Animal shelters from around Georgia were called in to help authorities rescue 700 dogs from a home in Valdosta. News outlets report the shelters say the dogs were kept in small cages, and many of the animals rescued on Saturday had never been walked or held before. One shelter, Release Atlanta, calls it “an extreme hoarding puppy mill case.” A...

Police have arrested a Brooklyn, New York, man after officers found a small alligator, drugs and a weapon inside his apartment, according to authorities.

Ring, the video doorbell company owned by Amazon, has helped law enforcement agencies across the country solve a lot of crimes. But it has also raised concerns about privacy, and critics have been sounding off on social media for months. Tech writers, meanwhile, have wondered if Ring users were getting the full story about the cameras they’d attached to their...

To help keep you informed on the most shared and talked about stories, each Saturday and Sunday we’ll revisit five stories from the previous week, including the most recent updates.

Branford police are issuing a warning to parents in response to a drug arrest that involved marijuana edibles in packaging that may appeal to children and teens.

Hartford Police found what they describe as powerful, mind-altering drugs while conducting a search warrant.

A Portland man is facing manslaughter charges in connection with a fatal overdose in Middletown on April 30.

Two Stamford men are accused of holding a Florida woman against her will for two days, assaulting her, threatening her and not even allowing her to use the bathroom without being guarded.

A Norwalk, Connecticut, man who was arrested after police say he showed interest in committing a mass shooting in a Facebook post is a Central Connecticut State University student and has been suspended and banned from campus, according to school officials.

A Norwalk man was arrested after he showed interest in committing a mass shooting in a Facebook post, according to police.

Six of seven Mississippi chicken processing plants raided Wednesday were “willfully and unlawfully” employing people who lacked authorization to work in the United States, including workers wearing electronic monitoring bracelets at work for previous immigration violations, according to unsealed court documents. Federal investigators behind the biggest immigration raid in a decade relied on confidential informants inside the plants in addition...

Health officials told a 78-year-old cemetery caretaker to clean up trash around a historic burial ground in New Jersey − and he did, but he did it by dumping it into grave sites.

Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans shut down a major highway in San Juan, Puerto Rico, this week in the largest of nearly two weeks of consecutive protests calling for embattled Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to step down. The historic demonstrations follow the release of a private chat on the Telegram app that showed Rosselló and his closest allies denigrating everyone...

Seven people have been arrested after police executed a search warrant as part of an ongoing drug and weapons investigation in Meriden on Monday morning.

A man accused by police of feeding methamphetamines to his pet squirrel to make him an “attack squirrel” has been arrested.

A man accused by police of feeding methamphetamines to his pet squirrel to make him an “attack squirrel” has been arrested.

A suspect was arrested Friday morning in the death of a University of Utah student who vanished after returning to Salt Lake City on a flight from her native Southern California, police said.

A man whose home was searched as police investigate the disappearance of a Utah college student was named a “person of interest” in the case Thursday, and police were trying to find a mattress that had been inside his home. The announcement came shortly after authorities spent about 19 hours searching the man’s home in a middle class Salt Lake...

The son of a man who died after an assault in Bloomfield has been taken into custody in Stamford, where he was accused of shoplifting at a supermarket.

Police have arrested a school bus driver from Stratford who is accused of being in possession of child pornography.