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Family friends and coworkers weathered the midday heat on Friday to serve up fish tacos in a parking lot on the Rincon Indian Reservation to raise money for the funeral of a local zip line worker who fell to his death last weekend.

The Brooklyn native first rose to fame playing the notorious robber Omar Little, a robber who terrorized street-level drug dealers in the crime series “The Wire.”

The Glastonbury Police Department is mourning the loss of one of their own. Officer Francis Perrone, who just celebrated his 54th birthday last week, died of natural causes on August 29. Perrone came to the Glastonbury department in 2013, after spending over twenty year patrolling the streets of Hartford – where he was affectionately given the nickname “Bones.” “He was…

“I did not know that I could miss both his laughter and his silence in equal measure. I do,” Lupita Nyong’o wrote about her late friend and “Black Panther” co-star Chadwick Boseman.

Watts’ publicist Bernard Doherty said in a statement that the musician passed away peacefully in a London hospital.

The captain of “The Love Boat” and supporting actor on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” died in his home Saturday.

A 27-year-old firefighter from New Haven suddenly and tragically passed away this weekend, according to officials. William McMillian was assigned to Engine 9, Ellsworth Station, and was a member of the city’s fire department for four years. “FF McMillian will be remembered by his family, friends, and colleagues as a loyal, hard-working, family man,” New Haven Firemen’s Benevolent Association...

The “Bachelor Party” actress died in Newport Beach Friday.

The Oscar-winning actress died Saturday morning in her New York City home.

Lupita Nyong’o is giving an update on how “Black Panther 2” will honor Chadwick Boseman’s life and legacy.

A woman who died in a weekend parachute accident in Northern California had made thousands of previous jumps, the owner of the skydiving center said Monday.

America’s oldest person, Hester Ford, passed away at her home, surrounded by family Saturday.

Police are investigating the death of a 3-year-old boy that happened Saturday afternoon in Hartford.

The rapper suffered a heart attack on April 2 and has been on life support for the past few days prior to his passing.

One year after the WHO names COVID-19 a global pandemic, Hartford HealthCare looked back at the past year and the impact its had on staff and patients.

For many in Connecticut, March 2020 was when the reality of the coronavirus pandemic would begin to set in. Here’s a look back at the events of the past year.

A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at the health outcomes of more than 148,000 U.S. adults.

A man from Wilton who was diagnosed with COVID-19 one year ago joins this week’s Face the Facts to discuss how he is staying vigilant though cases are decreasing.

A life and death debate over rights and ethics took over the virtual Capitol on Friday. Lawmakers heard public testimony on the aid-in-dying bill being considered for at least the eighth legislative session. “Today is the day, it’s been exactly 28 months since she’s passed and I still count every minute that we’ve been apart,” Gregory Shimer of West Hartford...

People paid great heed to John Lewis for much of his life in the civil rights movement. Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died at the age of 80. He was…