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A minor has been arrested for allegedly making a shooting threat from the stands of the Norwich Free Academy football game on Friday night. Norwich police said they were alerted by the FBI around 8:50 p.m. The agent told police that they discovered a Snapchat photo from a spectator in the stands with an active threat to commit a shooting…....

People in the Meriden community are rallying around the family of 1-year-old Ella Salgado, who was killed in a car crash on the Berlin Turnpike on Saturday. One restaurant, Moose’s Burgers in Meriden, is kicking off a fundraiser for the month to help the family. “It’s a reminder that we need to be precautious sometimes when the light turns......

Police have arrested a Massachusetts man and charged him with sexually assaulting a woman in a hot tub at a home in Tolland on Friday. Luis Alberto Elicier, 42, of Springfield, was taken into custody in Enfield Monday morning. According to state police, Elicier was at a home in Tolland with three other people, when he became aggressive with the&#82...

Fall is here, so are the apples and the Southington Apple Harvest Festival starts on Friday. The six-day event happens over two weekends, Oct. 4-6, and Oct. 11-13, on and around the Southington Town Green. The festival goes from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4 and Oct. 11; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5…

A dire situation still unfolding across the southeast. Four days after Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region as a category 4 hurricane, millions are without power, there’s a lack of water and fuel and food is scarce. And people from our state are heading south to try to help.  “Our help and our scope of assistance...

Two minors who are accused of attempting to carjack someone in New Britain over the weekend have been arrested. Newington police responded to a report of a crash involving a stolen vehicle on Carr Avenue and John Street on Sunday around 5:20 p.m. It was reported that an unoccupied, stolen vehicle was pushed by minors through a fence and into…...

The first locally acquired case of an emerging tick-borne disease has been reported in Connecticut. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station said this is the first locally acquired human case of Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis in Connecticut and it’s also the first report of the disease in the northeast. Dr. Peter Krause, a Yale senior rese...

Police have identified a 1-year-old girl who was killed in a multi-vehicle crash on the Berlin Turnpike over the weekend. The crash involving three cars happened just before 3 p.m. near the intersection of North Colony Road. One of the vehicles reportedly rolled over during the crash and multiple people were ejected from another vehicle. According ...

Emergency safety work is being done at Coe Pond Dam in Ansonia and the work is expected to continue for around two weeks, according to the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments. The Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments said an engineering report published in March determined that the dam is in poor condition and the deficiencies would pose an ...

An Uber Eats driver was robbed at knifepoint in New Haven last week and police are investigating the incident. Police said an Uber Eats driver was approached by five to six men in the 200 block of George Street on Thursday shortly before 7 p.m. According to investigators, one of the men showed a knife, demanded the food and then…

An 87-year-old woman from Redding and a man from Bridgeport have both died after a fiery, head-on crash in Easton over the weekend. Officers received several 911 calls about a serious, two-car crash on Route 58 near Center Road around 7:30 p.m. Saturday Once in the area, police said they found one vehicle on fire and another vehicle with serious&#8...

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on Interstate 84 East in Hartford on Monday morning and there are injuries, according to state police. State police said the crash happened near exit 46 in Hartford around 6:57 a.m. The extent of the injuries is unknown.

An investigation is underway after a Yale graduate student was robbed and restrained, according to Yale police. They said two masked males restrained the student at 1000 Chapel St. around 11:16 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21 and took his wallet. The robbers showed no weapons and they ran down Chapel Street toward High Street. The student was not hurt a...

Teachers in New Haven are pushing for more federal funding for education as pandemic relief runs out on Monday and they held rallies at three schools in the city. “We already didn’t have enough. Like, we already don’t have the things that we need to meet our students’ needs and to like deliver the world-class education that ...