facility. Tshonas was 90 days sober when he relapsed and had rece...

A Plainfield woman has been arrested for allegedly abusing a person with autism in her care, police said. The Plainfield Police Department said they received a complaint about alleged abuse on April 9. Lisa Neal, 59, is accused of denying bathroom access to a person in her care, leading them to urinate in a trash can, police said. She then…...

A sad story in Bethlehem where two beloved family goats were killed by a bear while a family was away. “This is Milo and this is Otis,” Becky Zielinski said, showing us photos of their family pets. The pair were killed by a bear a few weeks ago, part of a string of livestock and bear interactions in the town…

Sunday will mark five years since George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis. And for his uncle and others the work to turn their grief into action continues today. “Continued disarray, dysfunction, continued death, oppression. We’ve seen quite a bit of that in the last five years. Has laws changed? Yeah. But will we ever have...

Pratt & Whitney has presented striking machinists a new contract offer, according to the company. More than 3,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union have been on strike at Pratt & Whitney’s East Hartford and Middletown facilities since May 5. Both sides returned to the table to negotiate...

A person approached New Britain High School with a bladed weapon on Friday afternoon and was taken into custody, according to the school officials. The person never got into the school, and no one was injured, the superintendent said. Supt. Tony Gasper, the superintendent of the Consolidated School District of New Britain, sent a letter to the...

Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial start to summer, and for many in New England, the green light to plant. At Moscarillo’s on Albany Avenue in West Hartford, the staff have been preparing for this weekend. “This whole month we kind of call May mayhem,” said Marissa Agostini, the greenhouse manager at Moscarillo’s. They are expecting a lot of......