Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross says hackers broke into servers holding its data and gained access to personal, confidential information on more than a half-million vulnerable people.

It’s certainly not baseball season yet, but lots of people made their way to Dunkin’ Donuts Park in Hartford Thursday. It was one of two locations for NBC and Telemundo Connecticut’s New Beginnings Blood Drive. As the country deals with a dangerously low blood supply, we’re so thankful for so many of you who have stepped up to the...

NBC and Telemundo paired up with the Hartford Yard Goats and The American Red Cross for our annual New Year’s Blood Drive. While there is still a blood shortage across the country, almost 200 hundred donated blood today. Appointments to donate blood can still be made.

The American Red Cross has been facing a blood shortage crisis, the worst since 2011.The Red Cross is encouraging people to donate now more than ever. Donors can give blood tomorrow at the Dunkin Donuts Park and West Hartford Town Hall.

The American Red Cross on Tuesday said it declared its first-ever “blood crisis” as it faces the worst national blood shortage in about a decade.

Adriana Donofrio, 6, is fighting a rare form of leukemia and blood transfusions are vital to keeping her alive during her treatment.

NBC Connecticut, Telemundo Connecticut, and the Red Cross are teaming up for a blood drive this Thursday.

Two employees of the Red Cross in Connecticut headed to Kentucky this week to help victims of the deadly tornadoes there.

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy’s mainland

The American Red Cross is opening several shelters for Connecticut residents in advance of Hurricane Henri, which is expected to make landfall Sunday. Some of the shelters opened at 8 p.m. Saturday and are available to anyone who needs assistance. There are also multiple shelters that will open Sunday. Officials with the Red Cross said they’ve also pre-positioned shelter...

A warehouse where fuel was illegally stored has exploded in northern Lebanon, killing 20 people and wounding dozens more with severe burns

The American Red Cross says they are experiencing a critical shortage in blood donations.

In partnership with NBC Connecticut and Telemundo Connecticut, the American Red Cross held a blood drive on Tuesday.

The Red Cross says its in dire need of blood donations at this time of year.

A Connecticut couple met and fell in love thanks to their generosity of donating blood platelets to the Red Cross.