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Among the 40 schools and nearly 20,000 students in New Haven Public Schools, there’s a math problem, according to New Haven Federation of Teachers President Leslie Blatteau. “And then New Haven, we have 56% of our property is nontaxable. So then our students suffer? This is where the state of Connecticut, being a wealthy state, should absolutely st...

Police have arrested a 21-year-old woman in the January shooting death of a delivery driver in New Haven. Police responded to 911 calls reporting a person down in the road in the are of Shepard Street and Goodrich Street around 4 p.m. on January 19. Officers found the victim, 26-year-old Raviteja Koyyada, of Hamden, unresponsive and suffering from ...

Finding out that someone was allegedly held captive in a house in Waterbury for about two decades was a shock to a next-door neighbor who has lived here for 10 years. “I was right by here this whole time and he was going through that suffering. It’s heartbreaking. I just I hope he’ll be okay,” Zeffery Guarnera, of Waterbury,...

Two people have been arrested in connection to a crash that left two people dead in New Haven last year. Officers responded to Middletown Avenue and Barnes Avenue shortly before 2 a.m. for a report of a three-vehicle crash on July 27, 2024. Once on Middletown Avenue, police said they found three vehicles with front-end damage. Authorities said nume...

A Marlborough man has been arrested after he allegedly submitted nearly two dozen false invoices and received over $43,000, according to police. State police said a member of the Roy B. Pettengill Ambulance Association submitted 22 fraudulent invoices and was reimbursed a total of $43,133. It happened between 2011 and 2024, according to an arrest w...

The long-running seaside festival “Sailfest” is going to look different this year, according to New London’s mayor. It comes a day after the organizer of the downtown festival announced it would be “canceled.” The city said it’s not their decision to make and they still have plans for the mid-summer festivities. The mayor also made it c...

The Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) said Thursday it has no records related to the family of a man who told police he was held captive inside a Waterbury home since the age of 11. He is now 32 years old. He was found in the home on Blake Street in Waterbury in February after emergency crews responded…

A 43-year-old woman is accused of stealing more than $12,000 from the Parent-Teacher Organization at a school in West Hartford. Police began an investigation in November after PTO members from Wolcott Elementary School reported financial irregularities and possible misuse of the organization’s finances, according to police. Detectives obtaine...

Officials described the disturbing conditions that a Waterbury, Connecticut, man endured during 20 years of captivity.

A recall has been issued for Zaarah Herbals powders after an investigation in Connecticut found significantly elevated levels of lead and inorganic arsenic, according to the state Department of Consumer Protection. The department said an investigation by the Department of Consumer Protection’s Food and Standards Division and the Connecticut Agricul...

Farmington police have arrested an 18-year-old woman who is accused of hitting a motorcyclist who later died from his injuries. Police said the teen hit two motorcyclists on Route 10, just north of Route 4, around 2:42 p.m. on Aug. 20. LifeStar medical transport helicopter flew one of the motorcyclists, 31-year-old Justin Gittings, of Meriden, to H...

A Waterbury woman allegedly held her stepson captive for 20 years, providing little food and water, and a former school principal is speaking out and said the school reported concerns. “We knew it. We reported it. Not a damn thing was done. That’s the tragedy of the whole thing,” Tom Pannone, the former principal of the now-cl...

A Silver Alert has been canceled for a newborn that was reported missing out of Bridgeport. The baby is just a few weeks old and was reported to be with his mother. The Silver Alert was initially issued on Wednesday but has since been canceled.

Hamden police are looking for your help finding a man that has been missing for about two months. Authorities said Keith Brady, 46, may be in need of medical attention. He is described to be 6-foot-1 with dirty blonde hair and hazel eyes. Police said Brady was reported missing in January and was last seen in the area of Yale…