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Traffic was backed up for miles on Interstate 91 North in Middletown after a crash early Tuesday morning and the scene has cleared. A tractor-trailer and another vehicle collided between exits 20 and 21 just after 6:30 a.m. and the highway was congested for hours.

Today is National Drive-In Day. While you might not plan to head to a drive-in on a Tuesday night, you might want to go to one this weekend. Mansfield Drive-In is showing movies on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at this point in the season. Carload Wednesday will begin in mid-June. The movies showing this coming weekend include “The Little&#823...

Have you been dealing with a cough, runny nose or fever-like symptoms this spring, but tested negative for COVID? You might blame your symptoms on allergies, but you could actually have another respiratory virus. It isn’t something new, but doctors say COVID brought a lot of these respiratory viruses to light. This one is called Human Metapne...

Scattered storms are moving through the state. We’ve had a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings for southwestern and northeastern Connecticut on Tuesday afternoon. Lightning and small hail have been reported. We also have smoke in the air that is creating hazy skies and reducing visibility across the state. There’s a poor air quality ...

The Connecticut House of Representatives has passed a two-year, $51.1 billion state budget that includes a historic cut to the state’s personal income tax. The Democratic-controlled House chamber began debating the bill late Monday. The bill was passed shortly before 2 a.m. on Tuesday. The Senate, also controlled by Democrats, will have to pa...

For the past 20 years, former NFL head coach Eric Mangini has spent a Saturday in June back in his home town. “I wanted to do it in Hartford, we’ve had chances to move it multiple times but I wanted it in Hartford,” said Mangini. “And I wanted a big cross section of society so we can break down some…

A New Milford man who police said killed his mother and called authorities to report the crime is being held on $2 million and a judge has ordered him to have no contact with his father and siblings. 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…

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. Experts with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection say more than 160 fires are burning in Quebec and most are out of control. It’s contributed to elevated levels of P-M2.5, which are fine particles in our air. DEEP said the ...

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.