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A minor is recovering after being injured in a shooting in New Haven on Friday night. Police received a ShotSpotter alert about gunfire on Goffe Street around 6:45 p.m. It was reported that someone had been shot. According to police, a minor was found in the middle of Goffe Street park. He had been shot in the left foot. The…

A motorcyclist from South Windsor has serious injuries after a crash in Enfield on Friday night. An SUV and a motorcycle collided at the intersection of King Street and Weymouth Road around 5:30 p.m. According to police, the 60-year-old motorcyclist from South Windsor was transported to St. Francis Hospital for serious injuries. The occupants insid...

A woman who was in the backseat of a disabled vehicle has died after an armored vehicle crashed into the back of it on the Gold Star Bridge in Groton on Friday. State police said a 52-year-old man from Indiana was driving a Ford Edge southbound near the exit 83 on-ramp around 6:40 p.m. when there was a mechanical failure…

Meghan Hatch and Paul Geary are both teachers at Woodland High School. This weekend, the husband and wife will participate in the New England Ride to End Alzheimer’s in New Hampshire.  “I needed to do something positive and productive with my grief and my fear,” said Hatch, whose mother Linda is living with Alzheimer’s ...

June marked the start of meteorological summer and it felt like summer with warm temperatures well into the 80s on Saturday. Those summer-like temperatures will continue for the rest of the weekend. An offshore wind brought warm temperatures down to the beaches despite the temperature of Long Island Sound hovering around 60 degrees. The average hig...

A man has died after crashing his motorcycle in Bloomfield early Saturday morning. The crash happened at the intersection of Blue Hills Avenue and East Dudley Town Road around 2:15 a.m. It was reported to dispatchers that a motorcycle was on the lawn of the business at the intersection. In the area, officers said they found a severely damaged motor...

The Town of Southington will hold a moment of silence to honor Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier. TFC Pelletier died in the line of duty when he was hit by a pickup truck while he was conducting a traffic stop on Interstate 84 in Southington on Thursday afternoon. A nine-year veteran of the Connecticut State Police, TFC Pelletier was working&#823...

The invasive aquatic plant known as hydrilla has been an ongoing issue along the Connecticut River for years. “When hydrilla moves in and covers a cove it can make it difficult for someone to boat around, it can get wound up in props,” Department of Energy and Environmental Protection fisheries biologist Matt Goclowski said. This week, the U.S. Arm...

Support is out there for the Pelletier family who is mourning the tragic and sudden loss of State Trooper Aaron Pelletier. Some community members paid their respects at the Jude Lane Overpass in Southington, not far from where he was killed while conducting a traffic stop Thursday afternoon. Some people left bouquets of flowers and a handwritten no...

A somber procession took place Friday afternoon to escort fallen Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier to a funeral home in Southington. The Connecticut State Police Traffic Services Unit led the escort from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Farmington. TFC Pelletier was conducting a traffic stop on I-84 East near Exit 31 in Southington Thu...

State police have arrested the man who is accused of hitting and killing Connecticut State Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier on Interstate 84 in Southington on Thursday, then leaving the scene. Alex Oyola-Sanchez, 44, of Hartford, has been charged with manslaughter in the second degree, operating under the influence of drugs or alcohol, evading r...

An imposter scam is targeting Connecticut credential holders in an attempt to steal their personal information, according to the Department of Consumer Protection. They are issuing a warning to people who could be affected. The scam appears to target all holders of a license, permit, registration, or other type of credential issued by the state of ...

Five years have passed since Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five, disappeared. Police have searched the state, from her home in New Canaan to Farmington, where her estranged husband lived, and beyond, but they have not located her. Last year, a probate judge declared Jennifer legally dead. Her family and friends marked the fifth year without her by is...

A 38-year-old man who was stabbed in Hartford on Thursday night has died. Police said 911 calls started coming in to respond to New Britain Avenue because of a large a fight and officers arrived at the scene around 8:25 p.m. to find William Jemison, of Hartford, unresponsive. He had what appeared to be a puncture wound, police said. People…...