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Residents are being urged to avoid downtown Seymour after a structure fire on Saturday. Police said the fire has closed Main Street between Route 67 and Deforest Street. Bank Street and Columbus Street are also closed in the area, officers added. Authorities urged residents to avoid the downtown area. It’s unclear what type of building the fire was in or…

Police have identified the two people who died after their car ended up in the Housatonic River in Seymour on Friday afternoon. Connie Crowell, 54, and her son, John Crowell, 22, were pronounced dead at the scene. Connie and John were from Monroe, according to police. The incident occurred off Roosevelt Drive. Connie and John were in the car and…

Two people are dead after a car ended up in the Housatonic River in Seymour Friday afternoon.

Crews were called to a river rescue in the Housatonic.

A man from Waterbury has been arrested after a garbage truck overturned on Route 8 in Seymour on Saturday and closed the highway for hours. State police said 30-year-old Jose Edwin Vasquez, of Waterbury, was driving a garbage truck on Route 8 southbound near exit 22 around 12 p.m. when he was unable to negotiate a left curve. Vasquez’s vehicle…

Route 8 Southbound has reopened after an overturned tractor-trailer accident Saturday afternoon. Troopers from Troop I-Bethany were dispatched to Route 8 southbound near exit 22 after getting a report of a crash involving a rollover tanker around 12:15 p.m. According to officials, Route 8 southbound was closed between exits 22 and 20. The exit 22 on ramp to Route 8…

A couple in their 80s has been reported missing from Seymour. State police said 89-year-old Charles Payne and 87-year-old Rosemarie Payne have been missing since Monday. Investigators said the husband and wife may be traveling in a red 1993 Chevrolet pickup with unknown Florida tags. Charles is 5-foot 6-inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. He has grey hair and blue…

A former meat-packing facility in Beacon Falls will be demolished after a fire early Thursday morning.

As law enforcement authorities across the country respond to a wave of bomb threats, many of which are by email, several similar investigations are underway in Connecticut.

Community after community across the country dealt with apparent email bomb threats Thursday, which disrupted lives and tied up police.

Schools and businesses in several towns received email bomb threats on Thursday.

In April of 2014, a five-year-old girl was playing with her brothers on the grounds of the Econo Lodge in Terre Haute, Indiana where she was staying with her family, when a man grabbed her, took her into his motel room, hit her, pulled off her clothes, and molested her.

Firefighters responded to a large fire at an apartment complex in Seymour on Saturday afternoon.

Crews knocked down a brush fire in Derby Saturday before rushing to another scene in Seymour.

Seymour High School has banned student cell phone use, and officials say after just over a month they’re seeing positive results.

Hours before a woman whose family runs a popular restaurant in Cheshire, Connecticut was scheduled to be deported Monday back to Albania, a country she hasn’t been to in 15 years, after a temporary stay of deportation was issued.

The state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has released numbers on accidental intoxication deaths and is projecting that by year’s end the state will see over 1,000 overdose deaths if the trend continues at its current rate.

A man whose girlfriend died when the SUV he was driving plunged into an embankment was trapped with her body for three days before he was able to crawl for help.

The search for a missing grandmother ended early Sunday morning when a family member found her lying near her car at in a ravine near Seymour, Texas.

New Britain police have identified two more victims of the serial killer who they say buried at least seven bodies behind a shopping center in the city.