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The Stonington Police Department announced Friday new charges against two suspects in an assault on a Mystic hotel worker. Police are searching for two suspects in an attack against Crystal Caldwell, a 59-year-old hotel worker. Philip Sarner and Emily Orbay are accused of attacking Caldwell. Caldwell told NBC Connecticut they also called her a racial slur. The state’s attorney...

The Stonington Police Department released the audio recordings of two 911 calls that they received about an assault at a Mystic hotel nearly two weeks ago. Police are still searching for the two people accused of attacking Crystal Caldwell, a 59-year-old hotel worker. According to the recordings, the first call came from a colleague of Crystal Caldwell at the Quality…

A hotel clerk says she was assaulted and the victim of a racial slur after receiving a complaint from two guests about hot water.

One barbershop in Stonington opened in defiance of the governor’s executive orders and could face enforcement from the local health district

In mid-March, Michael Evering, like so many people across the country, was worried about his older parents getting COVID-19. “I did not want to bring anything, certainly to them,” said Evering. Evering’s mom and dad both have underlying conditions. His dad is 70 and his mom is 69. In December of last year, his mother was diagnosed with leukemia. She…

Stonington Public School Food Services is serving up grab-and-go lunches and even delivering to families’ doors too to ensure kids don’t go hungry and to keep them healthy during school closures. It takes a team to feed students when they’re at school, and even more so when they’re now learning from home. “We go out and say hi because we...

Stonington public schools are helping families during the coronavirus shutdowns by feeding families so that children do not go hungry while schools are closed to help prevent the spread of the illness.

A truck fire shut down northbound lanes of I-95 on the Stonington/North Stonington line for hours Tuesday. The highway is shut down at Exit 92, according to state police. It is expected to remain closed through midnight. Police said the crash happened just after 2 p.m. when a tractor-trailer traveling in the left lane blew a tire. The truck veered…

A truck fire shut down northbound lanes of I-95 on the Stonington/North Stonington line for hours Tuesday.

Police stopped an 80-year-old man from driving on the wrong side of the road on Interstate 95 in Stonington Saturday night. The man was driving southbound in the northbound lane near exit 93 around 11:30 p.m. Police responded to the scene after receiving multiple 911 calls reporting the incident. Officer Britten Friend located the car and noted it had one…

After a difficult seven-plus years, St. Michael the Archangel Church in the Pawcatuck area of Stonington is opening its doors again. “People are excited about it. They really are,” said David Erskine, a parishioner and retired Stonington police chief. Erskine is one of thousands of people that St. Michael’s offered comfort to in its 150 years.  The church was...

After a restoration project, St. Michael The Archangel Roman Catholic Church in Stonington will open its doors for the first time since 2012 on Saturday.

A Stonington woman has died after she was severely injured in a stabbing last week. Police said the victim, 41-year-old Brandia Irvin, was stabbed at a home on Mechanic Street in the Pawcatuck section of town on November 30. She was taken to Yale New Haven Hospital and died of her injuries on Friday. The suspect, 43-year-old Carlton Henderson, was…

Stonington police have arrested a man accused in a domestic stabbing that left a woman severely injured on Saturday.

A woman was severely injured in a domestic disturbance incident in Stonington on Sunday.

More than 100 mosquitoes have tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis, or EEE, in Connecticut this year, including one in South Windsor, the latest town touched by the virus.

A person diagnosed with EEE earlier this season has died and a second case of the disease has been confirmed in Connecticut this season.

A human case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) has been reported in Connecticut.

Friday’s football game between Montville and Stonington was suspended due to EEE concerns, school officials confirmed.