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An investigation is underway after a man was found dead at a park on the Manchester-East Hartford town line on Sunday night and investigators believe the man had been shot. East Hartford police officers found a man in Wickham Park behind 1211 Tolland Street just after 10:30 p.m. Authorities said the man was killed by suspected gunfire. His identity...

Two high school students were shot and killed at a party in an apartment in Hartford over the weekend. According to police, there was a party inside of an apartment on Hendricxsen Avenue on Saturday around 10:30 p.m. It is believed there were about 10 to 12 people there and all of them knew each other. Officers responded to the…

A baby goose that had fallen into a storm drain is now safe and back with its family, thanks to some help from some Naugatuck police officers. Officers responded to Prospect Street on Sunday morning after a resident reported a baby goose that had wandered away from its family and had fallen into a storm drain. The officers wasted no…

Multiple houses were struck during a drive-by shooting in Enfield on Sunday morning. Officers were called to Lincoln Street around 5:30 a.m. for a report of a shooting in the area. Investigators said there was gunfire between someone in a passing vehicle and residents in the area. The person in the vehicle and the residents are reportedly known to ...

Multiple rooms of a home in West Hartford are damaged after a fire late Saturday night and the home is now likely uninhabitable. Dispatchers received a report of a fire alarm at a home on Cliffmore Road from a fire alarm monitoring company around 11:45 p.m. Shortly after, someone in the home reported a loud noise that caused them to…

Armed citizen patrols are continuing in Hartford, which now includes a South End neighborhood. Organizers say the patrols have been working, but city officials don’t approve of them. In a South End neighborhood along Wethersfield Avenue, armed citizens patrolled the streets Saturday morning after neighbors there made a request. Archbishop Dexter Bu...

This week’s Clear the Shelters Pet of the Week is a four-month-old male Guinea pig named Casper. 

Both sides of Interstate 95 in Norwalk have fully reopened on Sunday, days after a fiery crash closed the area. Crews have been working to demolish the Fairfield Avenue Bridge after it was damaged during a crash and fire on Thursday morning. “Having the highway completely closed in both directions allows additional equipment to be on site,&#8...

A man from the Plantsville section of Southington has died after a motorcycle crash on Interstate 91 North in Windsor on Saturday night. State police said Zachary Nason, 23, was driving on I-91 North near exit 36 around 11 p.m. when he veered to the left and hit the median concrete barrier. During the collision, authorities said Nason was thrown&#8...

A teenager and a man who were both found with gunshot wounds in the stairwell of an apartment building in Hartford late Saturday night have died. Officers responded to Hendricxsen Avenue around 10:30 p.m. after getting multiple 911 calls about shots fired. Police said they found two unresponsive males with gunshot wounds in the apartment building s...

The northbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Norwalk reopened Saturday night, but the southbound lane will remained closed through Sunday, according to Gov. Ned Lamont. Crews worked throughout the night and early morning on Saturday and were able to complete demolition of the damaged overpasss by 12:30 p.m., Lamont said. The overpass was damaged after ...

Seven people were injured when a driver reportedly had a medical emergency and crashed into another vehicle in Orange on Friday night. Police said a Nissan Rogue was traveling eastbound on Derby Avenue just before 7 p.m. when the driver apparently had a medical emergency and crashed into the back of a Mercedes E350 that had been stopped at a…...

Crews extinguished a fire at a scrap yard in Manchester on Saturday. Firefighters responded to Ostrinsky Scrap on Parker Street around 11:30 a.m. for a report of an outside fire. Once there, crews found a large scrap and debris fire in the lot of the facility. Multiple crews brought the fire under control in about two hours with help from…...