East Haven

The East Haven Town Hall is reopening to the public on Monday. Town officials ask residents to only visit Town Hall when absolutely necessary. If possible, they ask residents to conduct routine business with the town through email, online through the town’s website, through the mail or by telephone. Anyone who enters Town Hall must wear a mask or...

Police are looking for the person responsible for an armed robbery at a laundromat in East Haven Friday night. Officials said the robbery took place at the EZ Wash Laundromat on Foxon Road at approximately 8 p.m. Responding officers said an employee was robbed by a man wearing a dark-colored jacket, dark ski mask, dark jeans, dark sneakers and dark…

East Haven fire officials are issuing a warning after a child was severely burned while attempting a TikTok experiment called “The Woosh Bottle Experiment.”

East Haven fire officials are issuing a warning after a child was severely burned while attempting a TikTok experiment called “The Woosh Bottle Experiment.” Firefighters responded to a call around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday for someone who had been burned. When they arrived, they learned a child was injured while attempting the experiment, which involves the use of alcohol and a…

Police have identified a woman who was killed in a one-car crash on Route 80 in East Haven early Thursday morning. According to police, 22-year-old Crystal Sedor, of Branford, was heading east on Route 80, also known as Foxon Road, around 4:15 a.m. when the crash happened. Sedor lost control of her car and struck the business sign of John…

The East Haven Rotary Club was busy Thanksgiving morning carefully checking more than 200 Boston Market meals and packaging them up for East Haven residents. “We just try to help anyone in the community who may need it, who is having a little a little bit of trouble,” said Ashley Lesco, of the East Haven Rotary. They’ve been doing this…

Police are investigating after a man said he was shot during an attempted robbery in the parking lot of a bar in East Haven on Saturday morning. Officers were called to Yale New Haven Hospital shortly before 3 a.m. after getting a report of a gunshot victim who had been taken to the hospital in a private vehicle following a…

A Connecticut woman was arrested Wednesday, accused of stealing $600,000 from her husband by convincing him he had Alzheimer’s disease in order to hide it from him, police said.

Police are searching for two men who are accused of shooting at each other outside of a bar in East Haven early Sunday morning.

Police are searching for two men who are accused of shooting at each other outside of a bar in East Haven early Sunday morning. Officers were called to the Rumba Cafe Bar and Lounge on Main Street around 1:10 a.m. after getting a report of gunshots in the area. When police arrived, they said they found several vehicles in the…

The owner of Caroline Manor, an East Haven assisted living facility where two employees overdosed on the job earlier in September, was arrested on Tuesday, police said. Timothy Conroy, 51, was arrested as a result of code violations discovered during an inspection of the facility on Aug. 26 and not corrected for a follow-up inspection on Sept. 23, East Haven…

Those who live at Caroline’s Residential Care in East Haven are fairly independent, so there were only two staff members at the assisted living facility to prepare meals Wednesday afternoon. But they were in need of help themselves after being found in the middle of an overdose.

Police are investigating after two staff members at an East Haven assisted living facility were found overdosing on fentanyl Wednesday afternoon.

East Haven police are investigating after two assisted living facility employees overdosed on fentanyl while on the job Wednesday.

A dog that was left in a hot car has died, the East Haven Animal Shelter, and police have charged the dog’s owner with animal cruelty. Police said the East Haven animal control officer responded to a hotel on East Frontage Road Tuesday after receiving a report of a dead animal and found a lab mix dead in the...

The ShopRite on Foxon Road in East Haven and surrounding businesses were evacuated Wednesday afternoon due to a bomb threat.

The ShopRite at 745 Foxon Road in East Haven and surrounding businesses were evacuated due to a bomb threat Wednesday. Emergency crews responded to sweep the store. No explosives were discovered, police confirmed. There is no indication the threat is credible, police said.

East Haven police have arrested a suspect accused of riding a dirt bike recklessly as part of a large group of riders illegally taking to the town’s streets earlier this month.

A 96-year-old man was arrested Monday, charged in connection with a fatal motorcycle accident in East Haven July 18. Peter Acampora is charged with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle. According to police, Acampora was driving his 1996 Oldsmobile Cierra when he attempted to cross all four lanes of Hemmingway Avenue from Tyler Street Extension when he collided with a…