Officer shoots person during Torrington welfare check, police say
An officer who went to check on someone’s well-being in Torrington Wednesday ended up shooting a person, police say.
View ArticleConnecticut state police recruits graduate, eight short of full strength due...
The state police code of honor, which every recruit must memorize, took on extra significance Thursday with the graduation of 53 trooper trainees, eight fewer than when the class started due to a...
View ArticlePolice make one of the largest one-time seizures of fentanyl in Connecticut;...
Two Hartford resident were charged with multiple offenses related to the distribution of fentanyl, heroin and crack cocaine, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut Leonard C. Boyle...
View ArticlePremature newborn abandoned on the hood of a car in Mansfield
A man abandoned a newborn baby on the hood of a stranger’s parked car Wednesday afternoon in Mansfield, police said.
View ArticleConnecticut gang member involved in courthouse shootings gets prison
“GHB/Hotz members and associates also committed acts of intimidation and made threats to deter potential witnesses to their crimes and to protect gang members and associates from detection and...
View ArticleDriver killed in Hartford crash that splits car in half
A 28-year-old is dead after a violent, two-car crash in Hartford Thursday night, police say.
View ArticleState police: 18-year-old driver impaired during wrong-way crash on I-91 ramp...
Two people were injured Thursday in a wrong-way crash on an I-91 ramp in East Windsor that state police say was caused by an impaired driver.
View ArticleMachete-wielding woman severely injures pit bull, breaks man’s nose in...
A woman faces felony assault and cruelty to animals charges after she used a machete to break up a Hartford dogfight, a police report says.
View ArticleHartford man sentenced to 30 years in prison for years of child sex assaults
Robert Acosta Torres, 61, pleaded guilty previously to raping a Hartford boy three to four times a week over a six year period and filming the attacks. The assaults began when the child was 6 years old.
View ArticleMore than 1,200 black bears are waking up in Connecticut. What to know about...
Emerging from a long winter slumber, Connecticut’s black bear population is on the move and hungry. The state has tips to “be bear aware” to reduce potential conflicts with the large and powerful...
View ArticleConnecticut authorities say man shot by police officer during Torrington...
The man allegedly “advanced on the officers with a knife in his hand,” the statement said.
View ArticleFeds: Man pleads guilty to ‘extensive ATM skimming scheme’ that hit...
Federal authorities said, citing court documents and statements in court, that between February and June 2017, a Connecticut bank experienced about 35 “incidents of ATM skimming” at multiple locations...
View ArticleDid people in prehistoric Connecticut hunt mastodons? Discoveries in Avon,...
The revelation that humans and mega-animals likely overlapped is part of the continuing work at a 12,500-year-old camp by the Farmington River. Discovered early in 2019 during reconstruction of the Old...
View ArticlePolice: Man with gunshot wound being treated at Hartford Hospital
The Hartford Police Major Crimes and Crime Scene Divisions responded and assumed the investigation.
View ArticleHebron woman arrested, animals confiscated at rescue operation, police say
Connelly was arrested on a warrant on March 25 on three counts of cruelty to animals and held in lieu of $10,000 court set bail.
View ArticleAs lawsuit against Hartford’s archbishop advances, rift widens over $15...
A dispute in the Hartford archdiocese that led to a lawsuit intensified this month, with the chief plaintiff accusing Archbishop Leonard Blair of "a sinister move" and asking the U.S. Conference of...
View ArticleHartford neighborhood mourns grandmother killed while gardening in her own yard
“Cynthia Reynolds was loved. She had a family that loved her, a life that was valued and the fact that these killers are still free is unacceptable,” said the Rev. Henry Brown.
View ArticleTwo men wounded in separate Hartford shootings over the weekend
Two men were wounded in separate weekend shootings in Hartford, according to city police.
View ArticleConnecticut weather: Band of snow cuts across state, causing crashes, delays
Snow fell overnight in some parts of the state, causing crashes. See where:
View ArticleConnecticut Democratic state senator, 80, running again despite opposition...
Sen. Steve Cassano, a Democrat first elected to the Connecticut senate in 2010, said Monday that he will run for reelection, disputing statements from Manchester’s Democratic party leader that he had...
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