Country singer Gretchen Wilson is under arrest, accused of creating a disturbance at Bradley International Airport.

 State police were dispatched to the airport at 7:18 pm Tuesday night for a disturbance on an incoming flight.

 While they were interviewing Wilson on the jetway, she became belligerent towards the troopers and caused a disturbance, according to state police.

 Wilson, 45 of Lebanon, TN, was charged with breach of peace. Her bond was set at $1,000. She’s expected in court today.

Interstate 84 in Waterbury was closed early Wednesday morning after a tractor-trailer carrying corrosive material rolled over on the highway. 

The highway was closed in both directions between exits 23 and 25A. 

Officials said the corrosive material spilled on the highway. 

The fire department responded to assess the situation.

New London police have arrested two men and they are searching for a woman after the body of a man who overdosed was found abandoned in a parking lot in May.

Officers found the body of Lebro Mei when they responded to Cedar Grove Avenue just after 7 a.m. on May 7 to investigate a report of a deceased man in the lot.

Police said 51-year-old William Dietz, of New London, 37-year-old Gabrielle Fox, of New London, and 54-year-old William Garrett dropped Mei’s body in the lot after he overdosed and suffered medical complications and all three were actively involved in the incident.

Dietz was arrested on Aug. 14 and charged with removal of a body of deceased person, reckless endangerment in the first degree, tampering with evidence and conspiracy to commit tampering with evidence.

Police said they are looking for Fox to arrest her on this active warrant.

Charges against Fox and Garrett, who is incarcerated at Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Facility in Uncasville, include removal of a body of deceased person, tampering with evidence and conspiracy to commit tampering with evidence.

The warrant for Garrett will be served during his next scheduled court date on Sept. 5, police said.

Anyone who has information on where she is should call the New London Police Department at 860-447-5269 ext. 0 or anonymous information may be submitted via the New London Tips 411 system by texting NLPDTip plus the information to Tip411 (847411).

Michael Cohen — the former personal attorney to President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations — will not accept a pardon from Trump and is willing to share "all that he knows" about his former boss with the special counsel's team, his lawyer said.

“Not only is he not hoping for it, he would not accept a pardon,” Lanny Davis, Cohen’s attorney, said Wednesday on “Today” about his client. “He considers a pardon from someone who acted so corruptly as president to be something he would never accept."

Davis said his client wants “to tell the truth from now on” about Trump. He said Cohen had told him he felt Trump was "a scary person" who "sometimes acts mentally scary."

Davis also told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night that Cohen "has knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest” to Robert Mueller’s team, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 race. Cohen, Davis said, “is more than happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows, not just about the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and corrupt the American Democracy system in the 2016 election ... but also knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr. Trump knew ahead of time about that crime and even cheered it on."

The museum at Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill is closed after a water main break, but the trails remain open. 

A water main broke across the street from the park early Wednesday morning and the bathroom facilities are closed while crews make the repairs. 

The trails are open, but they are muddy. 

The museum is closed today but will reopen tomorrow.

Two people were transported to the hospital after a car and an American Medical Response van collided in Hartford Wednesday morning. 

Police said an AMR van was going south on Hillside Avenue and Honda was going east on Freeman Street when the crash happened around 9:46 a.m. 

Two people were in the Honda and one was transported. 

One person was transported from the medical van. Police said it was not transporting any patients when the crash happened. 

Both patients were conscious when they were transported and the injuries are not life-threatening, according to police.

A 30-year-old Roman Catholic priest in Allentown has been accused of sending nude texts to a teen girl last year and groping her behind, Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin announced Tuesday afternoon.

It’s the latest in a wave of sexual abuse allegations tainting the Catholic Church and casting a shadow over the religious institution. 

Father Kevin Lonergan, who most recently served as assistant pastor at the Cathedral of St. Catherine Siena, is charged with one count of indecent assault and one count of corrupting a minor, the DA’s office said. He was arraigned Tuesday and released on $50,000 unsecured bail.

Lonergan allegedly met the 17-year-old victim before mass in August 2017 at Allentown’s St. Francis Assisi Church. Shortly after meeting her, Lonergan got the teen’s number from another church member, Martin said.

The two communicated via SnapChat several times between December 2017 and January 2018, according to the DA’s investigation. Some of those messages included nude photos of the priest, Martin said.

Then, in February 2018, Lonergan hugged the victim and grabbed her buttocks when she tried to pull away, according to the DA’s office.

The victim remained silent for several months after the assault, but she eventually came forward to officials at her high school. They reported the incident to the Archdiocese of Allentown, which banned Lonergan from ministry in June.

“Bishop [Alfred] Schlert wanted to act very quickly and transparently to report this and to inform the public of Lonergan’s removal from active ministry, but he held off doing so at my request in order not to compromise the investigation,” Martin said.

The arrest of Lonergan, who lives with his parents in Pottsville, adds to an already lengthy list of priests who have been accused of sexually assaulting minors. Last week, a Pennsylvania grand jury released a sweeping report that documented decades of abuse and subsequent cover-ups by clergy members across six dioceses in the state.

The charges against Lonergan were not a result of the landmark grand jury investigation but stemmed from a complaint filed in June, after the grand jury had finished its work, authorities said.

Pope Francis condemned those so-called “predator priests” and apologized for the Catholic Church’s sluggish response to the allegations.

CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correctly state where Lonergan lives.

Democratic lawmakers argued Wednesday that the president's implication in admitted crimes should result in confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh being pushed back, NBC News reported.

Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii went as far as to cancel a meeting with Kavanaugh, saying, "I choose not to extend courtesy to this president who is an unindicted co-conspirator."

Michael Cohen on Tuesday pleaded guilty in New York to several crimes, saying he made hush-money payments that violated campaign finance law at President Donald Trump's direction.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York was among those calling for a delay in the hearings. Republicans, meanwhile, downplayed the impact of Cohen pleading guilty and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's conviction.

In response to multiple questions about former campaign adviser Paul Manafort’s conviction and former fixer Michael Cohen’s guilty plea, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeated that the president “did nothing wrong.”

Officers from Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police are looking for information after a red-tailed hawk was found with a broken ulna bone and a metal pellet in its wing in Meriden on Tuesday.

Police said a young, injured red-tailed hawk was found at a house near the exit 4 ramp on I-691 and West Main Street.

The red-tailed hawk was taken to Kensington Bird and Animal Hospital in Berlin, where x-rays showed a metal pellet embedded in the bird's left wing with a break in its ulna bone.

The bird is currently under observation.

If you have any information about the red-tailed hawk, you're asked to contact DEEP Emergency Dispatch at (860) 424-3333. You should refer to case number 18-18635 when you call.

With Hurricane Lane barreling towards Hawaii, the islands are bracing for severe flooding and tropical storm force winds. While it is not expected to make a direct hit, it will approach the islands Thursday.

Melissa Albright, Vice President of Wethersfield Travel, said they began receiving waivers from airlines two days ago, urging them to be prepared to move plans around. She said flights out of Hawaii are sold out.

“When I woke up this morning and saw that big category 5, we try to do everything we can.”

The powerful hurricane is expected to approach the islands as a category 2 or 3 Thursday morning, battering the area with several inches of rain and wind gusts up to 60 miles-per-hour over the next few days.

Albright said the Connecticut family she has been working with is scheduled to leave Friday, but she said that could change very quickly.

”Crossing our fingers. We’re looking at possibly having them change to a day later just to be even more on the safe side. Worried about if their flight gets canceled last minute, then availability for the next few days would be sold out.”

She said hotels on the islands are taking precautions and making preparations in case guests are stranded for a few days.

”They’re preparing the ballrooms. They have a month worth of food and water stocked and accommodations for the guests should there be more of a direct hit than anticipated.”

Albright recommends people considering traveling to islands during hurricane season invest in travel insurance.

A New Haven mother who was set to be deported to Bangladesh on Thursday has been granted a stay of deportation, according to her family.

The news of the stay came just one day after supporters of Salma Sikandar began a hunger strike against her imminent removal from the country. Supporters rallied outside of the Immigration Customs and Enforcement headquarters in Hartford, hoping for a last minute miracle on Tuesday.

Sikandar came to the US from Bangladesh in 1999 and overstayed her tourist visa. She eventually filed a hardship application to stay in the country for her son, who is an American citizen.

He begins his freshman year at Quinnipiac University next week.

US Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) released a statement after Sikandar was granted a stay.

She said in part, “I am delighted that Salma Sikandar’s stay of removal has been granted by ICE. We will continue working with her as well as her family and lawyers to ensure she can remain in the United States.”

ICE confirmed Sikandar was granted a temporary stay of removal by the Board of Immigration Appeals. Immigration officials said the stay of removal is designed only to provide a temporary relief from removal. It is not a mechanism to permanently stay in the US, they said.

Prior to being granted the stay, ICE said Sikandar overstayed the requirement of her visa for more than 18 years. 

One year after volunteering, breast cancer survivor Christine Bee from Wallingford is getting ready to ride in Closer to Free for the first time.

The bike ride now in its 8th year raises millions of dollars to support research and patient care at the Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven.

“The staff here at Smilow became part of our family,” Bee told NBC Connecticut.

During her annual screening in December 2016, Bee said a technician noticed a small spot in her breast.

“Eventually had a biopsy which confirmed it was cancer and it was a very frightening moment but I would say at the same time I felt really fortunate,” Bee said, because the team at the Smilow Breast Center caught the cancer at an early stage.

After 12 weeks of chemotherapy and four weeks of radiation, Bee wanted to ride in last September Closer to Free.

“You always heard about it on television, on billboards driving around this area so yes, I was always aware of it,” she said.

But a setback kept her off a bike, so instead she volunteered on ride day at the Yale Bowl.

“I thought I was a volunteer helping others and I kind of was like a spectator,” Bee said, “but once I entered the bowl and started helping I realized I’m part of this community and that was kind of an epiphany.”

This year, Bee will proudly wear a survivor jersey.

“We’re pumped, we’re so excited to ride,” she said, “we’ve been training every Monday night on training rides with Zanes and we’ve been doing our own training for hills around Wallingford.”

Bee will be joined by her husband and two adult children making the trip back home to Connecticut on Team Busy Bees.

“My daughter just told me today she put out a Facebook post and just got $170 more dollars,” Bee said.

Bee said her family is raising money to support the many patients still in treatment.

“I saw often women some men some children suffering much more than I did,” Bee said.

And the family is saying thank you to the doctors, nurses and staff at Smilow.

“It was just that level of support that just made such a difference in my outlook or any other patients outlook when this happens,” Bee said.

A record number of 1,750 riders have already signed up for Closer to Free on Saturday September. NBC Connecticut is a proud media sponsor.

A brand-new job center in Montville is now a place to interview for multiple jobs in just one stop.

As part of the new series of summer Micro Career Fairs at the American Job Center in Montville, four different companies were hiring for multiple positions under one roof Wednesday.

In the past, the job centers in eastern Connecticut hosted one employer at a time. But after combining the centers in Norwich and New London, Carol LaBelle said even more services are available. LaBelle is the senior director of programs and special projects at the Eastern CT Workforce Investment Board.

“People are coming, absolutely. People are loving the facility, we can offer more, we have more partners here because now we’ve combined all of our partners from two centers,” LaBelle said.

It’s why Melina Bettez, of Norwich, had her resumes in hand. She has three children so she’s looking for a permanent position that will help her support them.

“Something that’s going to be full-time where I can hopefully move up the ladder,” Bettez said.

“I’m appreciative that they have a fair in this area – the Montville/Uncasville area – it’s a small area,” said Lily Ylang, of Uncasville, who was also looking for full-time employment.

Nearly 20 jobs were on the table from a dishwasher at PeopleReady, a leasing agent at Temporaries of New England, a poker associate at Foxwoods Resort Casino, to a bilingual-Spanish speaking teller at Charter Oak Federal Credit Union.

Charter Oak Assistant Vice President of Human Resources, Gail Perrelli, said she’s happy about the access to an employee pool.

“I think I’m going to walk away very happy with people who are going to be applying online and bringing them in,” Perrelli said.

Lisa Arends, the eastern region director for the Connecticut Department of Labor said the Micro Career Fairs have been so successful, they’re extending them into the fall. The department is sponsoring the job fairs.

They take place every other Wednesday. The next one is September 5th.

CHANGE PAC paid for an attack ad against Democrat Ned Lamont that’s already on the airwaves throughout Connecticut.

The ad plays part of an interview Lamont provided to local radio hosts, Chaz & AJ, and he said “yes,” to a question about whether he would raise taxes as governor.

Lamont says the ad is incorrect.

“I’m the guy that going to reduce the property tax,” Lamont said, referring to his plan to restore a property tax credit that was eliminated in recent years due to budget woes at the state level. “That’s the biggest tax that the middle class pays. That’s what makes it tougher for people to be able to stay in the state of Connecticut, so that attack ad is a false ad. Talk about what you want to do for the state.”

CHANGE PAC has raised $650,000 so far in the 2018 campaign cycle, and has spent $593,000, which includes the most recent attack ad.

The specific donors to CHANGE PAC are unknown, and the group is registered in Connecticut.

The biggest backer, seen at the end of the ad, is the Republican Governors Association, which has donors from all over the country.

RGA spokesman John Burke told NBC Connecticut of the group’s plans, “I’m not able to announce exactly what we will do spending-wise, since that is a part of our strategy, but you can absolutely plan to see the RGA fully engaged in this race until Election Day.”

Quinnipiac Political Science Professor Scott McLean says voters need to expect to see a deluge of ads from super PACs, as they’re known, in an effort to sway the election.

“The thing about Super PACs and outside ads, is that they are experts at knocking down the opposition without necessarily adding anything positive to the other side, so the more these candidates depend on outside ads, outside money and super Pacs is the extent to which this will be a negative race in Connecticut.”

McLean also said voters need to know that outside, or “dark money,” as it’s known, will flow into Connecticut throughout the fall and that’s just a part of politics in 2018.

“We saw it in 2014 like never before, and we’re going to see it again.”

U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., said Wednesday that he is innocent of federal charges accusing him and his wife of using more than $250,000 of campaign funds for personal expenses. Hunter, who represents the San Diego area’s 50th Congressional District, called the indictment “politically motivated.”

A juror in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort says 11 of the 12 jurors were ready to convict him on all 18 counts but one holdout had reasonable doubt and could not be swayed, NBC News reported. 

"There was one holdout," the juror, Paula Duncan, said in an interview on Fox News Wednesday night.

"We all tried to convince her to look at the paper trail, we laid it out in front of her again and again, and she still said that she had a reasonable doubt," Duncan added. "We didn't want it to be hung, so we tried for an extended period of time to convince her. But in the end she held out, and that's why we have 10 counts that did not get a verdict."

Manafort was convicted on eight of 18 counts he faced on Tuesday. He was convicted of five counts of tax fraud, one count of failure to file a report of foreign bank and financial accounts and two counts of bank fraud. A mistrial was declared on the other 10 counts. 

A power line came down on top of Amtrak's overhead power lines in Old Saybrook Wednesday and small fires and outages were reported Wednesday night.

Fire officials said there was a power outage and the Amtrak train line in Old Saybrook was shut down.

Amtrak and Eversource worked to de-energize the lines and restore them to the proper places. Service was partially restored early Thursday morning, according to the Amtrak Northeast Twitter account.

Some small fires along the tracks were reported, according to firefighters.

Amtrak brought buses in to transport passengers from the stopped trains that are unable to use the tracks in Old Saybrook.

Republican Attorney General nominee Sue Hatfield is calling into question State Rep. William Tong’s qualifications to become Connecticut’s next attorney general. 

Tong is the Democratic nominee who soundly defeated his two opponents in last week’s primary. 

“I know that he has stated that he meets the standard because of an opening argument in federal court,” Hatfield said. “If you look at the statute, it’s active bar in the state of Connecticut, so speaking to my own qualifications I clearly meet the standard.” 

Hatfield is making the same claims that came up during the Democratic primary over Tong’s qualifications for the office. 

The issue is not a new one for Democrats. 

Current nominee for Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz was removed from the ballot in 2010 when the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled she did not meet the requirements for courtroom experience to serve in the office. Attorney General George Jepsen won the nomination. 

Hatfield, who attended Stetson University College of Law for her law degree, has been a state prosecutor in the eastern portion of the state since 2005, which she says clears any hurdles preventing her from running for or holding the office. 

“I know I’m qualified to run the attorney general’s office. I’ve been a prosecutor in court, in state court, since 2005 so I clearly meet the Bysiewicz standard. No questions asked,” she said. 

Tong attended the University of Chicago’s School of Law and even took a class taught by Barack Obama. 

He represents Stamford in the Connecticut General Assembly and has been one of the co-chairs of the Judiciary Committee for the past few years. 

He’s currently an attorney with Finn, Dixon & Herling LLP in Stamford and says he has practiced law with the firm in Connecticut and around the country for 14 years. 

In a statement, campaign spokesman Mark Bergman said, “Not only is he qualified but he is ready to stand up for Connecticut families as the next Attorney General because he’s done exactly that over 12 years as a state legislator.” 

Bergman added, “We know Sue Hatfield is a big Donald Trump supporter so maybe she also wants to see his long-form birth certificate as well.” 

Hatfield was a delegate for Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention but said that support does not define her. 

“I will make decisions based on what’s best for the people of Connecticut,” she said.