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Connecticut joined 23 other states and Washington, D.C., in a lawsuit to stop the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) from pulling back more than $11 billion in public health grants. “We are in the fight of our lives,” Attorney General William Tong (D-Connecticut) said during a press conference at the Legislative Office Building in H...

City, municipal and state leaders gathered on Tuesday to urge the state to pass two new bills aimed at cracking down on street takeovers, illegal dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles. One of the bills is SB 1284: An Act Concerning Street Takeovers and the Illegal use of Certain Vehicles. Currently as it relates to ATVs and dirt bikes, cities are&#82...

University of Connecticut’s men’s basketball player Liam McNeeley has declared for the 2025 NBA Draft. McNeeley is a freshman forward with the Huskies, and he just finished his first season. He was named the 2025 Big East Freshman of the Year. He has played 27 games this season and was a starter in 26 of those games. According to UConn&...

Hartford HealthCare and Quinnipiac University are teaming up to launch the New Careers in Nursing Program, a two-year accelerated initiative designed to help mid-career professionals transition into the nursing field. The program aims to address a growing need for more registered nurses. Kenisha Messam is one of 17 students in the first cohort of t...

Waterbury police have released new body camera footage and documents pertaining to the case of a man who said he was held captive inside a home for 20 years. The body camera footage shows police officers responding to the Blake Street home on the night of Feb. 17, when police say a man set a fire in his room to…

Millions of Americans deal with seasonal allergies each year, and experts say springtime is coming earlier and getting longer due climate change. “The allergy seasons are getting worse,” Hartford HealthCare Immunologist Dr. Philip Hemmers said. “A lot of that has to do with changes in our climate with higher amounts of rain and CO2 levels. The plan...

A now-former Madison school employee has been arrested for allegedly communicating with students inappropriately, police said. Authorities said Shalena Hastings, 37, was arrested on March 28, and she faces a slew of charges including use of a computer to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, misrepresentation of age, risk of injury, impairin...

State police and the Department of Transportation are continuing efforts to crack down on reckless, impaired and wrong-way driving after another weekend of crashes and arrests. From Essex to East Hartford, state officials say the state is lucky more people weren’t killed because of bad decisions. The southern end of Route 9 was the scene of the lat...

More eyes will soon be monitoring the ticket sales industry after President Trump signed an executive order this week. Could this help provide some relief for music and sports fans? We all know that buying a ticket to a concert or a sporting event can be a really frustrating experience. NBC CT Responds has heard from so many of you…

A Hartford man has been charged with murder-for-hire in Vermont. The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont said a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging a 43-year-old Hartford, Connecticut man with murder-for-hire and distribution of fentanyl, cocaine and cocaine base. Federal officials said law enforcement wa...

A Glastonbury woman was arrested after driving the wrong-way on Route 9 on Saturday night, according to state police. Dispatchers received several calls about a driver traveling south on Route 9 North in Essex around 9:10 p.m. A trooper searching the area saw a vehicle going the wrong way on the Interstate 95 North off-ramp and pulled in front of&#...

Police have arrested the father of a 7-month-old baby who they said drowned when he was left alone in a bathtub in East Haven in October. The baby, Angel Josiah Rodriguez, was found unresponsive in a bathtub on Redfield Avenue on Oct. 6, police said. Medics from the East Haven Fire Department tried to save him, but he died after…

Wilton police have arrested a man who is accused of pulling up next a teenage girl and her friend while touching his genitals and asking them if they “liked this.”   The father of a 14-year-old girl called police on Saturday and said his daughter had called him and told him that a man in a red sedan pulled up…

A man is accused of hitting a homeless man with a wrench at a train station in New Haven last month. Officers were called to Union Station on Union Avenue on Feb. 22, 2025, around 2:15 p.m. for a report of a serious assault. When police arrived, they said they found a 52-year-old homeless man with obvious trauma to his…