A Bridgeport man is accused of stabbing his teenage niece to death at an apartment on Fairfield Avenue Monday night.

Police said the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Richard Segabiro, called 911 around 10 p.m. and said he had killed his 16-year-old daughter.

Police responded to his apartment at 2292 Fairfield Ave. and found Segabiro covered in flood and his niece, who he raised as his daughter, dead in the bathroom. She had multiple stab wounds, police said.

Segabiro was arrested and confessed to the stabbing, according to police.

Police said that Segabiro’s wife and three other young children were in the home at the time of the stabbing but were not hurt.

Segabiro was charged with murder and held on a $1 million bond.

Authorities in Florida say Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the scene of last week's deadly shooting rampage, will remain closed Tuesday and Wednesday. 

The statement released by Broward County Public Schools said Monday it hopes to resume classes at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 27 following a devastating shooting.

Staff members will return to the school on Friday with the day "dedicated to meeting staff members’ needs, with a variety of support services."

On Sunday, the school will hold a voluntary campus orientation for all students and their parents or guardians from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. – where support services will also be available.

“Our hearts remain with the victims and families impacted by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy,” BCPS said in a previous statement. “Across our community, the difficult and emotional recovery process continues, as we struggle to understand this senseless act of violence and find a way to move forward.”

BCPS said it hopes to open the school on a modified schedule Feb. 27.

Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie described the shooting as a "nightmare."

“It is the worst nightmare you can ever have. It’s one of those things you pray you never live to see and experience. And something of this magnitude it’s really hard to put into words. Some days I wake up and hope I can reverse time…is this really happening?” Runcie said.

Runcie said he "loves" the movement started by students to push for gun reform.

"I love it. It seems like we’ve been preparing our kids for some day really stepping up and taking charge," Runcie added. “I’m not in favor of arming teachers with guns, I’m not in favor of arming teachers with guns. The answers can’t be that we are going to introduce more guns in society. We have more guns in this society than we have people.”

A family is waiting for answers after a huge tree fell on a mausoleum in Hartford over the weekend.

The O’Connell family said the tree fell on their mausoleum at the Cedar Hill Cemetery sometime over the weekend. The family isn’t sure exactly how much it will cost to make repairs. The original structure cost thousands.

The family told NBC Connecticut they had previous concerns about the tree because of rot and some kind of infestation. They’ve reached out to the cemetery to see if they’ll cover the cost of repairs.

Mary Trizzino, a 65-year-old math teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, had been trained how to secure her classroom during an active shooter situation. But when a gunman actually opened fire in the halls Wednesday, she "broke protocol" to keep kids safe.

Trizzino said she opened her classroom door — something she was trained never to do — to let a group of children and an adult shelter inside. Then, in those harrowing moments that followed, she turned to comfort the students.

"I turned to the kids and I said, 'I want you to know that if anybody comes through that door to harm you, ... they will have to shoot me to get to you, and maybe that will give you a chance,'" Trizzino said on the "Today" show Tuesday, nearly one week after alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students and teachers at the South Florida school.

Known as "Momma Trizzino" to her students, the teacher is just one year away from retirement. She huddled in her classroom with the kids for 90 minutes until a SWAT team came for them. 

The gunman had been walking through the next building over, where English teacher Dara Hass had watched her students take some of the first bullets. In an emotional interview on "Today," Hass described the moments she saw 14-year-old Alex Schachter lying on her classroom floor.

"I went to shut the blinds, and then I turned to say 'Turn the lights off.' When I turned I saw my student. I saw him and he … he was bleeding," Hass said.

"I called 9-1-1 and they asked if I could get to my student that was injured. And I couldn't get over to him."

Schachter died in Hass' classroom, along with fellow freshmen Alyssa Alhadeff and Alaina Petty.

"It's so hard to grasp that I lost their sweet faces," the teacher said.

Like Trizzino, Hass also worked to bring peace to the children she had been educating.

"I figured if I have to go, I'm gonna hug my students closer," Hass said. "And I kissed my students on their head, trying to comfort them."

Hass mourned the young lives she lost that day, saying, "It's not fair that they had to be taken." Honoring Schachter, she read a poem he had written for one of her homework assignments. Because he would never get to submit it to Hass, Schachter's dad had texted the piece to her.

Hass read from her phone:
"Life is like a rollercoaster
It has some ups and downs
Eventually it all comes to a stop
You won't know when or how
But you will know that it will be time to get off and start new"

Hass, Trizzino and the other Stoneman Douglas staff members are scheduled to return to the school Friday for a day "dedicated to meeting staff members’ needs, with a variety of support services," according to a school statement. Students are set to return on Feb. 27 with a modified schedule and support services available.

In the meantime, about 100 Stoneman Douglas students are in Tallahassee Wednesday to meet with the state's Republican-held legislature and rally for sweeping change to Florida's gun-control laws.

A 6-year-old geography expert from Stratford will be back on Ellen this afternoon and this time he will be identifying bodies of water from photographs, including one right over the Connecticut border in Massachusetts that several people cannot even pronounce -- Lake Chaubunagungamaug.

In addition to his expertise in geography, Nate Seltzer is also an aspiring screenwriter and wrote a little movie about a pirate.

Using storyboards Nate drew, Ellen created his story a little movie and his reaction is something you do not want to miss.

You can watch the show in its entirety a 2 p.m. Tuesday on NBC Connecticut.

Police found two pounds of marijuana in a South Windsor home after responding to a shooting there Friday afternoon. 

Police said they responded to a home on Gorski Drive just before 2:30 p.m. after receiving reports that a man had been shot and they found him with a gunshot wound to the leg. 

His injuries were not life-threatening and he was taken to Hartford Hospital. 

Police later obtained a search warrant for the home and found two pounds of marijuana, more than $1,000 in cash, cell phones and evidence relating to the discharge of a gun, according to police. 

This investigation is continuing. Anyone with information is asked to call the South Windsor Police Department Investigations Division at 860-644-2551 or the confidential tip line at 860-648-6266.

Route 8 south is closed near exit 43 in Harwinton, according to Connecticut State Police.

State police said a person either jumped or fell from the overpass. Serious injuries were reported.

Detours are in place. Drivers should seek alternate routes.

No other information was immediately available.

Westport firefighters rescued a person from the Saugatuck River just before 4 p.m. Monday. 

Officials said the victim moved around 500 yards from where he entered the water because of the current and firefighters were able to swim to the victim, securing him while firefighters on shore brought the victim back in to shore using ropes. 

The victim was transferred transported to the hospital. 

State police are handling the investigation.

Police have responded to Norwalk High School and a shelter in place has been issued.

‏Police said on Twitter that all students and staff are safe and no one will be allowed on campus.

A Tweet from Norwalk Public Schools says the high school is under a “shelter” alert while security and officers investigate a report from a student this morning.

“It is business as usual in class, but no one will be allowed in or out of the building until the review is complete. Thanks for your understanding,” a Tweet from the school district says.

Check back for updates on this developing story.

After spending the weekend criticizing his political opponents in a tweetstorm, President Donald Trump went on the offense again Tuesday — this time denying a sexual assault claim and attacking the "fake news" that published the story.

Trump seemed to be responding to a Monday story in the Washington Post, which took another look at Rachel Crooks' allegation that Trump kissed her without her consent while she was working as a receptionist for a company based in Trump Tower in New York in 2005.

He tweeted: "A woman I don’t know and, to the best of my knowledge, never met, is on the FRONT PAGE of the Fake News Washington Post saying I kissed her (for two minutes yet) in the lobby of Trump Tower 12 years ago. Never happened! Who would do this in a public space with live security......

....cameras running. Another False Accusation. Why doesn’t @washingtonpost report the story of the women taking money to make up stories about me? One had her home mortgage paid off. Only @FoxNews so reported...doesn’t fit the Mainstream Media narrative."

Crooks, now 35, first told her story to the New York Times in October 2016. In her accounts, she describes meeting Trump at an elevator, where he held her hand and kissed her cheeks. Then, Crooks says, he kissed her mouth.

"It felt like a long kiss,” the Post quoted Crooks as saying. "The whole thing probably lasted two minutes, maybe less."

Crooks is one of at least 16 women who has accused Trump of sexual misconduct, ranging from harassment to forcible groping and kissing over several decades. While Trump has repeatedly denied the allegations, Crooks and two other women recently called on Congress to investigate the claims.

Crooks is currently running as a Democrat for a seat in the Ohio state legislature.

Trump's response to the Post's story comes less than a week after he insisted he is "totally opposed to domestic violence of any kind" following the resignation of his former staff secretary, Rob Porter. 

Porter resigned from his White House position on Feb. 7 after two ex-wives accused him of being physically and emotionally abusive during their marriages. Trump at first praised his former aide and the work he did in the White House, tweeting that "peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation."

One week after Porter's resignation, Trump spoke out and denounced domestic violence, saying, "it almost wouldn't even have to be said."

The president's heated tweets also come in the wake of reports that Trump had consensual affairs with a Playboy model and an adult film star while married to his current wife, Melania Trump. Both affairs are reported to have been covered up by Trump and his allies.

Trump has refrained from personally addressing either affair, but the relationships have been denied in statements from his lawyer and the White House

Police have arrested man after investigating reports of someone threatening to “shoot up” Kennedy High School in Waterbury Wednesday.

Police said a 17-year-old Kennedy High School went to police at 4:30 p.m. Monday and reported receiving several FaceTime videos the day earlier from a man he did not know who threatened to “shoot up” the high school on Wednesday morning.

The caller also had a black revolver in the video, police said.

Officers identified 21-year-old Christopher Roman, of Waterbury, as the suspect in this incident and arrested him.

He was charged with breach of peace in the first degree, threatening in the first degree, brandishing a facsimile firearm and interference.

He was held overnight at police headquarters and transported to Waterbury Superior Court this morning for arraignment.

Hamden police have arrested two Quinnipiac students accused of selling drugs out of a dorm room.

Patrick Ownbey and Shawn Wheeler, both 18, were arrested Sunday after Hamden police were called to the Quinnipiac University campus for a report of a drug investigation.

The university’s Public Safety told police they received a tip that a student was selling drugs from his dormitory. When public safety officers arrived at the room, Ownbey and Wheeler were there along with two other students.

Police said Ownbey, who is from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, had 15.5 grams of marijuana, along with five edible “Marijuana Fruity Pebbles Squares”, 87 grams of THC oil and other drug paraphernalia on him at the time of the search. Wheeler, from Atkinson, New Hampshire, was found with 137.5 grams of marijuana and other paraphernalia, including a scale.

They were both arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and sale of a controlled substance. They were each released on a $1,000 bond and due in court on March 5.

Police said the other two students in the room were found to have small amounts of marijuana. They were each issued infractions for possession of marijuana, less than a half-ounce.

A woman suffered burns when a mattress caught fire in an apartment in Manchester Tuesday morning, according to Manchester fire officials.

Manchester firefighters responded to the fire at a third-floor apartment in the Velvet Mills Apartments on Pine Street. The fire was controlled by the building’s sprinkler system, but one woman was burned and taken to Hartford Hospital for treatment. The severity of her injuries was not immediately clear.

The building was evacuated as a precaution but no other injuries were reported. The apartment has some damage and the apartment directly below also suffered water damage.

Residents were being allowed back into their apartments.

The Winter Olympics are undeniably cool, but some of the sports can seem absolutely crazy, making you wonder whose bright idea it was to first hurtle down a nearly mile-long tube of ice (bobsled, skeleton, luge) or fling themselves off a hill (ski jumping, big air snowboarding).

While people have been playing with sleds and skis for centuries, each of these sports has a pretty well-documented history. In fact, there's even one brave person who's credited with making the first ski jump more than 200 years ago.

Check out the origins of the sports that can keep even the hardiest Olympics viewers up at night:

Sliding Sports
Sled races go back a long way – back to the Middle Ages, in fact. The first sled race that was documented took place in Norway back in 1480, the next in Germany in 1552, according to USA Luge.

But what we know as the Olympic sports of skeleton, luge and bobsled are an intercontinental invention.

Toboggans were inspired by Native American-Canadian transport sleds, which were already being used to shoot down straight tracks in the Great White North by 1882. That's when British soldiers in Switzerland added a twist, according to the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation. Actually a couple of twists: they built a curved track between the towns of Davos and Klosters to kick the competition up a notch.

The next year saw the first luge race on a road between the same two towns, and it ended in a tie. An Australian student and a local mailman both covered the 4 kilometers in 9 minutes and 15 seconds, according to the International Luge Federation.

Bobsled grew out of skeleton racing, when two skeleton sleds were attached and affixed with a steering mechanism, according to the Olympics' history of the sport. It had an official club in St. Moritz, Switzerland — the site of the second Winter Games — by 1897.

All three of the sports were developed by Swiss hotel owners as a pastime for their wealthy clients, according to the Olympics.

Athletes have sped up dramatically since the first Winter Olympics in 1924. Switzerland won the four-man bobsled with a time of 5:45:54; the top time dropped to 3:40:69 for Latvia at the 2014 Sochi Games. (The Russians had their gold medals rescinded for doping.)

Ski Jumping
It's rare to be able to pinpoint who started a sporting event, but a Norwegian-Danish military officer named Ole Rye is the man credited with making the first ski jump, according to the International Olympic Committee, which credits him with a nearly 10-meter jump, roughly 30 feet, in 1808.

Rye rose to the rank of general in the Danish military and died in battle in the coastal town of Federicia near Copenhagen, according to a museum in the area.

Organized ski jumping competition had taken off by the 1860s, and the sport's history — and development into a truly death-defying activity — can be traced through the progression of ski jumping styles.

In 1924, the best jumpers sailed about 50 meters. Just 12 years later, after the spread of the Kongsberger technique taught athletes to bed at the hips and extend their arms over the skis, the first one reached 100 meters.

Since then, skiers have learned to put their arms backwards and shape their skis into a V, according to the Olympics. The gold medal-winning large hill jump in at the Pyeongchang Games was 136.6 meters.

There's actually a version of ski jumping that goes even further than the Olympic competition: ski flying. It's held on even bigger hills than the Olympic standard, and at a competition last month, Poland's Kamil Stoch landed a 230-meter jump — that's 755 feet.

Big Air Snowboarding
Snowboarders have always lived out on the edge, but the big air competition brings that tendency to new heights.

It made its Olympic debut at Pyeongchang Monday (Sunday in the U.S.), with the first gold medal to be awarded three days later. The athletes drop 125 feet, then launch themselves off a 10-foot jump to nail one massive trick.

The competition dates back to 1994 and an Austrian competition called "Air & Style" that featured just one big jump. It reached the International Ski Federation by 2001 and the world championships in 2003.

Pyeongchang has the tallest ramp in the world, at 49 meters (160 feet).

It's not official, but Red Bull — the energy drink that's a big name in extreme sports sponsorship — lists the biggest snowboard jump ever landed as a 57-meter (187-foot) 360 pulled off in Norway in 2005.

A man was shot seven times in Hartford Tuesday afternoon and police are investigating.

Police responded to Edgewood Street at 12:16 p.m. after shot spotter recorded nine gunshots and calls started coming in about a shooting.

Officers saw the victim on the ground in the 800 block of Albany Avenue and they found nine .40 caliber shell casings,

The victim was taken to St. Francis Hospital and is in serious and stable condition.

Detectives from the Hartford Major Crimes Division and the Focused Violence Reduction team responded.

Hartford Police Deputy Chief Brian Foley previously said the victim is a convicted felon and marijuana and crack were found on scene.

The Hartford Police Department Major Crimes unit is investigating.

If you thought curling was an amusing Olympic sport, you probably haven’t seen ski ballet. 

Ski ballet, a hybrid of figure skating and gymnastics on the slopes, made its Olympic debut as a demonstration sport at the Calgary Games in 1988. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, ballet remained in the demonstration category while other freestyle skiing disciplines — moguls and aerials— got a full medal status. By 1994, the sport still failed to catch on and was dropped from the Lillehammer Winter Games entirely. 

Ski ballet recently got some buzz on social media when The Guardian shared a video clip of athletes clad in tasseled spandex costumes and dancing to synthesized music.

“Bring back ski ballet – a tribute to the lost winter discipline,” their post read. Twitter liked the idea. 

According to Jeff Chumas, who competed as an aerialist from 1976 to 1980 and became the director of the United States freestyle ski program from 1985 to 1995, ski ballet didn't become a medal sport because of poor funding. 

“In the United States, and under the direction of the United States ski team, we were fighting for precious few resources against very well established sports like Alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, and the like. Freestyle skiing was not clearly understood back in those days," Chumas said. 

Ski ballet requires incredible strength and balance from athletes who ski down a smooth slope while combining jumps, flips and spins. They use shorter skis with longer poles and are judged on a combination of technical and artistic factors.

Hannah Kearney, who won a gold medal in 2010 and a bronze medal in 2014 in mogul skiing said the eight years she spent doing ski ballet while growing up gave her the tools to be successful in moguls freestyle.

“My success comes from the heart of the sport which is that you had to recover at all costs, be really strong, well balanced but also agile and light on your feet,” Kearney told NBC Olympics.

The former head of the Enfield Community Development Corporation is accused of stealing more than $95,000 in government funds from the organization.

The Enfield Community Development Corporation (ECDC) is a non-profit corporation that oversees economic development projects in Enfield, primarily in the Thompsonville section of the town. The state administers federal funds to support the program.

Officials said 47-year-old Darrin Lamore, 47, of Enfield, conspired with an employee of the Town of Enfield from June 2012 to October 2015 to falsify invoices and divert funds intended for economic development in Enfield and apply them to Lamore’s.

Lamore, who was the executive director of the ECDC has been charged by a federal criminal complaint. He appeared in court on Feb. 16 and was released on a $25,000 bond.

A handyman is accused of stealing loose change and more than $10,000 worth of jewelry while working at a home in Southington over a span of three days.

Police said 37-year-old Jeffrey Couture, of Terryville, turned himself in to Southington Police Tuesday after learning that there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest and he has been charged with second-degree larceny.

Couture is accused of selling some of the jewelry to area pawn shops and police were able to recover some items. They are working on finding the rest of the jewelry.

Couture was held pending a $15,000 bond.

The United States Military Academy Preparatory School accepted a Junior ROTC cadet who died valiantly in the Parkland school massacre Tuesday, on the same day his funeral was being held.

As loved ones awaited word on whether a petition for him to receive a military burial would garner enough signatures, West Point posthumously offered 15-year-old Peter Wang admission to the academy. Loved ones say Wang died a hero in his ROTC uniform, and his dream was to attend West Point and serve in the military.

Family and friends of Wang gathered at Kraeer Funeral Home in Coral Springs to say their final goodbyes to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student.

"For as long as we remember him, he is a hero," fellow student Jared Burns said.

Friends say Wang was holding a door open so other students could escape, sacrificing himself and getting shot repeatedly as he put others before himself.

"He was like a brother to me and possibly one of the kindest people I ever met," friend Xi Chen said.

The USMA said in a statement that admitting Wang into the school was an appropriate way to "honor this brave young man."

"West Point has given posthumous offers of admissions in very rare instances for those candidates or potential candidate's whose actions exemplified the tenets of Duty, Honor and Country," the statement said.

A White House petition is calling on Congress to give Wang a proper, full honors military burial. The petition had received more than 56,000 signatures by Tuesday but still needs more than 40,000 signatures before it would get a response from the White House.

"His selfless and heroic actions have led to the survival of dozens in the area. Wang died a hero, and deserves to be treated as such, and deserves a full honors military burial," the petition reads.

In a military funeral, tradition calls for the playing of "Taps" and the folding of the American flag.

"He died in uniform and he saved people's lives. He deserves to have a full military burial," friend and fellow JROTC member Victoria Downing said. "I want him to be remembered as a hero because that’s exactly who he was."

Meanwhile, Gov. Rick Scott has ordered the Florida National Guard to honor Wang and the other two JROTC members killed in the shooting at their funerals this week.

It was also announced Tuesday that the three JROTC members would be given the Army Medal of Heroism, which will be presented to their families.

Police have seen a resurgence of residential burglaries in Windsor Locks.

Several burglaries have been reported since Jan. 1 at homes on Greenwood Road, Copper Drive, Belaire Circle, Pershing Road, Jackson Street and Michelle Drive, police said. 

The suspect or suspects have been targeting unoccupied homes during the evening hours. Police said they gain entry through rear doors, windows and sliding doors.

All forced entries were at the rear side of the home, out of the sight or pedestrians, traffic and police. 

Police do not have a vehicle or suspect description.

Residents should contact Windsor Locks police if they see anything suspicious.