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The South Windsor man convicted of killing his wife in 2021 was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in prison. Tahj Hutchinson pleaded guilty to charges including first-degree manslaughter, risk of injury to a minor, and tampering with evidence. He was facing a maximum sentence of 30 years. He admitted to killing his wife, Jessica Edwards, in May 2021 fo...

NBC Connecticut Investigates has learned of another charge that could get tacked onto your electric bills just months into substantial rate hikes. It involves an expensive project Eversource said it needs for reliability. Consumer advocates from Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island have said the approval process for thi...

Connecticut’s Medicaid expenses are on pace for a $220 million budget shortfall. A policy extending coverage to undocumented children 15 and under is one of the reasons. The Office of Policy and Management, or OPM, doesn’t have any estimate for how much extra the policy is costing, but Democrats are standing by it. “We can be either proactive and h...

Teen vaping is a continued concern in Connecticut with youth finding many ways to access nicotine, even though it is illegal to sell to those under 21. The state does compliance checks at stores all over Connecticut year-round. One of the most recent inspections happened in Southington, where six out of 12 stores were found to sell vapes to underag...

Duane Gray says the priest at his Connecticut parish began sexually abusing him around 1974, when he was 12 years old. He told his parents, but they didn’t believe it and beat him repeatedly. Then they kicked him out of the house when he was about 16, and he found himself living in the woods. Gray, 62, came forward publicly…

A man is in critical condition after being hit by a car in New Haven early Tuesday morning. New Haven police said they were called to the area of Forbes Avenue and Woodward Avenue at about 12:20 a.m. Responding officers found a man in his 30s who had been struck by a vehicle and suffered serious injuries. The man was…

A woman and her 4-month-old son are dead after a reported drive-by shooting on New Britain Avenue in Hartford Tuesday afternoon. The police department said a triple shooting broke out in broad daylight near the corners of Hillside Avenue and Zion Street just before 3 p.m. Authorities said a person dropped off three people at the hospital. A 20-year...

Greenwich police are investigating after a young child allegedly hit another kid during a game of tag because of her religion. The police department said the parent of an elementary school-aged child reported that her kid was hit in the face because of her Jewish faith. Another kid appears to have struck the child at a local party on Friday,…...

A man is accused of having a loaded handgun inside of his carry-on bag at Bradley International Airport earlier this week. State police at Bradley International Airport responded to the TSA security checkpoint for a possible handgun found in a passenger’s carry-on bag on Monday around 4:30 a.m. TSA personnel reported finding a gun in a backpa...

If you’ve noticed a haze or smoky smell in the air Tuesday, it is because of a large brush fire burning in Massachusetts, according to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. The fire is burning in Great Barrington and the smoke is traveling south into Connecticut. Current weather conditions are keeping the smoke close to the g...

A mom who left four kids home alone without food in Vernon has been found in New York and has been arrested, according to police. Earlier this month, officers responded to Terrace Drive in Vernon for a welfare check. When officers arrived at the home on November 8, they said they found four kids under the age of 11 that…

A new nonstop flight to Miami will begin flying out of Bradley International Airport in the new year. Frontier Airlines is launching nonstop service between Bradley and Miami International Airport starting on February 13, 2025, according to the Connecticut Airport Authority. The flights will be twice a week. “For both Hartford-area consumers lookin...

A local couple is reviving a beloved restaurant chain and bringing it back in their hometown of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Joe and Nachi Shea have purchased the rights to The Ground Round — a casual American restaurant chain that had over 200 locations across the United States at its peak. The brand waned over the years, and it’s gotten down ...

A dog has died after a fire at an apartment complex in Groton on Monday night. When crews arrived to the three-story apartment complex in the 600 block of Meridian Street Ext., they said there were no visible signs of fire or smoke from the outside. The fire alarm system had been activated and there was reportedly a smell of…