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March 28 started like any other day for East Hartford High School senior Christiana Zembrowski. But when the clock struck 7 p.m., she received some life-changing news. Zembrowski learned that she had been accepted to three Ivy League schools – Harvard, Yale and Columbia – and she now has a very important decision to make. While waiting ...

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont acknowledged Monday he helped hire a landscaper that illegally chopped down more than 180 trees and thousands of bushes on a property behind his Greenwich home, capping off days of questions about his level of involvement. The wealthy two-term Democrat, along with one of his neighbors and a neighborhood organization, hav...

Two people were taken to the hospital and several people are displaced after a fire broke out at a condominium complex in Danbury. It happened at the Park Ridge Condo complex on Rose Lane just after 4 p.m. on Monday. Fire officials said they encountered heavy fire coming from the complex. A second alarm was struck to bring in more…

There’s a noise in Bristol that’s been bothering some residents living in the city and beyond. NBC CT Responds first brought you this story in February. It’s believed to be coming from the Covanta facility in Bristol that turns waste into energy. The Bristol-Burlington Health District tells NBC CT Responds that after monitoring noise from inside im...

The man police say killed his wife inside their Simsbury home on Friday morning appeared before a judge Monday in Hartford Superior Court. Ding Sheng Lin, with the help of an interpreter speaking Mandarin, was arraigned on a murder charge. The judge kept the 50-year-old’s bond at $2.5 million. According to court documents, police were called to the...

“I think our demands are pretty simple. Disclose, divest and reinvest in the New Haven community,” Yale student Chisato Kimura said. There’s a growing encampment at Yale University as pro-Palestinian protests continued on Monday. “We’re going to be out here, we’re going to be speaking out,” Kimura said. In the literal sense, Monday’s scene wa...

Changes coming to West Hartford Center next year could impact businesses utilizing the town’s on-street parking space. The area is known for its outside dining and construction could temporarily pause this option for many restaurants. “In West Hartford it’s essential,” said Whitney Gostyla, a waitress at Luna Pizza. “It’s essential to see that your...

Waterbury police have arrested a 15-year-old who is accused of stealing a car, running a red light and causing a crash in Waterbury on Sunday night. Police responded to Wolcott Street and Sharon Road around 7:30 p.m. to investigate a two-car crash and found that one of the cars had been stolen. Police said the driver of the stolen car…...

A bus carrying elementary school children was involved in a crash in Vernon on Monday afternoon. No children were injured, but one parent asked to be taken to the hospital, according to school officials. The crash happened at the corner of Route 30 and Bamforth Avenue.  School officials said six elementary students were on board and Vernon par...

A person has been arrested after allegedly stabbing a customer in the back at a store in Bridgeport on Monday afternoon. The police department said they were called to the area of State Street and Iranistan Avenue just after 3:45 p.m. Authorities said a person was stabbed in the back while inside a store in the area. The extent of…

Police from the town of Groton shot a man with a stun gun at a hotel Sunday morning after he held a knife to a man’s throat and threatened to “kill everyone,” including his wife and children, police said.   Police said it started with a man calling 911 and telling police that hotel staff refused to allow him into…

A man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in Thomaston over the weekend has been arrested, according to police. Police said they arrested 37-year-old Richard Blood after a woman reported that she was bound and sexually assaulted at a Thomaston home around 1 a.m. on Saturday. Responding officers found the woman with visible injurie...