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A New Milford man has been arrested after allegedly killing his mother and calling authorities to report the crime, police said. The police department said they received a call from 34-year-old Eric Meagan at about 8:25 a.m. Monday. He told officers that he had just killed his mother in the vicinity of the Still River near Harrybrooke Park on Still...

A Pride month video played in a Southington middle school classroom has prompted an apology from the school’s principal. That apology itself has one LGBTQ family very upset. The video was played at Southington’s John F. Kennedy Middle School. When an apology for showing it was sent home, Ashley Rouleau says she was “devastated.”  Rouleau has been m...

Bryan Calle’s parents are praying for a miracle. “It was hard to see my son in that state,” Segundo Calle said in Spanish.  Segundo and Rosa Called arrived from Ecuador at JFK International Airport on Sunday and immediately traveled to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, where their 17-year-old son is in a medically induced coma.  “It ...

A poor air quality alert is in effect for Connecticut Tuesday due to smoke from the Canadian wildfires. Smoke started filtering back into the state overnight. The alert is also in effect for Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said fine particulate matter levels are expected ...

Connecticut State Police have arrested multiple people believed to be responsible for organizing and promoting illegal street racing events across the state. Following a months-long investigation, police and the FBI arrested three people on Sunday. Their vehicles were also seized as a part of the investigation. Officers said they saw a car drag rac...

A man has been arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting multiple minors and giving them drugs in New Milford, police said. Detectives said they were notified by a nearby police department that three minors had received illegal narcotics and were sexually assaulted by 30-year-old Luis David Torrez. The police department said they were not...

Interstate 395 North was closed in Norwich after a crash, but traffic is getting by again. The crash is between exits 11 and 13A and the highway is congested between exits 9 and 11, according to CTRoads.org.

Several loose photos were found at Bradley Airport and state police are trying to figure out who they belong to. State police Troop H in Hartford said troopers were patrolling parking spaces at Bradley Airport around 8:30 p.m. Sunday when someone came up to them with several loose photos that they had found. Police said they are hoping to get&#8230...

Two men helped a woman change a tire, but then they stole her purse, police said. Now investigators are looking for them. The men initially came to the woman’s aid and changed a flat tire at the Exxon gas station at 452 Westport Ave. in Norwalk around 3 p.m. on May 24, police said. But then they took her purse…

Police have arrested the person they say was driving a pickup truck that hit and killed Stonington High School’s custodian as he rode his bike in March. The crash happened on the night of March 6 on South Broad Street in the Pawcatuck section of Stonington. Gary Piven was riding his bike along the road when he was hit by…

The EPA, along with the mayor of Waterbury and other elected officials came together Monday to talk more about how millions of dollars of grant moment for the state will go toward remodeling unused and potentially polluted plots of land across the state. The goal is to take unused fields and old mills make them into an economic engine for…...

Six of the eight construction workers who were hospitalized after a building they were working on in New Haven partially collapsed Friday afternoon have been released from the hospital. The two people who remain hospitalized are in fair condition, according to officials. New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker said one of the people who is still in the hosp...

A man has died after a crash in Southington Monday morning, the day before what would have been his 80th birthday. Officers responded to the area of 133 Meriden Ave. just before 6 a.m. after receiving reports that a vehicle hit a tree and the driver was unconscious. Police identified the driver as 79-year-old James Michlewski, of Southington. He wa...