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A child who was on an electric scooter is in serious condition after a crash in Westport on Wednesday night. Police said the crash happened around 6 p.m. on Cobble Hill Road and the child was transported to Norwalk Hospital. The Westport Police Accident Investigation Team and the Fairfield Police Accident Investigation Team are working to figure ou...

We have a mostly sunny day on Thursday with warm temperatures near 80 degrees inland and in the 60s at the shore. Some low-altitude wildfire smoke is possible in southern Connecticut, but the NBC Connecticut StormTracker meteorologists do not expect major issues. Thursday night will be fair with temperatures in the 50s. Friday will be sunny with so...

Four people have died after a car crashed into a store in Waterbury, Connecticut, Thursday morning, causing part of the building to collapse.

Hundreds of people gathered to protest a visit by a controversial Israeli government official in New Haven Wednesday night. Itamar Ben-Gvir was met with boos from protesters as he entered an event hosted by the Shabtai Society, a group not affiliated with Yale University but has student members. Mitchell Dubin, a member of Shabtai, said in a statem...

Crews have contained a large brush fire that spread over 50 acres in Lyme on Wednesday night. The Lyme Fire Company said the fire broke out around 4:30 p.m. in the area of Becket Hill and Grassy Hill roads. Multiple fire departments and CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) forestry crews responded to the scene. Fire officials...

Several fire agencies put out a fire that broke out at a recycling center in Montville Wednesday evening. The fire broke out at Connecticut Scrap on Pequot Road near Interstate 395 around 5:20 p.m. Smoke from the fire could be seen from miles away. Police asked people to stay away from the area of Route 163, Maple Avenue and Pequot…

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Tuesday a ban on artificial dyes in the country’s food supply. The FDA banned Red Dye 3 in January, and the new ban targets six other synthetic dyes and two food colorings. The ingredients are found in processed foods like candies, cereals, drinks and even some medicine. Kennedy claims the dyes ar...

A Hamden Middle School employee has been placed on leave after students reported finding images of them on an adult website, school officials said. In a statement to parents, Principal Michelle Coogan said administrators were made aware of concerns involving a school employee during dismissal on Monday. Students reported finding inappropriate image...

A driver accused of hitting and killing a man in Lisbon in October has been charged with second-degree manslaughter. State police arrested 36-year-old William Stonier, of Ledyard, on Wednesday during a court appearance. Police said Stonier was driving a Dodge Ram 1500 pickup on River Road around 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 14, 2024 when the pickup went off ...

A driver who behind the wheel of a stolen box truck hit several vehicles, including a state police cruiser and a Waterbury police SUV, while fleeing from authorities on Wednesday and was taken into custody in Waterbury, according to police. Waterbury police initially responded to South Main Street after a contractor who was working in the area repo...

Westport police have arrested a man who is accused of placing a hidden camera in a shared bathroom in an apartment and taking videos. Police said they received a complaint on April 2 from someone who said they found a hidden camera placed in a bathroom that they shared with a married couple and video had been taken without their…

A new brunch spot is opening its first location in Connecticut early next month. It’ll be situated in downtown West Hartford.

A day after a jury found Jose Morales guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Christine Holloway, in the couple’s Ansonia apartment in 2019, Ansonia police are thanking those jurors for their verdict. The jury found Morales guilty of murder and tampering with evidence Tuesday after 10 days of a trial in which Morales took the stand in his own def...

Volunteers gathered in Clinton on Wednesday with the goal of restoring more eelgrass to the Long Island Sound. Their method was to glue eelgrass seeds onto clams. About 20,000 seeds were then put in the Long Island Sound so the clams can bury into the seafloor and plant the seeds. Growing more eelgrass will be beneficial to fish and improve…...