Rocky Hill

State police have arrested a New Hampshire man who is accused of driving 114 miles per hour on Interstate 91 in Rocky Hill. A state trooper was working a speed enforcement detail when he saw a driver in a black Subaru sedan going extremely fast on I-91 North near exit 23 in Rocky Hill around 10:20 a.m. Tuesday, according to…

State police have arrested a man who is accused of going over 100 miles per hour on Interstate 91 South in Rocky Hill over the weekend. A trooper reported seeing a Nissan Rogue going faster than the speed of traffic on I-91 South near exit 23 on Saturday around 9 a.m. The vehicle was estimated to be going 105 mph,…

Main Street in Rocky Hill is expected to be closed for several hours on Monday morning and may impact the morning commute. Fire officials said Main Street is closed to both northbound and southbound traffic near Hillside Avenue as crews work to replace a utility pole that was hit overnight. The driver involved in the crash reportedly suffered minor injuries…

Three veterans whose cremated remains that were never claimed, funeral was held in their honor.

An 11-year-old Rocky Hill girl who had been missing since early Monday morning has been found safe. Police said she was last seen around 7:30 a.m. in the area of Rachel Drive and the Rocky Hill police and fire departments were searching the immediate area with help from a K9 team. The East Hartford K-9 Unit found her safe, police…

The mother of a Bloomfield woman killed in a crash on I-91 last week by an alleged impaired driver is calling on police to charge the accused with a more serious punishment.

The mother of a Bloomfield woman killed in a crash on I-91 last week by an alleged impaired driver is calling on police to charge the accused with a more serious punishment. Jada Upshaw, 26, a soon-to-be mother of two was killed in a three-car crash on Friday, October 4, just before 9 p.m. Her mother, Kimberly Upshaw, tells NBC…

Officials say three cars rolled over, and one was completely on fire.

A woman from Bloomfied has died after being injured in a multi-vehicle incident in Rocky Hill, according to state police. On Friday night, fire officials in Rocky Hill said multiple people were injured following a crash on I-91 southbound on Friday night. All lanes of the southbound portion of the highway were shut down on Friday night as police investigated…

A water main break has closed multiple roads in Rocky Hill on Tuesday morning. The water main break is on Waters Avenue and that road is closed. Police said the east side of Deming Road and Starr Drive, along with the west side of Barry Place and Caliber Lane are also closed. Authorities did not give an estimate for how…

Firefighters came to the rescue when a family’s cat got stuck under the front seat of their car at a gas station in Rocky Hill on Friday night. The unusual rescue happened at the Shell gas station at 1380 Silas Deane Highway around 7:43 p.m. on Friday. The mission? Free a large cat that was stuck under the front seat…

Two people are injured after a head-on crash in Rocky Hill Tuesday night. The fire department said it happened on Silas Deane Highway. Two cars collided and two people sustained non-life threatening injuries. Some oil spilled and made it into a nearby storm sewer after the crash. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) was called in. No additional…

A 15-year-old is recovering after being found unconscious in a swimming pool at a Rocky Hill apartment complex Thursday evening. Rocky Hill police said officers were dispatched just before 7 p.m. Thursday to a reported near-drowning at the Concierge Apartments on Cold Spring Road. Bystanders had pulled an unconscious 15-year-old from the water and had begun performing CPR, according to…

The Asante-Boateng family’s recent visit to a village in Ghana motivated them to help the teachers and students who were learning out of a deteriorated school building. 

A family from Rocky Hill is proving a difference can be made no matter where you are in the world.  On Saturday, Kwasi Asante-Boateng and Ama Asante-Boateng along with their children and church members of the Dimension Abundant Life Ministries Church in Rocky Hill, worked together to load a 40-foot shipping container with Ghana as its final destination. The...

A man from Portland has died after a crash on Interstate 91 North in Rocky Hill early Saturday morning. State police said 44-year-old Marcos Benitez Rengifo was driving near exit 24 around 3 a.m. when he veered into the right shoulder and hit the guardrail. During the crash, authorities said Benitez Rengifo was ejected from his vehicle. He was pronounced…

A person was struck by a vehicle that was working on road construction in Rocky Hill on Thursday morning, according to police. Police said a 911 call came in just before 11:30 a.m. reporting that a person was struck on Winter Lane. Based on the preliminary investigation, police determined that the vehicle was “engaged in roadway construction” when the crash…

Police are looking for at least two people who stole two jet skis from a home in Rocky Hill early Wednesday morning. It happened around 3:30 a.m. on Main Street, according to police. Surveillance video shows what appears to be two men back a pickup truck in a driveway and attach a trailer that was carrying the two jet skis….

Boaters were rescued when their boat lost power in the Connecticut River in Rocky Hill as storms approached on Wednesday night. The Rocky Hill Fire Department said they received a call for a water rescue at 9:47 p.m. and responded three minutes later. Marine 1 was also brought in for the rescue. The fire department said that Marine 1 normally…

Farms along the Connecticut River and across the state are still making a comeback from last year’s devastating July flooding that ruined millions of dollars worth of crops. Some farmers are even reporting this year is off to a wet start. “We are going to give it everything we got this year,” said Lisa Gilbert with Gilbert farms. They...