A propane truck rollover and leak has closed part of West Road in Colchester on Monday morning.

A residential propane delivery tank truck lost control and rolled over near 359 West Road, which is near the Salem town line around 9:00 a.m., fire officials said.

The truck landed on its driver's side. The driver was able to get out on their own and was transported to a medical facility for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, officials said. No other injuries were reported.

The propane truck has approximately 3,000 gallons of propane on it and police said there were two leaks. Fire crews from multiple towns including Bozrah, Colchester, East Haddam, East Hampton, Gardner Lake, Hebron, Lyme, Marlborough, Salem and Yantic responded.

With help from technicians from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, they were able to block one of the leaks. The other leak is currently still leaking propane gas, but it has been significantly reduced in size, DEEP officials said. DEEP plans to work with the owner of the propane tank truck, Osterman Propane, to offload the propane and transfer it into another tanker.

Firefighters have set up a perimeter of 330 feet around the incident. Residents in the immediate area were asked to shelter in place.

The incident has closed the intersection of West Road and Woodbine Road. Drivers are asked to avoid the area. Police said the road will be closed for an indefinite period while they work on clearing the scene.

No other vehicles were involved in the incident, police said.

Bristol police are investigating a serious crash involving a motorcycle on Route 6 (Farmington Avenue) Monday.

Police said the scene is at the intersection with King Street. The accident reconstruction team has been called in.

Drivers are advised to avoid the area.

More details were not immediately available.

This is a developing story. Check back updates.

Police are investigating after a video of two New Britain High School students having sex in class circulated online.

The New Britain Board of Education notified the police department about the video on Thursday. Police said the two students involved have been identified and that the sex was consensual. The students, a 17-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy, were each issued a juvenile summons charging them with one count of public indecency and risk of injury or impairing the morals of children.

The Consolidated School District of New Britain released the following statement:

"On Thursday, there was an incident at New Britain High School that involved inappropriate conduct between a male and female student. NBHS Administration was notified of the situation immediately after it occurred and took swift action. This included opening an investigation and alerting all appropriate authorities.

The investigation, which is now being conducted by the New Britain Police Department, is ongoing. As such, we have no further comments at this time."

The investigation is ongoing and police say more arrests are possible.

A mosquito trapped in Hampton has tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis.

It is the first mosquito to test positive for EEE in Connecticut this year, according to the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.

The bird-biting mosquito was trapped at Hampton Reservoir on Sept. 19.

Eastern equine encephalitis is one of the most severe mosquito-transmitted diseases in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It is rare in humans, but there are a few cases reported in the U.S. each year, according to the CDC.

Symptoms of serious cases include the sudden onset of headache, high fever, chills, and vomiting. From there, a patient may become disoriented, have seizures or even fall into a coma.

One-third of those affected will die and most survivors are left with significant brain damage, according to the CDC.

A 15-year-old boy faces charges after police say he brandished a fake gun on the school bus in East Granby last month.

The teen, who was not identified due to his age, is accusing of brandishing what appeared to be a real firearm on a school bus ride home on Sept. 14. Police said school bus surveillance video showed the teen with the weapon.

Investigators later determined the gun was a facsimile weapon.

The incident led to some confusion and a soft lockdown at both the high school and middle school the following Tuesday, when someone reported that a student was possibly in possession of a weapon on a school bus. The school was searched and state police later determined the incident regarding the weapon occurred the previous Friday.

The suspect, who was not identified due to his age, is charged with brandishing a facsimile firearm, first-degree threatening, and second-degree breach of peace.

He is scheduled to appear in Hartford Juvenile Matters on Oct. 9.

Simsbury police are warning residents to keep their vehicles locked after multiple car break-ins and thefts overnight Monday.

Police said the incidents occurred in the south end of town on Chestnut Hill Road, West Ridge Drive, West Mountain Road, Madison Lane, Stockade Lane and Huckleberry Lane. All of the vehicles entered were unlocked, and the three stolen vehicles had the keys left inside.

Residents are reminded to lock their vehicles and remove any valuables.

Unlocked car break-ins and thefts are a common problem in towns and cities across Connecticut.

An error inputting a bank account number cost an Andover man thousands of dollars.

Justin Marchand is a fan of Volkswagon.

“It’s good on gas and diesel” said Marchand.

But last April, Marchand had to sell his 2012 Passat back to the dealership after a major recall involving its diesel emissions meant that it couldn’t be fixed and it wouldn’t pass an inspection.

Marchand said Volkswagon refunded him $8,300 through a class-action settlement. The car company transferred the money using Chase payments. But when Marchand tried transferring the funds into his Bank of America account, he ran into trouble.

“I accepted it right away and that’s where I ended making the mistake and putting the wrong number in,” said Marchand.

The money went to someone else’s bank account. When he tried to get the money back, Merchand told us it was already withdrawn. He said neither Bank of America or Volkswagen could help him retrieve the funds.

“They told me that the money was in that account. But there’s nothing they can do about it because it’s someone else’s account,” said Marchand.

Marchand said he filed a police report and that detectives tracked down the Bank of America account holder who withdrew the original deposit to a Waterbury address. But Marchand says police have told him that charges have not been filed.

When NBC Connecticut Responds asked Marchand what police said they could do moving forward, he said they told him there was nothing else they could do, and it was up to him to go to court.

Marchand said he had planned to use that $8,300 to put down on another car.

When Responds reached out to Bank of America, their spokesperson Tara Burke told us a statement:

“We advise our customers to be extra diligent to ensure they provide the correct account numbers. Once funds are transferred to another account pursuant to instructions provided by a customer, the person who receives the funds now owns them. We do not have the authority to pull out funds without the permission of the account holder.”

Marchand said he just wants to get his money back.

“I’m kind of at a dead end at this point. I don’t know where else to go.”

Always remember to double and triple check your information before entering your bank account number and verify the name on that account.

The City of New London is moving forward with plans to repurpose the property of the blighted Thames River Apartments.

The New London Housing Authority has officially transferred the approximately 15-acre property to the City of New London for $185,000. The price was determined by subtracting the estimated cost for demolishing and remediating the property, which came in around $1 million.

The federally subsidized Thames River Apartments on Crystal Avenue were plagued by issues including mold, roaches, and mice. Residents dealt with deteriorating conditions for years until the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Choice Voucher program provided a grant to relocate all the families. All the residents moved out by this summer.

The city’s development corporation, The Renaissance City Development Association (RCDA), has already received two letters of interest with plans to redevelop the property. The city is planning industrial and commercial use of the space.

Raking up leaves is a chore for anyone and for those who live in Stonington, it’s about to get even tougher.

An aching state budget forced Connecticut towns to make cuts. The Town of Stonington slashed its Leaf Pickup Program.

Under the program, residents were able to put leaves near the curbside and twice during the season, the town vacuumed them up.

“We keep paying more and more and get less and less,” said David Decastro, who lives in Stonington.

He was surprised to find out about the program cut and is concerned about ridding of his leaves, especially since he doesn’t have a truck to take them to the Stonington Transfer Station.

The cut saves the town $100,000 that will go toward funding the manpower and equipment for town infrastructure projects, according to Stonington Highway Supervisor Tom Curioso.

“We’re able to do other projects that need doing where the roads are in disrepair. We’re able to do our paving preparation,” Curioso said.

The leaf collection program has been around for 15 to 20 years. For the last two or three, it’s gone into January, which sometimes conflicts with crews preparing for winter operations, according to Curioso.

The town will still pick up leaves in common-use areas prone to flooding to make sure they don’t get into catch basins—the original reason the pickup program launched and then expanded over the years, he said.

Some residents said they don’t mind the program cut. They either dispose of, compost or push the leaves into the woods on their own.

“We don’t do all that work and then leave them on the side of the road and wait for somebody to come along and pick them up,” said Anny Payne, of Stonington.

Others, like William McCrary, said it’s already a lot of work just raking up the leaves from the two big maple trees in his backyard and hauling them out front for the town to pick up.

“I’d probably have to make four or five trips to the dump to haul off what they suck up in 15 or 20 minutes,” McCrary said.

On its website, Stonington’s Department of Public Works stated when bringing leaves to the Stonington Transfer Station, keep them free of trash, they can be delivered in paper leaf bags, but those transported in plastic bags must be emptied at the site.

For alternatives to raking and questions about disposal, click here.

In the days leading up to a public allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to a college classmate, the judge and his team were communicating behind the scenes with friends to refute the claim, according to text messages obtained by NBC News.

Kerry Berchem, who was at Yale with both Kavanaugh and his accuser, Deborah Ramirez, has tried to get those messages to the FBI for its newly reopened investigation into the matter but says she has yet to be contacted by the bureau.

The texts between Berchem and Karen Yarasavage, both friends of Kavanaugh, suggest that the nominee was personally talking with former classmates about Ramirez’s story in advance of The New Yorker article that made her allegation public. 

A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash on Route 6 in Bristol Monday night.

Police said the crash happened around 7:52 p.m. at the intersection with Jerome Avenue. The victim was rushed to St. Francis Hospital.

The Bristol Police Serious Traffic Accident Reconstruction Team is investigating. Anyone with information is asked to contact Officer Craig O’Connor at 860-584-3031.

Julie Swetnick says she's a shy person who pays no attention to politics. But she says she felt she had to go public with serious allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

In an exclusive broadcast interview with NBC News, Swetnick claims she saw Kavanaugh behave inappropriately at parties in the early 1980s.

"He was very aggressive — very sloppy drunk, very mean drunk. I saw him — go up to girls and paw on them, try to, you know, get a little too handsy, touching them in private parts. I saw him try to shift clothing," she told Snow.

East Hartford police say two people, including a child, were hit when a vehicle crashed into a building on School Street Monday afternoon.

A sedan crashed through the door of the Dollar Tree at 10 School Street.

Police said a child was transported to the hospital for treatment of a minor injury. A man who was hit declined treatment.

A woman was also struck by a piece of the door after it flew off from the impact. She also declined treatment.

Fire officials said there were three people in the car at the time of the crash. None of them were taken to the hospital.

Investigators said it appears the driver hit the wrong pedal.

The building has been deemed unsafe and is closed for the time being, fire officials said.

The crash remains under investigation.

Police are trying to locate a 3-year-old boy missing from Putnam.

Authorities have issued a Silver Alert for 3-year-old Malakai Tucker, who is believed to be with his mother Christina Samples.

Tucker is 3-foot, 30 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Police believe Tucker and his mother may be traveling to Tennessee, possibly in a 2002 blue Hyundai Sonata, with Tennessee license plate BFF414.

Anyone with information on Tucker’s whereabouts should contact Putnam police at 860-928-6565.

Outraged parents in South Windsor are angry that kids were set to start an after-school program at a temple whose president who is a registered sex offender.

Parents have struggled to find childcare in South Windsor and the town has been working to help them. But one private option suddenly was called off on Friday after a concerning discovery.

“It’s like a pit in my stomach,” said Corie Tracey of South Windsor.

Tracey still can’t believe her 5-year-old daughter was set to start after-school care on Monday at the Temple Beth Hillel in South Windsor.

She and other parents found out the president of the temple is a registered sex offender.

On Monday, Tracey and other parents directed their anger toward the town council and especially Councilor Jeffrey Glickman, who happens to also be the temple’s rabbi.

“This is not a safety issue. There are no safety threats,” said Glickman.

In an interview before the meeting, Glickman defended his congregation member.

“He had nothing to do with the programming. We have nothing to do with the programming,” said Glickman.

The childcare program was to be run by the YMCA which would have leased rooms in the temple.

A Y spokeswoman told NBC Connecticut:

"We do anything and everything in our power to keep our children safe. And as soon as we were made aware of a significant safety concern we immediately terminated our partnership with the temple."

Some parents believe someone should be held responsible.

“Let me be the first to call for Councilor Glickman’s resignation,” said Richard Delhaie of South Windsor.

The Y says the temple told staff of the safety concern last week and by Friday the decision was made to cancel the program there.

The Y stresses it does background checks on its staff.

The Democrat and Republican seeking to become Connecticut’s next attorney general sound an awful lot like their respective national party cohort when it comes to addressing Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the US Supreme Court.

The issue of sexual assault was raised during the first debate between Republican Sue Hatfield and Democrat William Tong.

Kavanaugh is now facing multiple allegations of sexual assault dating as far back as to his days in high school. His confirmation vote has been delayed following testimony from one of his accusers, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, and the FBI is now conducting a deeper investigation into his past.

When asked about his nomination, Monday, Hatfield said Kavanaugh must be afforded the highest degree of due process.

"I believe in the presumption of innocence,” said Hatfield, a state prosecutor who lives in Pomfret. “When defendants come through the courthouse doors. I never say this person is guilty because they're coming to court. I follow the law and I let the law be my guide. Not politics."

Hatfield said she supported the investigation that was the result of a compromise among members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The final confirmation vote on Kavanaugh is expected by Friday.

Tong, who’s chaired the Judiciary Committee in the Connecticut House of Representatives for the past four years, said support or opposition to Kavanaugh shines light on a candidate’s character.

"I believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and I called on Judge Kavanaugh to step aside and withdraw as a nominee for the Supreme Court this week,” said Tong, who works in a corporate law firm in Stamford, “I think it's incredibly important for the attorney general to provide legal leadership, policy leadership, legislative leadership and also moral leadership."

An official environmental analysis by the government found that as many as 299 premature deaths annually by mid-century would be the result of President Donald Trump's weakening of pollution and fuel-efficiency standards for new cars, NBC News reported. 

Additionally, the proposed change in standards, which rolled out in August, would cost Americans nearly 17,000 days of work a year, due to increased illnesses.  The emissions rule would do nothing to rein in the potentially catastrophic global warming either, according to the analysis by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

The likely negative health impacts from allowing more pollution are outlined in a chart deep in the NHTSA’s environmental impact statement. It predicts 199 additional cases of acute bronchitis a year, 62 added emergency room visits from respiratory distress annually and a total of 16,819 missed work days per year. The premature death total of 299 annually would come under one predictive model, while another model suggests premature deaths would top out at 134 a year.

The Environmental Protection Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

Following last month's deadly explosion in Massachusetts, two Connecticut lawmakers are urging state officials to do a details review of the state's natural gas lines.

Lawmakers in Connecticut want to know if that dangerous situation over the border could happen here.

Representatives Christopher Rosario, of Bridgeport, and Matthew Lesser, of Middletown, are requesting the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) to do an in-depth review of the state's natural gas lines, including the risk of a leak and how often lines are inspected.

Every two years, all utilities must submit their plans to restore service in the event of an emergency for approval with PURA in an effort to keep you from having to be without basic needs for an extended amount of time.

Last month, a series of gas explosions and fires damaged and destroyed dozens of homes in three Massachusetts communities and some people may not have their gas back on until next month.

PURA will discuss those plans at a public hearing in New Britain on Wednesday.

A new study at the University of Connecticut hopes to help women who just had a baby get healthier and lose any extra postpartum weight. Researchers are launching the free study in May and are looking for women to be a part of it.

It’s those sweet baby smiles that melt our hearts. For Ashlee in Columbia, it’s those smiles that keep her motivated as she has her hands full with newborn twins.

“I feel like I am in constant motion. Like, between the babies and nursing them, changing diapers, getting them to sleep and then we have a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old. So also meeting their needs as well. I feel like there is a lot of running around and a lot of juggling we are still getting used to,” said Ashlee.

All of the juggling leaves little time for Ashlee to take care of herself. Most moms can attest, she is not alone.

“There are a lot of challenges that are the same when you have little ones,” said Molly Waring.

Waring is an Assistant Professor in the Allied Health Science Department at the University of Connecticut and has young kids herself. She is launching the new study all about new moms.

“Studying different approaches for postpartum weight loss. So to help moms lose weight after they have had a baby. And we are comparing an in-person program to an online program that we deliver via Facebook,” said Waring.

If new moms choose to participate in the study, half of them will go to Hartford to get their health advice and the other half can simply use their phone or computer.

“Think about a secret Facebook group, you can engage whenever, wherever. So you can be sitting on the couch nursing the baby, you can be running around the kitchen and you need support and you can just connect with other moms and the health coach right there rather than carving out time to come in, in person,” said Waring.

Moms who participate will get personalized professional nutrition, fitness and even stress-relieving advice for free through the program. They will also have a network of fellow women to connect with for support.

The study is looking for 80 women. They are recruiting moms and moms-to-be who are eight weeks to 12-months postpartum, through May. That means women who are currently pregnant may still be able to apply. To learn more information call (860) 486-1519 or email momsstudy@uconn.edu.

“To have someone who could maybe be a resource for that, would really be a tremendous help for me,” said Ashlee.

For moms like Ashlee, it would be a welcome helping hand when she is busy helping everyone else.

“At the end of the day you just do as a mom, whatever you can, to make sure everybody is healthy and happy,” said Ashlee.

Milford police are investigating what they called suspicious activity and they are asked people to avoid the area of West Rutland Road, near Plains Road.

Police said they are asking people to contact them if they saw someone who might have been involved in several motor vehicle thefts overnight.  

No additional information was immediately available.