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Darien native Jasmine Su has been finding her joy in the game of chess ever since she was seven years old. “My dad introduced this game to me and I’ve been hooked since,” said Jasmine Su. And now at the age of 10, she’s not only making moves on the board but in the rankings, as she’s been named...

Darien native Jasmine Su has been finding her joy in the game of chess ever since she was 7 years old. And at the age of 10 she’s not only making moves on the board but in the rankings…as she’s been named by the United States Chess Federation one of the top players in her age bracket in the...

A second woman has come forward to say she was hit by a car being driven by a man who was later charged with attempted murder in New Canaan. The woman went to Darien police on Tuesday after seeing a report about the arrest of 31-year-old Mynor Romeo Alvarado-Canahui on Memorial Day. Alvarado-Canahui is accused of hitting a woman with…

Darien Public Schools are closing for two weeks amid concerns about coronavirus. Supt. Alan Addley sent a message to families on Wednesday, saying that Darien public schools are closing for 14 calendar days, from Thursday, March 12, and the scheduled date of return to school is Thursday, March 26. In addition to the school closure, all academic, athletic, and extracurricular…

Westport and New Haven are taking steps to protect against the coronavirus by closing schools.

A skier who went off the marked trails at Stowe Mountain Resort and was found dead at the bottom of a cliff has been identified as a Connecticut man. Andrew Hryb, 36, of Darien, and his brother had gone out of bounds into the woods and became disoriented, Vermont State Police said Monday. The pair tried to find their way…

A Darien man who charged with killing a hotel worker he says attacked his family on the Caribbean island of Anguilla is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed against him. Scott Hapgood said a hotel worker, Kenny Mitchel, 27, of Dominica, showed up at his family’s room unannounced during their April vacation, demanded money and attacked them. Mitchel died, and…

The estate of a hotel worker who died after a fight with a Darien man has filed a lawsuit against him.

Authorities in Anguilla are calling a father from Darien, Connecticut who has been charged in the death of a hotel worker in Anguilla a fugitive after he declined to return to the British Caribbean territory for the latest pretrial hearing.

Authorities in Anguilla are calling Scott Hapgood, a Darien man who faces manslaughter charges in the death of a hotel worker, a fugitive and said they plan to issue an arrest warrant after he didn’t travel there for a court appearance yesterday.

A Darien, Connecticut man charged in the death of a hotel worker in Anguilla has declined to return to the British Caribbean territory for the latest pretrial hearing.

A major crash on a Connecticut highway has left a passenger dead and four people seriously injured.

A Norwalk doctor has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison on drug distribution and health care fraud charges after what authorities have called the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the federal Medicare Fraud Strike Force in the country.

Part of Noroton Avenue in Darien remains closed on Friday after a crash on Thursday night.

TV talk show host and Jerry Springer protege Steve Wilkos will have a drunken-driving charge erased from his record if he completes Connecticut’s alcohol education program.

Talk show host Steve Wilkos has been charged with operating under the influence in Darien after a crash in January and police said his blood alcohol content level was more than three times the legal limit.

Nearly 300 people have died in train crashes that could have been prevented if railroads across the U.S. implemented critical speed-control technology that federal safety investigators have been pushing for close to five decades, according to rail crash data obtained by The Associated Press. But despite overwhelming evidence it could save lives, Congress extended the deadlines for railroads to implement...

Darien resident Robert Carley has traveled the country documenting American flag tributes. This year, he decided to take on one of his own.

Federal officials said a federal grand jury has returned an indictment for two Connecticut doctors who were arrested in connection with what authorities are calling the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the federal Medicare Fraud Strike Force in the country.

One of two Norwalk physicians accused of writing illegal prescriptions, defrauding the state’s Medicaid program out of millions of dollars and money laundering faced a judge in Bridgeport on Wednesday.