New London police are investigating after a man was found dead at McDonald Park Saturday morning.

Police said they were called to the park at Connecticut Avenue and McDonald Street around 8:30 a.m. for a report of a possible deceased person inside a “Porta John.” When they arrived they found a male victim, estimated to be in his late 20s or early 30s, dead inside.

The victim has not been positively identified at this time, police said. There were not obvious signs of trauma, and an autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause of death.

Anyone with information on this is asked to contact the New London Police Department at 860-447-1481. Tips can also be submitted anonymously by texting NLPDTip and the information to 847411.

Florida’s Governor Rick Scott will be in Connecticut today, hoping to recruit Connecticut businesses to move to the Sunshine State.

Scott will arrive in Norwalk this morning for a meeting with Transact Technologies, which manufactures printers for banks and casinos, among others.

Scott tried to convince company executives at Stanley Black & Decker to meet with him as well, but they declined. 

Stanley Black & Decker has been headquartered in New Britain for nearly 175 years.

CFO Donald Allan said the company occasionally receives a phone call from a governor from another state who will want to come visit them.

While the company, which employs 1,600 people in Connecticut and 54,000 globally, said they’re not going anywhere, some Connecticut residents aren’t surprised by Scott’s visit.

“I think they're trying to do the right thing for their state, however we want to make sure we do the right thing for the state of CT,” Allan said in a previous interview.

"We're very vulnerable because we have high taxes and a government right now that's really not inspiring innovation,” said Gerry Goldberg, of West Hartford.

As for Scott’s visit this morning to Transact Technologies in Norwalk, he will be explaining how Florida is an attractive business destination for Connecticut residents and businesses. He last visited the state in 2015.

A Willimantic man was killed in a crash in Chaplin Sunday night.

State police said 47-year-old John Crone was driving east on Route 6 near Cross Street in Chaplin around 10 p.m. According to police, Crone’s car crossed the double yellow line and collided with a vehicle traveling the opposite direction, continued and crashed into another car.

A fourth car was struck by debris from the crash.

Crone was pronounced dead on scene. The occupants of the other vehicles were transported to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

A sailor who grew up in Connecticut is among the dead after a U.S. Navy destroyer collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan.

Sonar Technician 3rd Class Ngoc T Truong Huynh, 25, was one of seven sailors who died onboard the USS Fitzgerald when it collided with another ship on Friday. Huynh went by the name Tan, according to his sister, Lan Huynh.

The cause of the collision is still under investigation.

Huynh's family moved to Connecticut when he was in eighth grade, Lan Huynh told NBC Connecticut Sunday night.

Both siblings went to Plainville High School for a time, but graduated from Watertown High, Lan Huynh said.

Tan Huynh also attended Naugatuck Valley Community College before joining the Navy in 2014.

The family moved to Oklahoma after Huynh enlisted, and that might have led to a delay in notifying them, according to Lan Huynh.

"We got a phone call from the Navy personnel in Connecticut. He was driving and he couldn't find us because he didn't know we had moved to Oklahoma," Lan Huynh said.

She said the family is coping as best they can.

"He was a really quiet person. He was also very nice, very selfless. He helped us, the family with a lot," she said. "He had the brightest smile."

Gov. Dannel Malloy directed U.S. and state flags in Connecticut to fly at half-staff in honor of Sonar Technician Huynh.

Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have called for an investigation into the crash. 

The NBC Connecticut First Alert forecast team has issued a First Alert for the potential for severe weather this afternoon and evening.

A tropical air mass moved in over the weekend.  Today, a cold front will approach, which will trigger strong or even severe storms.

We expect strong winds, hail and very heavy rain.  The National Weather Service has issued a "flash flood watch" for Fairfield, Litchfield, Tolland, New Haven and Hartford counties for this afternoon and evening.  The threat for 1 to 2 inches of rain falling in a short amount of time is possible.

The severe storm prediction center (SPC) has placed most of Connecticut in a “slight” risk of severe weather. A portion of western Connecticut falls in an “enhanced” risk of severe storms. An enhanced risk in western Connecticut means there is a higher threat for storms to become severe.

The timing of the storms should be after 2 p.m.  The best chance for the storms moving through would be after noon and evening from west to east.

Stay with the First Alert forecast team as new data continues to come into the forecast center.

Visit the NBC Connecticut First Alert Weather page for our First Alert Doppler Interactive Radar, your exclusive first alert 10-day forecast and hourly forecast.

Watergate prosecutors had evidence that operatives for then-President Richard Nixon planned an assault on anti-war demonstrators in 1972, including potentially physically attacking Vietnam whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, according to a never-before-published memo obtained by NBC News.

The document, an 18-page 1973 investigative memorandum from the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, sheds new light on how prosecutors were investigating attempts at domestic political violence by Nixon aides, an extremely serious charge.

NBC News is publishing the memo, and an accompanying memo about an interview prosecutors conducted with GOP operative Roger Stone, as part of special coverage for the 45th anniversary of the Watergate break-in.

A plot to physically attack Ellsberg is notable because the former Pentagon official has long alleged that Nixon operatives did more than steal his medical files, the most well-known effort to discredit him. Nixon officials denied his account, however, and there were never any indictments related to the accusation.

Norwalk police are searching for the suspect in a burglary at a local pizza joint.

Police said the suspect broke into Rowayton Pizza on Rowayton Avenue overnight on June 10. The suspect then stole the cash register and fled in a small sedan.

Anyone who recognizes the suspect pictured above is asked to contact Norwalk police at 203-854-3111. Tips can also be submitted anonymously at www.norwalkpd.com or by texting NPD and the information to 274637.

Police say the death of a teenage girl who was assaulted as she walked with friends to her mosque in Fairfax County, Virginia, will not be investigated as a hate crime.  

Police believe a body found Sunday afternoon in a pond in the 21500 block of Ridgetop Circle in Sterling, Virginia, is a 17-year-old girl from Reston who was reported missing in the area after the group of friends scattered during the 3 a.m. assault as they were headed to an all-night prayer session after getting food.

Police spokeswoman Tawny Wright said the girl had been walking back to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center with friends when she got into a dispute with a man in a car early Sunday. The man assaulted her, and she became separated from her friends. 

The girl's name has not been released, but a close family friend told News4 the victim's name is Nabra. 

At some point, residents in the area came across the group of friends and directed them to the mosque, where Nabra was reported missing, the mosque said in a statement Sunday night.

"Immediately thereafter, the ADAMS' personnel notified both Loudon County and Fairfax County authorities who immediately began an extensive search to locate the missing girl," the statement said.

Officers started searching for the girl about 4 a.m. Sunday in the area of Dranesville Road and Woodson Drive in Herndon, Fairfax County Officer Tawny Wright said in a news conference Sunday evening. 

Police searched a wooded area near Dranesville Road and Woodson Drive area in Herndon, Virginia, for several hours. Loudoun County authorities also helped in the investigation because the area borders the county.

During the search, an officer saw a car driving suspiciously in the area and pulled the driver over before taking him into custody.

Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, of Sterling has been arrested and charged with murder, police said.

Police discovered a female body in the pond about 3 p.m. The pond is 2 to 3 miles away from the original altercation happened, Wright said.

Police said a baseball bat was recovered. The exact location where it was found is not known at this time.

"We call on law enforcement to investigate and determine the motive of this crime and prosecute to the full extent of the law," the ADAMS Center statement said.

Authorities say they are not investigating the murder as a hate crime. 

"At this point, there doesn't seem to be indication this was a bias incident. It looks like they got into a dispute over something," Wright said.

The medical examiner's office will confirm the identity of the remains found.

"I just can't think of a worse instance to occur with the loss of a 17-year-old on Father's Day. As a father of a 17-year-old myself, I can't think of anything worse than confronting that on this particular day," Loudoun County Sheriff Michael Chapman said at the news conference.

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring released the following statement Saturday night:

"The ADAMS Center has always welcomed me and so many in Northern Virginia like family. This unspeakable attack feels like an assault on our entire community. Words fail at a time like this, so we'll all have to do the best we can to surround them with the love and support they've always shown each of us."

Rep. Barbara Comstock tweeted: "We stand with the @ADAMSCenter_ community in mourning the vile murder of a beautiful 17-year-old girl."

Stay with News4 and NBCWashington.com for the latest.

An Uber driver in South Florida was given a hefty ticket for violating a county ordinance that speaks less to how she handles her vehicle than other skills.

Cell phone footage obtained exclusively by our sister station Telemundo 51 captured Carmen Echevarria, getting a $250 ticket from a Miami-Dade Police officer outside Miami International Airport. Her violation? Not being able to speak English correctly.

“I felt discriminated against,” Echevarria told the station. “I asked the (passenger sitting in her car) ‘Can you please help translate what she is saying?’ Then she asked why, if I was an Uber driver, I didn’t speak English.“

In May 2016, Miami-Dade County issued a memorandum with rules for transportation network drivers – with one of the requirements being "able to communicate in the English language."

“I told her ‘so sorry, a little English’ then she called the inspector who also confronted me and told me in order to be an Uber driver I need it to speak English”.

Uber issued a statement saying that a statewide ordinance going into effect on July 1 "does not include the language referencing the need to speak English" and they will continue to look into the incident.

The language requirement for drivers in Miami is not listed on the Uber website for the area.

Danbury High School graduation has been postponed due to the weather, according to the Superintendent’s office.

Graduation was originally scheduled for Monday evening, but has been postponed until Tuesday at 5 p.m.

The NBC Connecticut meteorologists have issued a First Alert for the potential for severe weather this afternoon and this evening. The severe storm prediction center (SPC) placed western Connecticut in an “enhanced” risk for severe storms.

For more information, click here. 

Someone posted threats directed at President Donald Trump at Morley Elementary School in West Hartford Thursday and police said they are looking for a person of interest. 

A person of interest was seen in video riding a mountain bike onto the property on Bretton Road, according to police. He is balding, appears to be in his 30s or 40s, and was wearing a Red Sox T-shirt. 

Police said he had a small brown and white mix-breed dog with him. 

Several areas were damaged with anti-Trump writings and threats directed at the president, according to a news release from police.

Anyone with information is asked to call the West Hartford Police Department at (860) 523-5203.

The Dow Jones industrial average continued its march upward Monday, opening at a record high that tops last week's milestone of 21,391.97, CNBC reported.

The S&P 500 opened up 0.4 percent, leaving it just below a record of its own. And the Nasdaq composite rose as well, nearly 1 percent.

"I don't know where the optimism is coming from. That's not to say we should be negative. I just don't see any reason for excessive optimism or pessimism right now," said Randy Frederick, vice president of trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab.

Technology stocks were bouncing back from a rough week, with Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet all up about 1 percent in early trading.

This wet spring was supposed to help mitigate the massive gypsy moth caterpillar problem in the southeastern part of the state. The rain triggers a fungus that kills the caterpillars, but now experts are saying it’s working slower than expected. 

This year’s gypsy moth caterpillar outbreak has been “pretty extensive and severe,” State Entomologist Kirby Stafford III said in an email to NBC Connecticut. While the rains have been ideal for the gypsy moth caterpillar-killing fungus, it’s been slow to take effect. 

But he does have spotty reports of caterpillars dying from that fungus. 

So Tim Day’s family, who lives in Gales Ferry, took matters into their own hands. 

“They sprayed insecticide on the trees two days ago and then basically thousands of gypsy moth caterpillars fell out of the trees,” Day said. 

Beverly Joyce, of Ledyard, has seen her trees dying. She said her husband has used a leaf blower to try and get rid of the caterpillars – and even got a rash from them. 

“It’s been bad. Our trees have been chewed. There’s nothing left of them,” Joyce said. 

It’s not ideal for someone who loves to be under a shady tree in the summer. 

“You hide inside when you can,” Joyce added. 

Trees are severely stressed due to the drought and the caterpillars, making them less likely to recover, according to Stafford. Some have already died. 

But he said there’s still a chance the fungus will kill more of the older caterpillars as they move around. 

Joyce is hoping her method will kill them, too. 

“Bug zapper. Once they turn to the moth mode, we’ll use a bug zapper and hopefully get rid of them,” she said. 

As for next year’s gypsy moth caterpillar outlook, Stafford said he and his team will look at what the adult moth population looks like and conduct an egg mass survey again in winter. 

The United States Coast Guard rescued a group of schoolchildren from a grounded Schooner near the mouth of the Mystic River Sunday evening.

USCG officials said they were called around 6:15 p.m. for a report of a 126-foot Schooner with 17 passengers and five crew members ran aground. The Schooner was a charter boat carrying seventh-grade students from New York who were on a field trip. The 14 students and three chaperones were safely transferred to Noank shipyard in Groton.

No injuries or pollution were reported.

USCG Sector Long Island Sound will investigate to ensure the vessel is safe before it can operate again.

Norwalk firefighters came to the rescue of some feathered friends that were trapped in a storm drain Monday.

Members of Norwalk Fire Department Ladder Co. #1 rescued 11 ducklings from the drain while the mother duck looked on. The babies then safely continued on their way.

A special congressional election in Georgia is currently billing at an estimated $40 million and counting between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel, reported NBC News. 

The 6th congressional district has been held by Newt Gingrich, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, who left the seat open when he joined Trump’s Cabinet. 

So when the contest heated up, people paid attention — partly because it is seen as a referendum on Trump and possibly an early indicator of how the midterm elections could go next year.

An Illinois native was biking across the country to help put kids through college, but his ride was cut short when he was hit by a vehicle in Alabama.

“The road was bad, and there were no shoulders,” rider Tim Lalla from Orland Park told NBC 5. “A man in a Ford F-150 crested a hill and hit me going pretty good.”

Lalla was riding his bike in Alabama as he traversed the country going to all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums. He kept fans apprised of his adventures on the Biking for Baseball website and Facebook page, the same page where he informed fans of his journey's "devastating" end.

Lalla suffered serious injuries in the accident, including minor fractures in his spine, a broken neck, and facial fractures. He also lost several teeth in the accident, he said. 

“The first thing I remember is waking up on the side of the road,” he said. “It’s tough waking up knowing that the dream of a lifetime is over.”

The journey was supposed to end at Chicago’s Wrigley Field later this summer.

“This trip has been absolutely incredible. I can’t say how devastated I am that this is how it ends,” Lalla wrote on Facebook. "The places, stories, but especially the wonderful people I’ve met across the country have made this adventure amazing.”

Lalla also encouraged people to donate money to the cause, which helps to fund scholarships and mentoring programs for kids interested in attending college. The $160,000 goal that the organization set was to send two more kids to college, and they had raised over $12,000 at the time of Lalla’s accident.

“Even though this trip has ended on a sour note, it would really give this journey a sense of fulfillment in my eyes to reach the goal and give this journey the ending it deserves,” he said. 

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching Long Island Sound near Stratford after a kayak was found. It’s not clear if someone went overboard, but they are searching for a possible person in the water. 

The Coast Guard received a call around 8:30 a.m. from someone who saw the boat and the red 14-foot Carolina fishing kayak was located four miles off the coast of Bridgeport, in the Stratford Shoal Middle Ground, according to the Coast Guard. 

There is fishing gear on the boat, and Coast Guard officials believe the kayak left from the Northpoint, New York area.

Anyone with information on the owner of the kayak or the person's contact should call 203-468-4421,

Two people are accused of robbing a pizza deliveryman at gunpoint in New Haven early Monday morning.

Police arrested Amar Ju Walton, 26, of West Haven and Soyna Bracy, 37, of New Haven, on robbery-related charges.

According to police, officers were called to Foote Street around 1:15 a.m. for a robbery complaint. The victim told police he was making a delivery for Alpha Delta Pizza when the robbery occurred.

The victim said he parked the car and started walking toward a woman, later identified as Bracy, that he thought was the customer. As he approached, he saw two men coming toward him from Ashmun Street. One man split off and began walking away, but the second continued to approach.

The victim told police suspected he was being set up and tried to return to the car, but the approaching man pulled a gun. The suspect, later identified as Walton, ordered the victim across the street and demanded his cash.

The victim handed over $200 he had on him and Walton and Bracy both got into the victim’s car and drove off. The victim was not harmed.

Officers spotted the stolen vehicle around 3 a.m. and began several pursuits across New Haven and West Haven. Police eventually found the car parked at 782 First Avenue in West Haven.

Bracy was located a short time later with the keys to the stolen car in her purse. Walton was later arrested after a brief foot pursuit.

Walton was charged with first-degree robbery, second-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny and robbery, and interfering with police. Bracy was charged with second-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny and conspiracy to commit burglary.

Police said both suspects have criminal histories.

Snap, the company behind the social media app Snapchat, saw a spike in its shares on Monday after the announcement of a new deal with Time Warner.

The deal is valued at $100 million, people familiar with the matter told CNBC. The Wall Street Journal, which previously reported the news, said that talent like Ellen DeGeneres and Samantha Bee could be part of the arrangement.

Time Warner will make shows such as scripted dramas and comedies for the ephemeral messaging and augmented reality platform. Snapchat will also get ads from HBO, Turner and Warner Bros. over the next two years, the companies said in a statement.

The number of shows each day on Snapchat will grow from one per day to three per day by the end of this year, the companies said.