Newtown

Newtown High School will close at 10 a.m. Monday because of burst pipes in the building, according to the school’s website. A Tweet from the school said there was a flood in the F wing and it caused extensive damage. This morning at NHS we discovered a flood in our F wing which caused extensive damage to our school....

Ten years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the pain is still just as raw for the families of the victims. Yet even as that community relives its darkest day, people are lifting each other up and remaining deeply connected. On a day of remembrance, recollections of life take flight. “Ten years ago this morning, I walked Catherine to…

Ten years later, the pain is still just as raw for the families of the victims, and residents of the community are forever changed by the tragedy.

Reflecting on the lives lost in Sandy Hook ten years ago, local leaders and community activists marked the remembrance of the tragedy with a call to action in ending gun violence in the state.

“Fiercely determined, abundantly compassionate,” Jennifer Hubbard said. These are just some of the words used to describe 6-year-old Catherine Violet Hubbard by her mother Jennifer. “If Catherine were still gracing this earth, she most certainly would be the first to be here and the last to leave,” Hubbard said. Wednesday marked ten years since the Sandy Hook tragedy. Catherine was…

President Biden and Connecticut’s two senators reflected Wednesday, ten years after the tragedy at Sandy Hook.

Jennifer Hubbard was joined by members of the Newtown community Wednesday to break ground on an animal sanctuary that will honor her daughter, Catherine Violet Hubbard.

Monsignor Bob Weiss, the leader of Saint Rose of Lima Church, should be retired by now under church rules. But he appealed to the diocese for more time to see his parish through the 10-year Sandy Hook tragedy milestone.

They would have been 16 or 17 this year. High school juniors. The children killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 should have spent this year thinking about college, taking their SATs and getting their driver’s licenses. Maybe attending their first prom. Instead, the families of the 20 students and six educators slain in the mass…

Plainville Police Chief Christopher Vanghele was a Newtown police officer in 2012 and was one of the first three officers to rush into the school after a gunman opened fire.

Connecticut’s United States senators and representatives held a news conference in Washington, D.C. this morning to mark 10 years since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and people who have lost loved ones spoke, sharing their stories and calling for an end to gun violence. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro were...

A man who had been missing from Newtown for nearly 10 years was found dead in New York earlier this week and investigators said he had been living under a different name while he was missing.

A man who had been missing from Newtown for nearly 10 years was found dead in New York earlier this week and investigators said he had been living under a different name while he was missing. Officers in Newtown received a call on July 29, 2013, to check on Robert Hoagland after he failed to pick up a family member…

A memorial to the children and adults killed in the school shooting in Sandy Hook has opened. Tricia Pinto, the mother of Jack, and Joann Bacon, Charlotte’s mom, explain the symbolism and what the memorial means to them.

A memorial to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary Tragedy opened to the public in Newtown Sunday.

Fire officials are investigating after a car crashed into a local supermarket and hit a pedestrian in Newtown Friday. Crews said the driver lost control of their car while trying to park, and then struck a person before crashing into the building. Both the driver and pedestrian were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. The extent of their injuries…

An oil truck overturned in Newtown Monday morning and oil spilled onto the road, according to police. The oil truck was carrying 2,200 gallons of oil, went off New Lebbon Road, hit a utility pole just before 7:30 a.m., overturned and spilled oil, according to police. The driver wasn’t hurt. The cleanup was expected to take hours.

A 41-year-old Danbury woman suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol was going the wrong way on Interstate 84 East in Newtown early Monday morning when she hit another vehicle head-on, according to state police. The crash happened between exits 9 and 10 around 2:13 a.m. State police said the driver of a tractor-trailer was heading east on I-84…

Indra and Izzy, as the center has named them, were two of 36 cubs in Kilham Bear Center’s care at the time of our visit.

Remember Bobbi the Bear? After the well-known Fairfield County mama bear was shot and killed by a Newtown homeowner, controversy continued after CT wildlife officials wanted to keep her cubs in the wild.