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Connecticut State Police are looking for whoever struck a 14-year-old and took off in Haddam over the weekend. Troopers said they responded to Jackson Road at about 12:15 p.m. on Saturday for a reported pedestrian crash. The suspect vehicle appears to have drove off, headed toward Little City Road. Officers said a 14-year-old was taken to the hospi...

Fire officials said the two fires that destroyed the clubhouse at a historic West Hartford country club over the weekend were not intentionally set. A fire broke out at the Wampanoag Country Club just after 2:20 a.m. on Sunday. Crews found heavy fire coming through the roof of the same building that had been on fire just 24 hours earlier…...

The Office of the Inspector General has determined that a state trooper who shot and wounded a man who was holding a knife and threatening to hurt officers during an eviction in Brooklyn last May was justified. State police said troopers were called to assist state marshals who were handling a court-ordered eviction on Tiffany Street in Brooklyn on...

The former MIT student who pleaded guilty to the 2021 murder of a Yale University graduate student has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Qinxuan Pan, 33, pleaded guilty in February to the murder of Kevin Jiang, a 26-year-old graduate student at the Yale School of the Environment.   Pan faced up to 35 years in prison and he…

The Connecticut Department of Transportation is challenging residents to drive less for the next six weeks to help reduce their carbon footprint. It’s part of their annual Drive Less Connecticut Climate Challenge that launched on Earth Day and runs through May 31. The Drive Less Challenge aims to show the benefits of using the state’s p...

West Hartford police responded to the American School for the Deaf Tuesday morning after the school received an “unverified” threat, according to authorities. The school is located on North Main Street. After investigating for several hours, police determined there was no substantiated threat to the public. They cleared the scene and th...

A 23-year-old woman who once lived in Middletown, Connecticut was found dead in New Jersey and the Union County Prosecutor’s Office in Union County, New Jersey is seeking help from the public as they investigate the case. A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for tips that lead to a conviction. Jasmin Featherstone, 23, was found dead along&#82...

Pitbull has announced the dates for his Party After Dark Tour and he will be coming to Connecticut. One of the 26 cities on Pitbull’s Party After Dark Tour is Hartford. Armando Christian Pérez, who is known as Grammy-Award winner Pitbull, will be at Xfinity Theatre in Hartford, on Friday, Sept. 13. T-Pain will be joining him. Ticket sales will&#823...

An animal shelter is asking for the public’s help with any information about a dog that was found abandoned in a South Windsor hiking area on Monday. Officers were called to the Frank Niederwerfer Wildlife Sanctuary around 11 a.m. for a report of a barking dog. A good Samaritan had reportedly found a dog with his collar connected around......

South Windsor police have arrested a man who is accused of threatening to blow up an animal shelter after his dog was quarantined and threatening an employee as well. In late March, the man threatened to blow up the Tyler Regional Animal Care Shelter and physically threatened a town employee who works at the shelter because his dog was quarantined&...

There was a $100,000 Cash5 jackpot winner in Connecticut for the second day in a row. The winning numbers on Monday were 3-6-25-27-35. The ticket was sold at EZ Stop in Stratford, according to CT Lottery. There was a $100,000 jackpot winner on Sunday night as well. That ticket was sold at Country Farms at 277 Church St. in Hebron….

A Pro-Palestinian protest is continuing at Yale University in New Haven on Tuesday after dozens of people were arrested the day before. The protest started last week and is ongoing. Several people in sleeping bags and various belongings can be seen back on Beinecke Plaza on Tuesday morning. Police officers appeared to be talking to some of the peop...

After a frosty start on Tuesday, there’s a sunny and mild day on tap. Most of the state had a frost advisory in place through the morning. It has since expired. The day will feature lots of sunshine with milder temperatures. Highs will be in the middle 60s away from the water. Winds will increase with gusts 10 to 20…

Avelo Airlines announced that they’re adding two new flights out of Tweed-New Haven Airport for the Puerto Rican Day Parade next month. The flights are to Puerto Rico’s San Juan Luis Munoz Martin International Airport (SJU). The first-ever parade will take place on Saturday, May 18. A spokesperson said the addition of these flights is t...

Over two dozen people are displaced and several pets are dead after a fire broke out at a home in Waterbury Monday night. The fire department was called to a two-alarm fire at a multi-family home on William Street. It appears as though fire tore through the third floor of the structure. Six families lived in the building, and a…

Thousands of low-income households in Connecticut may now be eligible for solar upgrades because of federal funding that was just granted to the state. On Monday, Gov. Ned Lamont announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) a $62.5 million grant. The...