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A man accused of stalking and harassing UConn basketball star Paige Bueckers and who said on social media he intended to marry her pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a stalking charge. Robert Cole Parmalee, 40, who had an engagement ring and lingerie with him when he was first arrested in August, received a one-year suspended sentence and three years&#...

A Wallingford woman is in a stinky situation, and it appears she’s not alone. Judy Senft was psyched when she got an email saying she won a year’s worth of Charmin toilet paper. But hours later, the company sent her another email with this subject line “Oopsie, we made a Poopsie!” The company said unfortunately the message was sent...

State police have arrested a man in connection to a deadly crash that happened on Interstate 95 North in Stonington earlier this year. Troopers said a man in his 20s turned himself in on Wednesday after a January crash that left a woman dead. Authorities said a car rear-ended another vehicle, which then hit another car before stopping in a…...

A health equity clinic will open at Hartford Hospital in January 2025. This comes thanks to a partnership with the UConn School of Law. “What we really want is to build a community where there are no inequities in care,” said Hartford Hospital Chair of Medicine, Dr. Suparna Dutta. “We all live in the same area, same place, same country…....

Route 1 is closed in Westbrook because of a multi-vehicle crash Wednesday evening. State police said they responded to Route 1, also known as Boston Post Road, in the area of Hammock Road. Serious injuries are being reported, troopers said. The crash happened around 4:20 p.m. It’s unknown how long the road will be closed. No additional inform...

Some animal advocates say Connecticut has an overpopulation of stray cats and would like to see the state do more to curb the issue. Two independent rescuers in Vernon are trying to tackle the issue in their own neighborhoods, creating Forgotten Paws CT, a resource to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome stray cats. Fran Skoglund and Tiffany DuBois esti...

It ends a century-long postseason ban originally aimed at allowing the athletes to focus on their schoolwork.

Police are investigating a shooting on Hillcrest Avenue in West Hartford that happened Wednesday evening. One adult suffered non-life-threatening injuries and one adult was taken into custody, according to police. A gun was recovered, they said. Police said the road was closed to car and pedestrian traffic from Lynn Court to Abbotsford Avenue. It h...

Dennis “DJ” Hernandez, brother of the late NFL player Aaron Hernandez, has plead guilty to making threats against the University of Connecticut and Brown University, as well as multiple individuals, last year. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Hernandez could face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to transmitting communicatio...

A man who was found dead in an empty office at a Yale New Haven Health clinic last week was a squatter who had been living there, according to police. Police found the man, 38-year-old Hassau Powell, in an unused office on the sixth floor last Monday. They said Powell had been a squatter at the health clinic on Howard…

Bridgeport police are investigating after windows of several vehicles were smashed and it comes a day after the windows of several cars at the University of Bridgeport were smashed as well. The vandalism on Wednesday morning happened in the 1200 block of Railroad Avenue. Bridgeport Police are asking residents to remove personal and/or expensive ite...

A New York couple is suing a Connecticut-based fertility clinic, claiming it destroyed their embryos by mistake and did not notify them until realizing it years later. Nicole Couture-Gallagher and her husband, Dan Gallagher, shared their story during a virtual news conference and said Illume Fertility confused Nicole with another patient who wanted...

The New York Times has compiled a roundup of what it considers the 26 best dishes in the United States in 2024 and one is from Mystic. The list is based on meals at hundreds of restaurants in 30 states, according to the newspaper. The beef empanadas at the Port of Call in Mystic made the list. The beef empanadas…

Sarah Strong scored a career-high 29 points and Paige Bueckers added 27 to lift No. 4 UConn to a 101-68 victory over Iowa State on Tuesday night in the Basketball Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase. Ashlynn Shade had a career-best 27 points, hitting seven 3-pointers. She got the Huskies (10-1) going, scoring 20 points and making all seven of her…...