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On Monday, a group of Southington residents gathered outside of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. racial equity mural on North Main Street to bring light to what they are calling an injustice. “Today I stand in resistance and in grief for the kids whose pictures are coming down off that mural and what that says to them,” Southington resident…...

Wrong-way detection systems continue to roll out across the state in hot spots for wrong-way drivers. This weekend, another driver was killed in a wrong-way crash in Waterbury, bringing the total to 13 wrong-way crash deaths this year. “Just a usual commute back home, just getting dark,” Mark Vecchitto said of his commute from work a week ago. He w...

Police are investigating a vandalism incident at a store that sells Trump merchandise in Vernon. According to the manager of the Trump for New England store at 154 Talcottville Road, two people sprayed graffiti on the store sometime around 2:30 a.m. Monday. Manager Ken Krajewski said he believes the suspects are the same two people were in the stor...

An Orange police officer that fired his gun during a violent encounter in the parking lot of a department store last year was found unjustified in his actions, which could have endangered human life, according to the Office of the Inspector General.

Two people were taken to the hospital with serious injuries after a motorcycle crash on Route 63 in Litchfield. State police responded to the crash scene, near Webster Road, around 3:35 p.m. on Monday. Fire officials said two people were taken to separate hospitals with serious injuries. A LifeStar helicopter was called to the scene, state police s...

State police are searching for a car that collided with a motorcycle in Woodstock and then took off Monday afternoon. It happened on Route 169 around 2:30 p.m., according to state police. The motorcyclist suffered injuries, but the extent of those injuries weren’t immediately known. Police described the vehicle that left the scene as a blue S...

All buybuy BABY locations will be closed by Oct. 18-31, including Connecticut’s West Hartford location. The last Connecticut store can be found at 1433 New Britain Ave, West Hartford, CT 06110, will be closing its doors. This comes after years of discussion of Bed Bath and Beyond owner, discussing on selling buybuy BABY. The store will contin...

A 22-year-old Norwich man was going more than 120 miles per hour in Bozrah on Sunday evening, according to Connecticut State Police. A state trooper was conducting speed checks on Route 2 around 6:52 p.m. and saw a Range Rover traveling at a high speed. The state trooper clocked the speed at 120 miles per hour and stopped the driver,…

A man who was wanted in Massachusetts is in custody after U.S. Marshals found him at a secluded campsite in Woodstock, Connecticut, where officials believe he had been hiding for months. The 40-year-old man was wanted by police in Franklin, Mass. and New Bedford, Mass. on charges including child pornography, photographing intimate parts of a child,...

A motorcyclist has serious injuries after he hit the back of a car in Preston on Sunday evening and the motorcycle caught fire. State police said the motorcyclist, a 30-year-old Norwich man, hit the back of a 2011 Lexus RX 350 on Route 2A in Montville at 6:33 p.m. No additional information was available.

Police said there have been several car break-ins in Suffield over the last week and they are urging residents not to leave any valuables in their vehicles. The thieves have broken windows to get into vehicles if they see property inside. They have left when they do not see anything in the vehicles or when sensors turn lights on. Police…...

Crews have extricated a worker who was trapped under rocks in the basement of a multifamily home in Bridgeport after a collapse. The home, located in the 1000 block of Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport, was the scene of a fire around five years ago, fire officials said. It is now uninhabited and under construction. According to online assessor records...

East Haven police have arrested a man who they said pointed a gun at a Home Depot employee after stealing merchandise from the store. Officers responded to the Home Depot at 75 Frontage Road in East Haven around 7:43 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11 to investigate after a shoplifting case escalated. Police said the shoplifter pointed a handgun at a…...

Firefighters battled a brush fire at a historic cemetery on the Hartford and Wethersfield line early Monday morning. The District Chief of the Hartford Fire Department said they received a call about a fire at Cedar Hill Cemetery around 1:36 a.m. and found fire on the Wethersfield side of the cemetery. Hartford fire officials said the Wethersfield ...