Local

New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood is on the path for a major transformation. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday at 26 Charles Street in New Haven to celebrate the upcoming project, CommCAT Place on Dixwell, a project by ConnCORP. “All these people had something to do with us being here, it’s not just about me, it’s about al...

Karoline Ashford used to live in New London public housing and feels like she won the lottery when she was accepted into the Bayonet Apartments. “It’s much better for your mental health. You feel better and you feel like a person,” Ashford said. Bayonet Appartments is a 28-unit mixed-income development built by Eastern Connecticut Housing Opp...

New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart and her wife Marta Xargay received threatening homophobic anonymous emails after Game 1 of the WNBA Finals. The emails went directly to Xargay’s account which was a bit unnerving for the couple. The two-time MVP said she notified the team and they escalated it to security. Stewart said Xargay has filed a compla...

The organization North Haven Pride is calling on North Haven Public Schools to show more support for the LGBTQ+ community. It comes after a public comment session surrounding a gender non-conforming substitute teacher during a Board of Education meeting last week. A non-binary substitute teacher and a cisgender educator allegedly used the children&...

A 44-year-old man is in critical condition after being hit by an SUV in Bridgeport early Tuesday morning. It happened just before 3 a.m. on Chopsey Hill Road, according to police. Officers responded to the scene after receiving a 911 call from someone who said a man had been run over by an SUV and that he was lying in…

On Saturday, Love Hartford Week kicked off at Colt Park. This is the fourth year the weeklong initiative to clean up and beautify the city has happened. “There are so many people in this community who care about their city,” said KNOX executive director Patrick Doyle. “Who care about their neighborhoods, who care about their parks and public spaces...

Police have identified the man who was found dead after a house fire in Bloomfield last week and detectives are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the fire. Firefighters and police responded to the home on Ivory Road around 2:30 p.m. Friday and firefighters contained the fire to an upstairs bathroom. After the fire was extinguished, How...

Someone caused $1 million worth of damage to several construction vehicles and work vehicles that were set on fire or vandalized off Interstate 84 in Farmington and state police are trying to figure out who did it. State police said Hammonasset Construction contacted them around 10:46 a.m. Monday to report that several vehicles that were parked in ...

A new report indicates decades of anti-tobacco message appears to be getting through. Nationwide, the number of young people using e-cigarettes dropped by half a million over the last year, according to the National Youth Tobacco Survey. In Connecticut, 11.5 percent of high school students reported vaping in the last 30 days, according to a su...

Three veterans whose cremains went unclaimed will be honored with a military ceremony on Wednesday at the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown. PFC Mario Nello DeVito, U.S. Army 1945-47, is one of the three veterans to be honored. He died in Bristol in 2000 at the age of 72. PVT James Dickinson, U.S. Army 1941-43, died in West Haven in…...

A man who is accused of luring a girl who was under the age of 13 into his pickup, kidnapping her and sexually assaulting her in Waterbury is also accused of sexually assaulting a child in New Haven 10 years ago, according to New Haven police. New Haven police said they started an investigation in April into sexual assaults around…

Waterbury police have arrested a man who is accused of luring a girl who was under the age of 13 into his pickup, kidnapping her and sexually assaulting her. Police said they responded to the area of Fulton Park around 7 p.m. on Wednesday and determined that the girl had been lured into a pickup truck driven by a man….

A motorcyclist has serious injuries after a crash on Route 159 in Suffield on Tuesday morning. Police responded to Route 159 around 7 a.m. for a report of a crash. Investigators said a motorcyclist was traveling south on Route 159 while a car was traveling north in the same area. The car turned left while trying to pull into a…