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Job Corps Centers across the country are scrambling after the Department of Labor announced a pause in operations on Friday.  The DOL said the “pause of operations at all contractor-operated Job Corps Centers will occur by June 30, 2025.”  In Connecticut, the announcement will impact the New Haven and Hartford location.  Juvenel Levros, the ce...

In April, Blue Hills Civic Association (BHCA) employees were abruptly laid off, leaving many of its community programs in limbo. “We do a lot of work across the city of Hartford,” said community organizer and former BHCA employee Kelvin Lovejoy. “Being involved with various issues from flooding, safety, education, right, youth development.” The org...

“It is clear this is a targeted attack, and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism,” FBI Special Agent in Denver Mark Machalek said. A man is now facing hate crime charges for Sunday night’s attack in Boulder, Colorado. This, after police said he used a makeshift flamethrower on a group of people who were calling...

New air traffic recordings captured part of the race to rescue two people on board a small plane that crashed in Long Island Sound near Branford. The U.S. Coast Guard tells NBC Connecticut it was a 41-year-old father and his 17-year-old daughter on the plane. Among those realizing something might be wrong was a flight instructor and student flying....

The Commadore Hull Bridge, a section of Route 8 that connects Shelton and Derby, is getting repairs after a discovery was made by inspectors with the Connecticut Department of Transportation. The DOT makes clear the bridge is safe for travel. In a statement, the DOT said during a special inspection ahead of scheduled work, inspectors noticed furthe...

A hurricane is an amazing weather phenomenon. It begins with a few clusters of thunderstorms. If conditions are ripe, those few thunderstorms can explosively develop into a major hurricane within a matter of a few days. Warmer sea surface temperatures, due to climate change, are the biggest influence on hurricanes. NASA estimates 90% of the excess ...

There is a new state record for the largest freshwater fish caught in Connecticut. Rafal Wlazlo caught a 45-pound, 8-ounce Common Carp at Lake Lillinonah in May, setting a new state record. This is the largest freshwater fish on record, according to the state Department of Energy & Environmental Protection website. Wlazlo, who lives in West Bab...

XL Center in Hartford is now the PeoplesBank Arena. The naming rights were announced during a news conference on Monday afternoon and they are now in effect. This is a 10-year partnership, according to Oak View Group. The building was called the Civic Center when it opened in 1975.   In its heyday, the Civic Center was home to the......

Connecticut has claimed the title of Pizza Capital of the U.S. and now it’s getting saucy as the state boasts about the title on new billboards in New York. The billboards will dare New Yorkers to admit Connecticut has better pizza than them. The billboards put up by the Connecticut Office of Statewide Marketing & Tourism are in iconic......

State police said a motorcycle crash caused serious injuries over the weekend. State police said on Sunday that troopers responded to Lead Mine Brook Road and serious injuries were reported. No additional information was released.

The New York Liberty matched their own WNBA record by hitting 19 3-pointers in a 100-52 rout of the Connecticut Sun on Sunday. The margin of victory was the second largest in league history, falling short of the 59-point record held by Minnesota in a win over Indiana in 2017. It did set the franchise mark for biggest win, eclipsing…

A Cash5 player won the $100,000 jackpot on Sunday. The winning numbers were 6-12-17-27-33. The ticket that won on Sunday, June 1 was sold at Stop & Shop at 215 Glastonbury Boulevard in Glastonbury. The last time someone won the Cash5 jackpot was on May 27.

Smoke from wildfires in Canada could affect us here in Connecticut this week.   The wildfires are sending smoke into the lower 48 and the lowest level smoke is out in the western Great Lakes and the Midwest. As the jet stream unbuckles this week, it will allow some of the smoke to move east. Milky skies and orange sunsets…

Skeletal remains that were found in Thompson last year have been identified as a missing Plainfield woman. Police said the skeletal remains were found on Lowell Davis Road in Thompson on October 17, 2024. About a year before that, Plainfield police received a missing person report for 33-year-old Alicia Balderston. The report, which was made on Oct...