Vernon housing program manager charged with stealing rent checks from tenants
A housing program manager was arrested in connection to altering and stealing checks from at least five tenants for months in 2020.
View ArticleEight Bridgeport gang members indicted on drug-trafficking, murder-related...
A federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging four Bridgeport men with racketeering, drug trafficking and murder, bringing the number of gang members implicated in the probe to...
View ArticleStamford businessman is accused of stealing $4 million in COVID relief loans...
Prosecutors said Diakhate applied for and obtained the 2021 loans last month after the bank issuing the earlier loans confronted him with what appeared to be evidence of fraud almost a year ago.
View ArticleNew Canaan woman’s death first reported as ‘accidental shooting’ by husband...
A New Canaan man who initially told police his wife died when his shotgun accidentally went off in their basement Thursday morning may actually have shot her on purpose, police and prosecutors said.
View ArticleDaily coronavirus updates: Post-vaccination COVID-19 cases extremely rare,...
Out of 1.4 million fully vaccinated people, 242 people have contracted confirmed cases of COVID-19.
View ArticleState officials and NAACP gather outside Windsor Amazon construction site...
Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz, Windsor Mayor Don Trinks, various NAACP representatives and members of the Windsor community gathered Friday outside the Amazon construction site where a noose was found...
View ArticleManchester mother arrested on manslaughter, assault charges in Thanksgiving...
A Manchester mother was arrested Friday in connection with the death of her 3-year-old son, who was unresponsive when police responded to the home in the early hours of Thanksgiving 2020.
View ArticleMan shot in banquet hall in Hartford’s North End, police say
A man was injured in a shooting inside a banquet hall in the North End on Friday night, police say.
View ArticleVaccine demand dropping sharply in Connecticut, even as vaccination rate...
The number of new vaccinations is slowing as Connecticut moves into the next — and possibly more challenging — phase of the vaccine rollout.
View ArticleKayaker dies in Quinebaug River in Pomfret
A man died after his kayak overturned in a Pomfret river Sunday night, the state’s environmental agency says.
View ArticleTroopers look for Tolland robber, unusual getaway car
State police say they are looking for a robber who held up a Tolland store and left in an unusual getaway car...
View ArticleGenetic testing offers hope for solving 2005 Hartford cold case killing
Authorities are hoping to solve a 16-year-old Hartford cold case murder by using new genetic genealogy testing made possible by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.
View ArticleOne dead, two injured, after head-on crash in Bethany
A North Carolina man died and two Naugatuck women were injured in a weekend head-on crash in Bethany, state police say.
View ArticleDouble stabbing under investigation in Hartford
A man and woman were injured in a weekend double stabbing in Hartford, police say.
View ArticleLawsuit against Manchester school board alleges disabled student raped on bus
Parents of a disabled student filed a lawsuit against the Manchester board of education and its contracted bus company, contending negligence after another student raped the girl twice on the bus.
View ArticleOfficials condemn Wolcott house where woman, 12 cats, died; 41 cats and a dog...
A Wolcott house that had 53 cats in it – a dozen of which were dead – was condemned over the weekend, police say. A woman also died in the house.
View ArticleEast Hartford Democratic party chair quits over ‘predators catchers’ Youtube...
The chairman of the East Hartford Democratic Town Committee has resigned after he was featured in a Youtube video shot by a vigilante group that seeks to expose sexual predators.
View ArticleThe FDA signs off on Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in 12- to 15-year-olds,...
The CDC still has to sign off on the use of the vaccine in adolescents.
View ArticleWallingford police arrest man Monday in connection to home gas leak
Wallingford police have made an arrest Monday in connection to a home gas leak that they say was not from a natural source.
View ArticleText messages show Manchester mother’s frustration before her 3-year-old son...
A Manchester mother accused of killing her 3-year-old son last fall repeatedly hit the child in the few months he was in her care and openly fantasized to the baby’s father and her new boyfriend about...
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