Franklin

A Norwich man was killed in a head-on crash on Route 32 in Franklin Thursday morning. Ramon Pantoja, 37, was driving South on Route 32 near Meeting House Road around 6:30 a.m. when a car driving in the other direction tried to pass a tractor-trailer and pulled out into Pantoja’s lane, according to state police. The car hit Pantoja’s Toyota…

A 49-year-old Willimantic woman has died after her vehicle and an ambulance collided head-on crash in Franklin Thursday night. The crash happened on Route 32 in Franklin just before 11 p.m. State police said the ambulance was heading north on Route 32 in the area of Pleasure Hill Road and Dawn Brett, 49, of Willimantic, was driving a Toyota Camry…

A 49-year-old Willimantic woman has died after her vehicle and an ambulance collided head-on crash in Franklin Thursday night.

State troopers said one person is dead and two others are injured after a crash in Franklin on Christmas night. The crash happened on Route 32 in the area of Murphy Road. Police said a car with two people inside was traveling southbound on Route 32 while another car was driving north in the same area. The driver of the…

A Ledyard man has died after a crash in Franklin on Wednesday night. Officers were dispatched to Route 32 in the area of Dobrucki Road in Franklin just before 11 p.m. for an accident. According to officials, the driver of one car veered into the opposite travel lane and collided head-on with another vehicle. Police said Clarence Montgomery, 59, of…

At least 10 fire departments responded to a large house fire in North Franklin Thursday.

Tickets are now on sale for next month’s Miss America 2020 competition at Mohegan Sun.

Such a quintessentially American role, some said, should have gone to an African American actress. Erivo, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants to England, was born in London and currently lives in New York.

Olympia Sports announced it is closing 50 stores in New England as part of its plan to close a total of 76 stores.

British actress Cynthia Erivo is relatively small in stature. In person, she is earnest and genial. In performance, the 32-year-old can appear achingly vulnerable. And if you’re not paying attention, she will bowl you over. Now, after glimpses of her on-screen power last year in Drew Goddard’s “Bad Times at the El Royale” and Steve McQueen’s “Widows,” Erivo gives her...

Connecticut State Police have identified the man who was killed in a crash on Route 169 in Lisbon on Saturday morning.

Tropical Depression Barry dumped rain as it slowly swept inland through Gulf Coast states Sunday, sparing New Orleans from a direct hit but stoking fears elsewhere of flooding, tornadoes, and prolonged power outages. Though the system was downgraded to a tropical depression Sunday afternoon and its winds were steadily weakening since it made landfall Saturday in Louisiana, Barry’s rain bands...

One person is dead after an accident involving a log truck in Franklin, though police said the death may not have been caused by the crash.

A fight is emerging over whether a son of Aretha Franklin could be put in charge of the late singer’s estate after a 2014 handwritten will was found under cushions in her suburban Detroit home. Attorneys for the estate said in a court filing Monday that “there is no basis to support the assumption” that Kecalf Franklin has the “ability,...

Walmart is going to begin delivering groceries inside shoppers’ homes. Right to their kitchen refrigerators. Starting this fall, nearly 1 million people across three cities — Kansas City, Missouri, Pittsburgh and Vero Beach, Florida — will have access to Walmart’s new in-home delivery option, the retailer announced Friday at its annual shareholders meeting in Bentonville, Arkansas. The company said it...

A strong storm system barreling through the South on Friday killed an 8-year-old girl in Florida and threatened to bring tornadoes to large parts of the Carolinas and southern Virginia.

Aretha Franklin is still getting R-E-S-P-E-C-T after death: The Queen of Soul received the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation honor Monday, becoming the first individual woman to earn a special citation prize since the honor was first awarded in 1930. The Pulitzer board said the award was given to Franklin for “her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more...

Powerful storms swept across the South on Sunday after unleashing suspected tornadoes and flooding that killed at least eight people, injured dozens and flattened much of a Texas town. Three children were among the dead. Nearly 90,000 customers were without electricity in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Georgia as of midday Sunday, according to www.poweroutage.us as the severe weather left...

U.S. clocks will “spring forward” again on March 10 to make room for an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings as winter fades away. That also means losing out an hour’s sleep Saturday night. Daylight saving time officially starts at 2 a.m. Sunday, when clocks are pushed forward one hour to 3 a.m. When you go to bed on...

They are fighting, yes, but the fight crackles with the enticing electricity that only Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn could deliver. He is storming out the door. She is throwing his golf clubs after him. The music is jaunty. He is charmingly irritated. Then he . he . he strides up to her, throws a fake punch in the air...