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Newtown police are investigating after officers found what they describe as racist and anti-Semitic graffiti on an abandoned truck and boat. Officials said they believe the graffiti occurred early Friday morning on Hawleyville Road. The graffiti was reported by several passing drivers, according to police. Highway department officials were able to immediately paint over the graffiti after documenting it for…

Residents in Newtown are being advised to beware of a group of people trying to enter and steal unlocked cars in the area, police said. Officials said two men and one woman they believe to be responsible for the break-ins are driving a black Mercedes. The car has no front plate and a chrome front grille, police said. Police said…

Newtown police have arrested an individual after a months-long investigation into what they believe to be racist remarks made during a virtual high school class. Officials said they’ve arrested a “local juvenile” for crimes that were committed in the fall of 2020. The person is accused of accessing the online platform Google Classroom at Newtown High School and using “racial…

Newtown police are investigating after anti-Semitic graffiti was found on a synagogue in town on Saturday morning.

Police say two young men died when the SUV they were in plunged into a ravine.

A day after the apparent suicide of a father of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim, there is an important conversation taking place in Newtown and all around Connecticut.

A vehicle hit the side of a restaurant and a pedestrian while attempting to avoid a collision with another vehicle in Newtown on Monday, according to police.

Sandy Hook Elementary School students have been sent home for the day after a bomb threat forced an evacuation on the sixth anniversary of the massacre that killed 20 first-graders and six educators.

Newtown Police have arrested a man from Norwalk on an outstanding warrant on Friday.

Newtown police are trying to identify a person who dumped used medical waste and equipment on the side of the road multiple times over the past year.

Newtown police will host showings of stolen property seized following the arrest of two juveniles accused of stealing items out of vehicles.

A Newtown man has been charged with four counts of sexual assault on children.

A man is being accused of making a threatening phone call to the Sandy Hook School in Newton before the first day of school.

A U.S. Justice Department report prompted by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre urges police chiefs around the country to put mental health programs in place to help officers cope with on-the-job trauma, including the aftermath of mass shootings.