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Multiple people are now displaced after a fire broke out on Park Road in Hamden Tuesday night. Fire officials said they responded to the 2-alarm fire at 295 Park Rd. shortly after 8:45 p.m. No injuries were reported, and the Red Cross is helping seven people who are displaced. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Solo Ball scored 10 of his 12 points in the first half to lead second-ranked UConn to an 81-46 victory over East Texas A&M on Tuesday night. Alex Karaban and Liam McNeeley added 11 points apiece, and Aidan Mahaney finished with 10 for the Huskies (4-0). Tarris Reed Jr. had nine points, 10 rebounds and three blocks off the bench….

Starting next month, middle and high school students in Middletown will need to lock up their phones during the school day. The school district said after the Thanksgiving break, students will need to put their phones in magnetic pouches when they walk into school. They can’t be unlocked until the end of the day. A spokesperson said the new.....

Crews are working to repair a water main break on King Arthur Drive in East Lyme Tuesday night. The break was reported just after 8:30 p.m. Public safety officials said it happened in the area of Starbucks. Residents and businesses in the area will be impacted as repairs are made. It’s unknown how long repairs will take. No additional......

One year ago, 15-year-old Elijah-Jay Mariano Rivera tragically passed away after going into sudden cardiac arrest at football practice. “When I found out this is what happened with Eli, I was confused,” father Jay Rivera said. “He was healthy. You look at him and you go, there’s no way you can see that there was something wrong with him.”...

Frontier customers could soon be owed some cash. On Tuesday, the Office of Consumer Counsel (OCC) said a settlement with the communications company has been approved after Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) found Frontier repeatedly failed to meet the state’s quality of service standards. As part of the settlement, customers impacted by a...

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,…...