Did you know diapers can cost a family more than $100 per month? One Connecticut group is trying to lighten that financial burden for families in need, and they’ve found a fun way to do it.

Around 2,500 runners gathered at the starting line for the Shamrock and Roll 5K in New Haven Sunday. This annual event supports the Diaper Bank, a local organization that collects diapers for families in need.

An anonymous donor will match the number of diapers donated on race day. Organizers were originally shooting for 30,000 diapers, but as of 10 a.m. between race day donations and that anonymous donor, the total was closer to 100,000 diapers.

Organizers say this is one of the largest winter road races held in Connecticut.

For more information on the Diaper Bank, click here.

A band from the Florida high school beset by a deadly shooting last month is performing this week at New York’s Carnegie Hall, one of the most prestigious music venues in the world.

Members of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Wind Symphony arrived in the city on Saturday and were greeted by Port Authority Police officers.

Port Authority Police Benevolent Association posted a photo to Twitter of the officers and the students at John F. Kennedy Airport.

Another photo posted by the school’s principal, Ty Thompson, shows the band at Miami International Airport earlier in the morning. Officers from Miami-Dade Police and the Broward County Sheriff's Office escorted the students to the airport.

The band members will perform Tuesday afternoon at the 2018 New York Wind Band Festival at Carnegie Hall.

Stoneman Douglas was one of six schools in the nation chosen to perform at the world-famous venue, according to KMPH.

The high school was thrust into the national spotlight on Valentine’s Day when 17 people were killed and more than a dozen others injured in one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings.

Work continued Sunday to get the lights turned back on for thousands of customers left in the dark after Friday’s Nor’easter.

About 9,000 outages remain as of 4:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Eversource. For a breakdown of estimated restoration times by town, click here.

Eversource officials said as of Sunday evening they had restored power to 174,000 homes and businesses since the start of the storm. Officials estimated there were around 500 broken utility poles, 87 miles worth of electrical lines down, and nearly 400 roadblocks over the course of the storm.

In New Fairfield, 10 percent of customers were still waiting for their power to return.

Over 600 Eversource customers in New Fairfield were without power Sunday morning, and another 500 plus in neighboring New Milford. Down the shoreline Greenwich, shaded in red, still had over 4,000 customers in the dark.

Crews are stretched out across the state, working around the clock to get everyone back online.

NBC Connecticut caught up with crews working to restore power in Montville and Preston. Lineman from as far away as Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee are helping in the effort.

"It makes you feel good when you turn lights on for people and help them out,” said Sam Dillard, who is from Leesburg, Mississippi.

Eversource said it has restored power to more than 130,000 customers throughout the storm and said the destruction is statewide.

“We’re making progress. Still a lot of work to do. A lot of people out here in the field taking care of things,” Eversource spokesman Mitch Gross said Saturday night.

Across the state in Preston, about 40 percent of town was cut off from the electrical grid Saturday. Residents said it came as no surprise.

“We do lose power in every major storm that comes through. It’s a narrow road, lots of dead trees,” Bill O’Neill of Preston, said.

By Sunday morning, only 74 customers in Preston remained without power.

Eversource officials said they have crews working across the state and expect the vast majority of customers to be restored by 9 p.m. Sunday. Crews will be out in the hardest hit areas through the late evening hours Sunday.

Plainville police are trying to find a missing man who they are concerned may be suicidal.

Police said 46-year-old Daryl Lamoureux was last seen in Plainville on Friday around 7 p.m. A Silver Alert has been issued.

Lamoureux is around 5-foot-6, 150 pounds, with shaved brown hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing blue nylon athletic pants, a blue t-shirt, and work boots.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts should contact Plainville police at 860-747-1616.

When a child at J.J. Hill Montessori Magnet School couldn’t afford lunch, Philando Castile apparently never hesitated to pull out his wallet to pay for their meal. Now, a charity founded in honor of Castile, who was fatally shot by a police officer during a 2016 traffic stop, has successfully continued his efforts.

The student lunch debt has been wiped out for all 56 schools in the Saint Paul Public Schools district in Minnesota, the district Castile worked for, according to the charity, Philando Feeds the Children.

“That means that no parent of the 37,000 kids who eat meals at school need worry about how to pay that overdue debt,” according to an update from the charity website. “Philando is still reaching into his pocket, and helping a kid out. One by one. With your help.”

Stacey Koppen, director of Nutrition Services at Saint Paul Public Schools, worked with Castile, and remembers him as a "kind and caring" person.

The NBC Connecticut meteorologists have issued a First Alert for a high impact coastal storm expected to move in Wednesday morning and last through Thursday morning.

The nor’easter is expected to bring snow, rain, and more strong winds lasting through the end of the week.

Snow and rain totals will depend on where the eye of the storm tracks and whether we see a drop in temperatures that could mean more snow. As of now, it looks like primarily a snow event for the western half of the state, with sleet and rain mixing in eastern Connecticut.

Standby for more details over the next 24 hours.

For the latest forecast anytime, click here.

A grand jury has issued a subpoena requesting documents of emails, text messages, work papers, telephone logs and more from the investigation into the alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to the subpoena reviewed and reported by NBC News. 

According to the subpoena, the grand jury is seeking documentation dating back over four months before the Trump presidential campaign was launched, November 1, 2015, NBC News reported. 

According to the subpoena, the request covers materials from major campaign staff including Steve Bannon and attorney Roger Stone, NBC News reported. 

Towards the end of actress Frances McDormand's Academy Awards speech Sunday night, she asked women in the industry to stand up and to make contractual demands on film studios, NBC News reported. 

McDormand ended her speech with two words: "Inclusion rider." An inclusion rider refers to a star’s ability to put companies under clear, contractual obligations to hire more women and minorities.

The concept is not new and celebrities have been able to add demands into their contracts. The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which has produced many reports on the lack of women and minorities in movies, tweeted an explanation of the phrase and its power, if actors were to demand change through their lawyers.

More than a dozen people are looking for a new place to live after a roaring fire in Meriden.

The flames broke out on Wilcox Avenue around 5 p.m. Sunday.

“I look at my grandkids and I thank god we are alive,” Ivonne Ramirez of Meriden, said.

Ramirez and her two grandkids were stunned as a fire ripped through this multi-family home in Meriden. The incredible flames spread as the family was set to celebrate the kids’ birthdays.

“I see the fire. So I scream, ‘Fire, fire, fire.’ So, we all ran outside,” Ramirez said.

Thankfully firefighters say all 15 people who lived at this spot on Wilcox Avenue are okay.

Neighbors’ thoughts are with them.

“I saw little kids wrapped in blankets, freezing. No clothes, no shoes, no socks,” Cheryl McCarthy of Meriden, said.

This was a tough battle for firefighters.

“First arriving company found heavy fire on all three floors. They initiated an aggressive, interior attack,” Deputy Chief Ryan Dunn, Meriden Fire, said.

As the fire kept building, crews later had to pull back. Then reinforcements arrived in the city from Middletown, Southington and Berlin.

Now Ramirez and others face a daunting challenge of rebuilding their lives.

“We lost everything,” Ramirez said.

The Red Cross is expected to help the affected residents.

Residents of an apartment building in Hartford had to be evacuated early Monday morning due to a car fire near the building.

Firefighters responded to the area of 299 Garden Street around 4:53 a.m. When they arrived they found a car on fire in the back of the building. The fire extended from the vehicle to a closed porch.

Fire crews knocked down the fire before it spread to any of the apartments. There was minor fire damage to the porch. No injuries were reported.

Ten people in the six apartments were evacuated as a precaution, but the residents should be able to return shortly.

The fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire.

Thirty Eversource employees staying at a hotel in Mystic had to be relocated when strong winds caused damage to the building’s roof.

Stonington police said the employees were staying at the Mystic River Inn when the roof was damaged by powerful wind. The employees were relocated to another hotel in East Lyme. No injuries were reported.

The inn is closed for repairs.

Powerful wind from Friday’s nor’easter caused widespread damage across Connecticut. Eversource enlisted workers from as far as Missouri to help with power restoration efforts.

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Several thousand Connecticut residents remained without power Monday after a weekend in the dark brought on by Friday's no'easter.

As of 3 p.m. Monday Eversource was reporting around 2,500 customers without power. 

Eversource officials said as of Sunday evening they had restored power to 174,000 homes and businesses since the start of the storm. Officials estimated there were around 500 broken utility poles, 87 miles worth of electrical lines down, and nearly 400 roadblocks over the course of the storm.

Eversource had estimated that the vast majority of customers would be restored by 9 p.m. Sunday but scattered outages remained Monday, with areas in western Connecticut seeing the most issues.

Because of power outages from Friday's storm, Greenwich Academy is closed Monday.

Linemen from as far away as Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee were called in to help with restoration efforts. 

Neighboring Massachusetts was hard-hit, with significant flooding and wind damage along coastal areas. With another storm coming Wednesday, there are concerns the debris could cause even more damage.

Much of the east coast was affected by the storm, which is being blamed for nine deaths.

Girl Scouts aren't just about camping, crafting and cooking — they're now taking on cybercrime, too, NBC News reported.

A new curriculum is being rolled out that will eventually provide girls with the chance to earn 18 cybersecurity badges.

"It's going to just make them feel empowered that 'I can go and do anything,'" said Rinki Sethi, senior director of information security at Palo Alto Networks, which created the curriculum.

Troop 32749 in Alameda, California, is already learning the basics of coding and computer networking, and a Girl Scout named Delaney said it made her feel "very special" to be helping people who could get hurt.

U2 is coming to Connecticut this summer to perform a show at Mohegan Sun. 

The show, which will be on Tuesday, July 3, is the last U.S. stop on the U2 eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE tour, which is at indoor venues.  

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday and will go for $325, $171, $106, $76 and $46. 

The show starts at 8 p.m. 

U2 promises the eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour will pick up where 2015’s iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour left off and it will feature several performance areas and super high-res LED screen nine-times the resolution of the 2015 screen.

Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian political activist who co-chaired the 2017 Women's March, is coming to UConn this week. 

She will be speaking Wednesday night at the Student Union Theatre on the Storrs campus as part of Women's Herstory Month.

This event is open to the university community and will require a valid UConn ID.

She will appear from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

A middle school teacher in Florida has been removed from her classroom as the school investigates a report that she was the voice behind a white nationalist podcast, though the teacher denies she is racist and says the comments are just “political satire.”

Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher at Crystal River Middle School north of Tampa, was the subject of a report in HuffPost that said she — under the alias of Tiana Dalichov — bragged about teaching white nationalist views in school. According to the report, the podcast included anti-Semitic remarks, comments regarding students of specific races being smarter than others and suggesting that terrorism will only stop if Muslims are eradicated from the Earth.

Dalichov openly talked about being a public school teacher, but never mentioned the school by name, according to the report. Volitich’s picture, which HuffPost said appears to show the same person as Dalichov, was still posted on the school’s website as of Monday morning.

The Citrus County School District said Sunday it learned of the podcast when it was contacted by a HuffPost reporter and immediately launched an investigation.

"The teacher has been removed from the classroom and the investigation is ongoing," the district said in a statement.

NBC News obtained a statement released from Volitich that read in part:

“None of the statements released about my being a white nationalist or white supremacist have any truth to them, nor are my political beliefs injected into my teaching of social studies curriculum. While operating under the Russian  pseudonym 'Tiana Dalichov' on social media and the 'Unapologetic Podcast,' I employed political satire and exaggeration, mainly to the end of attracting listeners and followers, and generating conversation about the content discussed between myself and my guests.

“As an adult, my decisions are my own, and my family has nothing whatsoever to do with my social media accounts or my podcast. From them, I humbly ask for forgiveness, as it was never my intention to cause them grief while engaging in a hobby on my personal time."

Volitich said she would have no further comment due to the ongoing investigation from the district.

There will be extra security and a police presence at Coginchaug Regional High School in Durham and other Regional District 13 schools after a student was charged with making threatening posts on social media.

State police said they started receiving calls about a concerning Instagram post Thursday. According to police, the post referenced the Florida school shooter and mentioned possible violence at Coginchaug High School.

Investigators traced the post back to a juvenile student, who admitted to making the post. He also told police he never planned to follow through on the threat.

On Friday, police were informed of another Instagram post, this was with a harassing message directed at a school employee. According to police, investigators identified the poster as the same student who made the previous post about violence.

The student was charged with second-degree threatening and breach of peace for the first incident, and second-degree harassment and breach of peace in the second incident. He is due on court on March 7.

In a message to the school community, Superintendent Kathryn Veronesi said the student would not be allowed back on school grounds for the time being.

“I have had consistent communication with the student’s family since Thursday evening,” Veronesi wrote. “The family is deeply saddened by the events that have occurred and are distraught about the impact this has had on other students and the school community. They have assured me that their child does not currently, nor has ever had, access to firearms. In addition, they further confirmed that their child did not intend to carry out any acts of violence.”

Police will be at Coginchaug High throughout the day Monday, and troopers will make visits at the district’s four other schools throughout the day.

To read the full message from the superintendent, click here.

Coginchaug reported a similar incident last month. In that case, a student was charged with breach of peace. 

Connecticut State Police are trying to identify a suspect accused of robbing the Tolland Country Market at knifepoint Sunday.

Police said they responded to a 911 call from the store at 404 Merrow Road (Route 195) in Tolland around 9:30 p.m. The caller reported that he had been robbed at knifepoint by a man wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, sunglasses, gloves and a bandana.

The suspect demanded cash and the clerk complied. No injuries were reported.

Police said the suspect fled on foot.

Anyone who recognizes the suspect pictured above should contact Connecticut State Police Troop C at 860-896-3236.

A former fire captain in Shelton has been accused of setting a fire outside the firehouse during a dinner in February and it's the second arrest police have made in the case.

Police said they arrested 45-year-old Gregory Bomba, of Newtown, after an investigation into a fire in the back parking lot of Echo Hose Company #1 during a past captain’s dinner on Feb. 3.

Investigators determined that a fire had been set in the back of a pickup that was parked abutting the firehouse at 379 Coram Ave., police said.

Police said Bomba surrendered himself to police on Monday. He has been charged with second-degree arson, reckless endangerment in the second degree, criminal mischief in the second degree, as well as conspiracy charges in relation to each count. He was held on a $250,000 bond and is due for arraignment Monday.

Another volunteer firefighter, identified as 57-year-old William Tortora, was arrested last week in connection with the incident. He faces the same set of charges.

A school bus carrying more than a dozen Hartford Trinity Magnet School students caught fire on Henry Street in Manchester Monday morning.

The bus driver noticed the bus was smoking around 7:15 a.m., got the students off the bus and called 911, officials said.

Firefighters arrived and put out the fire.

Hartford school officials said no injuries were reported and another vehicle safely transported the students to school.

The bus has been towed to East Hartford.