Waterford police have arrested the mother of a 5-year-old boy who was reported missing and was pronounced dead after being found in a vehicle at the family’s home in May.

Police said Monday that 31-year-old Whitney Bosselman, of Quaker Hill, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide and risk of injury to a minor.

The police investigation started at 2:28 p.m. on May 3, when Bosselman called 911 and said her 5-year-old son was missing, police said.

The little boy had been home with his mother and had last been seen around 12:30 p.m., according to police.

Officers responded to the family’s Maple Avenue home, searched inside and outside and found the boy minutes later buckled in a car seat in the back seat of a car that was parked on the property, police said. He was unconscious and had no pulse.

Firefighters and EMS responded and tried to resuscitate the child, but they were not able to and the boy was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.

During a news conference posted on Facebook Monday, police said they had determined that the conditions of the home were detrimental to the health and safety of other children who lived in the home and the state Department of Children and Families responded.

Bosselman turned herself in to police Monday, with her attorney present. She appeared in New London Superior Court and pleaded not guilty. 

The case was transferred and the next court date is Nov. 6.

The NBC Connecticut meteorologists have issued a First Alert for strong, gusty thunderstorms tonight. 

The NBC Connecticut meteorologists are monitoring the storms, which are expected in southern Connecticut after 7 p.m.

Track the interactive radar here. 

Police are searching for the driver who hit a pedestrian in Norwalk and fled. 

Police said a black Honda SUV hit a male pedestrian on Strawberry Hill Avenue near Roxbury Road at 2:41 p.m. Sunday. The victim sustained serious injuries and an ambulance transported him to the Norwalk Hospital. 

The driver left the scene and went north on Strawberry Hill, police said. 

Anyone with information or video surveillance in the area is asked to call 203-854-3011.

A Bulkeley High School student went to the hospital after consuming what police called an “edible narcotic” at school Monday morning. 

Officers responded to the high school just before 10 a.m. and school security told them a boy had brought the narcotic to school and shared it with a girl who started feeling sick after ingesting it. 

The girl’s mother brought her to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center to be evaluated and medical staff determined she had a minor reaction and said she was in stable condition, according to police. 

Police said none of the edible narcotic was left and the boy said only that he got it “at a corner store somewhere” and shared it only with the girl. 

They said the school suspended the boy.

A man from Brooklyn, Conn. was arrested on Sunday after police said he attempted to videotape a teenager changing in a bathroom in Killingly.

During an investigation, officers learned of accusations of inappropriate behavior involving 33-year-old Jeremy Renaud.

According to police, Renaud attempted to capture a video of a 15-year-old changing in a bathroom on Doring Drive in Killingly. Before undressing, the teenager saw the cell phone, which was propped up and actively recording.

Police applied for and were granted an arrest warrant for Renaud. He was taken into custody on Sunday and was charged with risk of injury to a minor and criminal attempt of voyeurism.

Renaud was held on $35,000 bond and appeared in court on Monday.

People who have a home in danger of collapsing because of a crumbling foundation are getting close to some financial relief.

The company set up by the state to give out grants for repairing these damaged properties now has its website up and running.

People can get information there on the application process and how applications will be evaluated.

You will not be able to actually apply for a grant until November 15, when that part of the website goes live.

For more details about the website, click here.

The three candidates for governor will debate this Thursday, Oct. 18, at Infinity Music Hall & Bistro in Hartford.

Republican Bob Stefanowski, Democrat Ned Lamont, an unaffiliated candidate Oz Griebel will take the debate stage at 4 p.m. Thursday.

You can watch the debate livestreamed on the NBC Connecticut app or nbcconnecticut.com beginning at 4 p.m., or you can watch it again at 7 p.m. on NBC Connecticut.

The debate is being produced by NBC Connecticut in conjunction with the Connecticut Broadcasters Association and other CBA member stations.

NBC Connecticut's Keisha Grant will be a panelist for the debate.

The Department of Homeland Security says it's working to identify who — or what — is behind an increasing number of attempted cyber attacks on U.S. election databases ahead of next month's midterms.

"We are aware of a growing volume of cyber activity targeting election infrastructure in 2018," the department's Cyber Mission Center said in an intelligence assessment issued last week and obtained by NBC News. "Numerous actors are regularly targeting election infrastructure, likely for different purposes, including to cause disruptive effects, steal sensitive data, and undermine confidence in the election."

The assessment said the federal government does not know who is behind the attacks, but it said all potential intrusions were either prevented or mitigated.

West Haven will receive funding from the federal government to rebuild its beachfront after Congress approved the Water Resources Development Act, Senator Richard Blumenthal said.

Erosion over the years, especially during major storms like Irene and Sandy in 2011 and 2012, has made homes and businesses by the city’s shoreline more vulnerable.

The work will be focused on restoring berms and dunes on the beaches, Blumenthal said.

Ruby Melton has owned a condo on the West Haven shoreline since the late 1970s.

“For all the years we’ve lived at West Walk, the water had never come over the walkway, ever, during any storm,” Melton said.

But then came the back-to-back punch of Irene and Sandy in 2011 and 2012.

“We didn’t evacuate during Irene so we saw the surge and that was when it was very scary,” Melton said.

She recalled the flooding in the parking lot and the storm surge reaching all the way to Captain Thomas Boulevard.

“Irene and Sandy were a big eye opener,” Melton said, “not just those who live along the shoreline, but all of us who live in West Haven.”

As president of the Savin Rock Condominiums Association, Melton has lobbied for more work to be done to better prepare the beachfront before the next major storm.

“The super storms used to only come once in a while, now it seems like they’re here more than they’re not,” West Haven Mayor Nancy Rossi (D) said.

Rossi is still working with a state review board on the city’s budget deficit.

“We could never have been able to do this on our own as the senator alluded to, he said that cities and towns aren’t to do this it’s supposed to be the federal government,” she said.

Congress has authorized spending billions of dollars to improve water-related infrastructure projects nationwide.

“This new bipartisan federal measure will enable rebuilding,” Blumenthal said, adding the 3.5 miles of public beach in West Haven is a priority. “Making our shoreline more resilient by restoring the berms and the dunes that protect life and property along our coast.”

Melton said she is encouraged the federal government is stepping in to help.

“Until we figure something else out this is what we need to do,” she said.

The exact amount of federal funding for West Haven’s beachfront has still not been finalized. Once the money is appropriated, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will come up with the plan and select contractors to do the work, Blumenthal said.

Watertown Police have arrested a man in connection to a burglary that happened at a tree service in July.

Police said on July 6, the victim reported that his building on Straits Turnpike was broken into and approximately $9,500 worth of equipment, including about 13 chainsaws and other tools, was stolen.

Video surveillance showed a bald male wearing tan shorts and a blue shirt with work boots break into the building and remove the tools.

Investigators followed up on several leads, one of which was 37-year-old Derek Ramdin, of Waterbury. Investigators said they learned that Ramdin had been selling stolen tools all over the state and contacted a tree service in West Hartford that had bought some of the tools.

According to police, investigators recovered three chainsaws that were reported stolen from the victim, as well as a chainsaw that was stolen out of Middlebury.

Middlebury Police had previously arrested Ramdin for a burglary of chainsaws in their town, officers said.

Ramdin was arrested on Friday and was charged with burglary, larceny and criminal mischief. He was issued a $75,000 bond and appeared in court on Friday. Officers said he has since posted bond.

Andy Slavitt, one of the people who led Medicare, Medicaid, and administration of the Affordable Care Act, said Monday that Ned Lamont has a better handle on how to improve access to health care and make it more affordable for Connecticut residents.

“This is one of the widest gulfs of two candidates in terms of candidates that I’ve observed around the country,” Slavitt told the audience at the Yale Child Study Center where he spoke on a panel with Lamont.

He said Lamont, a Democrat and wealthy businessman from Greenwich, would do a better job of working toward and achieving goals that make health care more accessible than Republican Bob Stefanowski would.

“There’s a very clear choice. One candidate does, the other candidate is very far from that,” he said.

Lamont said during his two previous runs for office and up to Monday, he’s asked all the time about health care issues. He said he would reach out to other governors in New England in order to band together when it comes to prescription drugs.

“Maybe Connecticut teams with Gina Raimondo and Charlie Baker to use our purchasing power to drive down those costs,” Lamont said.

Republican nominee Bob Stefanowski provided NBC Connecticut with a statement where he actually found a good deal of common ground with his Democratic counterpart.

Stefanowski wrote that there is a need to increase the number of providers on Access Health Connecticut, explore federal options to reduce cost and risk for insurers, and reducing ER visits while increasing quality preventative care.

He wrote of reducing costs relating nursing care, “We need to be more proactive in transitioning seniors from costly nursing home care to more effective home and community care -- telemonitoring services under our Medicaid program are a great solution.”

On that topic, Lamont said, “How we can incent people to stay in their homes longer, not have to go to a high priced nursing home. Our parents don’t want to go to that nursing homes.”

Shelton Police are trying to identify the suspect involved in a bank robbery on Monday morning.

Officers were called to the Key Bank on Bridgeport Avenue around 10 a.m. for a report of a bank robbery.

Police said the suspect passed the teller a note demanding money and implied that he had a weapon.

In photos provided by police, the suspect can be seen wearing a light-colored hat and a grey-colored jacket with a dark-colored shirt underneath. 

Nobody was injured during the incident.

Anyone with information about the bank robbery or the suspect is asked to contact Shelton Police at (203) 924-1544. All calls will be kept confidential.

You have to be 21 years old to legally drink, but how about 21 to smoke? Community leaders are hoping Hartford will become one of the first cities to raise the smoking age.

Some doctors and lawmakers are all for it, but Hartford business owners are not happy.

"We're seeing more and more vaping," said Dr. Seth Lapuk, of Connecticut Children's Medical Center.

He says Hartford should raise the legal age for the sale and distribution of tobacco from 18 to 21.

"There is strong evidence that you do not start smoking by 18 years old, there is a 90 plus percent chance that you will never start smoking," he said.

Hartford would be the first city in Connecticut to go above the current state law requiring people to be at least 18.

"I think that's a good idea," said parent Betta Redman.

"People who want to smoke, they're going to smoke," said Jennifer Malse, of West Hartford.

Residents and business owners like Sam Rayyshi will have a chance to weigh in on the issue at a public hearing on Monday.

"It's designed to make everyone stop smoking, but they should do the whole state, not just the city of Hartford," he said.

Rayyshi thinks the proposed change is unfair to him.

"We'll lose more business. People just go out of the city to buy it," he said.

Hartford City Council member Dr. Larry Deutsch says it's a matter of public health.

"I understand it's a shame in a sense. On the other hand, if they want to sell to those who are over 21, this would not stop them from doing that," he said.

He says something needs to be done to combat the e-cigarette and vaping epidemic.

"It's targeted to young people, especially minorities and Hartford is primarily Latino and African-American, and targeting them and making them sicker," he added.

Cities and towns in other states have passed similar laws. Deutsch says the hope is if Hartford does it, the state will follow.

Saudi Arabia’s government is discussing a plan to admit that missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, three people with knowledge of the situation tell NBC News.

According to two of the individuals, the Saudis are putting together an explanation that would absolve Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the putative leader of Saudi Arabia, of responsibility by giving him plausible deniability to say he didn’t order the killing and didn’t know about it.

Windham High School senior Barbosa Torres knew last football season he had a shot to make history.

“And then as I was getting closer, that’s when it became a reality and it was time to get serious about it,” the Whippets star running back said before their week seven match up against Griswold.

Because Torres also knows chances like this don’t happen often. For the first time in 47 years, he will be the one to break Hank Reed’s all-time rushing record at the school: 4,111 yards. Torres only needed 15 more last Friday night and the current record holder was there to see it.

“To see like the legacy passed down, [Hank Reed] told me, you know, hold it as long as I did or longer and I told him, I got you,” said Torres. “I'm going to try to hold the record for a million years."

Reed isn’t disappointed to see his record broken. Torres has earned it.

"I did the same thing,” Reed said of the paths he and Torres took to the record books. “I grew up here, played midget football, came up through the ranks, watched the team before me and followed them."

Though Torres says he isn’t done.

"Now we gotta go for the touchdown record. I'm at 49 right now,” said Torres. “We gotta find out what that one is, I'm going to break that one, too."

A Prince George's County police officer in Maryland has been arrested on rape charges after a woman living in the United States illegally told police he pulled her over and attacked her. 

Officer 1st Class Ryan Macklin, a six-year veteran of the department, was arrested on charges including rape and assault, Chief Hank Stawinski announced Monday night. The officer has been suspended without pay. 

The woman told police the officer pulled her over about 1 a.m. Thursday on University Boulevard in Langley Park. Then, she said he forced her to perform a sex act in her car in a nearby parking lot. 

She is an undocumented immigrant, sources told News4.

"The charges against this officer are highly troubling. Officers take an oath to protect others, not to abuse their authority in order to victimize someone," Stawinski said." Those who live and work in Prince George’s County deserve the very best from the men and women of this department."  

Police do not believe the officer targeted the woman because of her immigration status, the chief said. 

It was not immediately clear if Macklin had a lawyer. 

Donelan stressed that police were taking the allegation seriously.

"Within hours of the woman coming forward and telling us the events of what she says occurred to her, our officer was suspended. He is no longer a police officer. He can't act as a police officer. His police powers have been suspended," she said.

The officer has been stripped of his gun, badge and marked cruiser, Donelan said.

People living in the U.S. illegally are uniquely vulnerable to abuse by authorities, said Nick Katz, a lawyer with CASA de Maryland, an immigration advocacy and assistance organization.

"When the police are viewed as a gateway to immigration, to deportation, you're afraid to report crimes, especially something as intimate as sexual assault," he said.

Prince George's County police are looking into whether the officer may have assaulted more than one person.

Anyone with information on the attack or other attacks is asked to call 301-772-4795. Help in English and Spanish is available. 

Former FBI Director James Comey addressed a packed room at UConn on Monday night. He talked about how he found out he’d been fired, decisions made regarding the Clinton emails, and his interactions with three very different presidents.

Students say his talk gave them a different view of a man at the center of so much news and that they came to listen and make up their own mind on who Comey, a man whose angered both Republicans and Democrats, is.

“This humanized him for me,” said UConn student Michael Aisevbonaye. “As a 17-year-old male in college, I don’t get to meet many people of his stature, and he seemed larger than life. This changed that for me.”

Comey touched on the Mueller investigation, Russian interference in the election, and gave some of his thoughts on President Trump, who has been a very vocal critic of the former FBI Director. Comey mainly focused on leadership, saying it’s about kindness and toughness along with the confidence and humility. He spoke of ethical leadership, saying it’s not about the decisions, it’s about the way you make decisions.

“His take on leadership tonight was very eye-opening for me,” said UConn student Damani Douglas.

“Saying that no employee is small and everyone is making a difference, that’s what really hit me,” said UConn student Shauna Wilson.

Comey says he will never run for public office. He plans to continue teaching and hopes to write another book, this time with his wife, focusing on nontraditional families.

A tractor-trailer caught fire on Interstate 84 West in Tolland early Tuesday morning and the load of yogurt it was hauling is a complete loss.

It happened between exits 69 and 68 just after midnight and no one was hurt. 

The tractor-trailer was engulfed when firefighters arrived and the truck and the load of yogurt onboard are a complete loss.

Crews have cleaned up the scene and all lanes are open. 

The Tolland fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire.

Crews from the state Department of Transportation and the state Department of Environmental Protection are also at the scene to assist with the cleanup.

Hordes of rats are brazenly taking over homes inside a New York City public housing building, stomach-turning video shows, and even worse, may have bitten a baby Monday morning. 

Tenants at NYCHA's Claremont Rehab in the Bronx say the giants rats have been taking over their apartments after a basement garbage compactor was shut down last week, driving the rats upward. 

One video taken last week shows a group of rats popping out from behind a washing machine and scampering across the kitchen sink, one right after another. The family in that apartment boarded up the kitchen, fearful the rats would attack their dog. 

Another tenant showed video of two drowned rats in his toilet. 

"We're getting tired of this every day -- look, wake up and we see rats, not even mice, in our toilets," he says. "It's disgusting. We pay rent every month on time, and this is why we pay rent for?"

Worst of all, Asia Clemente said she found a rat biting her 1-year-old son's stomach while the child was sleeping Monday morning, and showed photos of the bloody wound. She took her son to the hospital, where he was placed on antibiotics. 

"Every mother's worst nightmare when you have a child, especially a sick one,' she said. "You can't do nothing, you helpless." 

Clemente thinks the rat was gnawing at the feeding tube attached to baby Daniel's stomach. She said it was the second time that the boy, who suffers from multiples health conditions, has been bitten by a rat. She's worried now that the rats will chew through her son's oxygen tube: "My son's not getting no air" if that happens. 

Clemente said she can't leave because the family was already transferred once this year. They arrived at Claremont to escape rats in another NYCHA building. 

NYCHA tenant leader Daniel Barber said Con Edison workers won't even go into the basement because the rat infestation was so bad.

In a statement, NYCHA spokesman Michael Giardina said, "Our residents should not have to live in these conditions. Since this first came to our attention, we have taken aggressive steps to address the current infestation by eliminating rodent access to the building and the apartments, which will also keep future rodents away. We apologize to our residents and will continue to vigilantly monitor this situation."

NYCHA says staff have been stationed at the building throughout the weekend to inspect and address the conditions, and are plastering walls to block any passageways for rats to get in. Exterminators are also treating the basements, and four compactor rooms have been closed while work is being done down there, NYCHA says. 

Yale police are issuing a warning about possible drink tampering over the weekend.

Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins sent an email to the university community after receiving a report of possible drink tampering at an on-campus party. 

He said Yale police are asking anyone with information to call campus police at 203-432-4400 or send an anonymous text tip through our Bulldog Mobile (LiveSafe) app.