Hamden

One person has died and another person is injured after a shooting in Hamden on Saturday night. Police responded to the 300 block of Goodrich Street around 8:45 p.m. after getting a report of shots fired. Officers said a concerned citizen had reported hearing ten shots. When police arrived, they said they found two gunshot victims. According to investigators, one…

The Eli’s on Whitney restaurant in Hamden is temporarily closed after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. In a Facebook post on Friday, the restaurant said it will be closed for the next five days out of an abundance of caution for the staff and the guests. “During this time, we will be sanitizing contact surfaces as well as...

After the CDC released an update stating that the coronavirus can spread by airborne transmission, many Americans are wondering what else they can do to keep safe. Jose-Luis Jimenez, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, explains what this new guidance means and how it should change your behavior this winter.

Authorities are investigating after a geocache was found at Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden Saturday afternoon. Police said there is no public safety concern at this time. Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden was closed due to a law enforcement investigation, according to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Police initially were investigating after a suspicious item was…

Authorities are investigating after a geocache was found at Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden Saturday afternoon.

Friday morning Randolph Bond was at the Keefe Community Center, loading up a second round of food boxes in the back of his pick-up truck. “Thirty boxes on my last trip,” said Bond. He’s delivering the boxes from the “Farmers to Families” program to people he knows around Hamden, who, eight months in to the coronavirus pandemic, could use...

A new program in Hamden is helping deliver food to families across the state who are in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Police are investigating a suspicious incident that occurred in Hamden Thursday afternoon. A 14-year-old girl told police that she was walking home from school when a light gray, small four-door vehicle pulled up very close to her. She then said that she felt as though the driver was “trying to grab her,” according to police. The girl said the driver…

An off-duty police officer in Hamden helped catch several suspected carjackers last Thursday and ran after them, even while still in his pajamas. Hamden police said Sergeant Michael Sigmon saw a vehicle on Dixwell Avenue that matched the description of a vehicle that was taken earlier in a carjacking in New Haven. After a brief, low-speed chase, the six people…

A Silver Alert has been canceled for an 84-year-old man who was reported missing from Hamden on Wednesday. Andrew Kantra had been missing since Tuesday, police said.

Hamden police have arrested a man who is accused of driving under the influence and hitting a bicyclist who died at the scene. Police said they responded to Dixwell Avenue and Collins Street at 1:15 a.m. Thursday. They investigated and said 21-year-old Ryan Bivens, of Hamden, was driving south on Dixwell Avenue, crossed the double-yellow lines, both northbound lanes, entered…

Students in Hamden are starting school today after the town had to delay the start date twice due to staffing concerns amid the pandemic. The schools in Hamden are gradually reopening with the goal of returning to full days. Kindergarten through sixth grade students are attending four days a week for five-and-a-half hours per day and one day of at-home…

Students in Hamden returned to school on Tuesday for the first time since school shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Police say a Hamden man stabbed a relative in a home on Weybosset Street on Sunday night. Officers responded to the home around 10:45 p.m. Sunday and found the victim in a bedroom suffering from multiple stab wounds. She suffered injuries to her neck, stomach, arms, and legs, according to police. She was rushed to Yale New Haven Hospital and…

Hamden schools will gradually reopen until they can do full days with their students.

Hamden schools will open on Tuesday, a delay from their original date after teachers raised concerns that needed to be addressed.

Quinnipiac University is upping the fight to prevent coronavirus cases on campus. While so far this semester there have been no reported cases, there is a change for students eating in dining halls and a new plea to parents hoping for a reunion with their child. To help prevent potential spread the school announced Wednesday that some chairs will be…

The food pantry at the Keefe Community Center has continued to offer food services to those who need it, especially over the last six months as they say the number of people showing up has increased. “We used to see about 200 families a month at the food bank and it went up to over 500 a month so we…

The Keefe Community Center in Hamden has planted a garden to grow produce to help feed those facing food insecurities in town.

Hamden police are searching for a suspect accused of exposing himself to a woman while he was driving. Police said on Monday around 8:30 a.m. a woman reported she was driving on Whitney Avenue when she noticed a truck with a “large silver flatbed” following her. She said the driver of the truck winked at her. As she continued driving,…