South Windsor Police are investigating after a threatening post mentioning a town school was posted on social media.

Police said they have been investigating since it was brought to their attention late Friday night.

According to officers, they have interviewed a juvenile who is not a student in South Windsor. They are also in contact with all of the schools.

Officers said they plan to continue to follow up on Saturday.

"Be assured we take such threats very seriously and the security of our schools," the police department said in a Facebook post.

Police thank everyone who made them aware of the incident.

Authorities did not release specifics about what the post said.

A 24-year-old man was taken into custody in connection with the killing of Francesco Cali, a reputed boss of New York's Gambino crime family who was gunned down in a brazen hit this week, the NYPD said. 

A Staten Island man was picked up by police in at a home in Brick, New Jersey, by the U.S. Marshals, sources familiar with the investigation said. 

Four sources identified the suspect as 24-year-old Anthony Camello. His pickup truck was found on Staten Island and cell phone records may have helped lead police to Brick. 

The sources said the murder wasn't related to the mob. One source described the man in custody as a “conspiracy theory type” of guy while a second source said he appears “a bit off.”

One theory being looked into is whether the suspect wanted to date one of the mob boss's relatives and Cali told him to back off, the sources said. 

The NYPD planned a 4 p.m. news conference on the case. 

Cali, known as "Franky Boy," 53, was shot to death in front of his home on Hilltop Terrace not long after dinnertime Wednesday. The 911 caller had initially reported a man had been run over by a vehicle on purpose and that he was trapped; the caller then said he had also been shot multiple times. A suspect fled the scene in a blue pickup truck, the NYPD said.

Investigators on Thursday began retrieving video from NYPD cameras positioned on the pair of roadways that lead in and out of Todt Hill, another source told NBC 4 New York. Surveillance video from the shooting scene is grainy, the source said.

But it shows the suspect’s truck apparently deliberately hitting the vehicle — perhaps to get Cali to come out of his home. The two shake hands, the license plate from the suspect's vehicle falls off, the suspect picks up the license, hands it to Cali, then pulls a gun and shoots as Cali puts the license in his own car, according to the source. 

Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said Thursday that 12 shots were fired, with at least six striking Cali.

Shea said Cali tried to use his car as a shield to protect himself during the shooting.

“Mr. Cali was struck several times by gunfire. In trying to elude additional gunfire, [he] fled to the rear area of his private vehicle,” he said at a press conference.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn had referred to Cali in court filings in recent years as the underboss of the Gambino organization, related through marriage to the Inzerillo clan in the Sicilian Mafia.

Multiple press accounts since 2015 said Cali had ascended to the top spot in the gang, although he never faced a criminal charge saying so.

His only mob-related criminal conviction came a decade ago, when Cali pleaded guilty in an extortion conspiracy involving a failed attempt to build a NASCAR track on Staten Island. He was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison and was released in 2009.

The last Mafia boss to be shot to death in New York City was Gambino don Paul Castellano, assassinated outside a Manhattan steakhouse in 1985 at the direction of Cali's swaggering 1980s-era predecessor, John Gotti.

With his expensive double-breasted suits and overcoats and silvery swept-back hair, Gotti became known as the Dapper Don, his smiling face all over the tabloids. As prosecutors tried and failed to bring him down, he came to be called the Teflon Don. Cali kept a much lower profile than Gotti.

In 1992, Gotti was convicted in Castellano's murder and a multitude of other crimes. He was sentenced to life in prison and died of cancer in 2002.

A 36-year-old man from Wallingford is in stable condition after getting shot in New Haven early Saturday morning.

Officers responded to Spring Street between Button Street and Dewitt Street shortly after 1:20 a.m. after getting a ShotSpotter gunfire activation.

A short time later, police said the 36-year-old Wallingford man walked into Yale-New Haven Hospital on York Street. He had a non-life threatening gunshot wound to his ankle.

Police responded to the hospital and investigators said they determined the shooting had occurred on Spring Street.

The man is in stable condition and remains under police guard due to arrest warrants out of Orange, North Haven and Wallingford, according to police.

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call New Haven Police Department Detective Bureau at (203) 946-6304.

College admissions officers comb through stacks of applications, essays, GPA scores and and more to select the few students who will be accepted, and two former officers from prestigious schools told NBC News what that process looks like as it comes under scrutiny after a massive college bribery scheme was uncovered.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's former director of undergraduate selection, McGreggor Crowley, said that it doesn't long to see if a student will be competitive: "We see so many transcripts that, in about a third of a second, we can tell what type of trajectory the student is on."

And while Crowley said that the process is so huge that he doesn't expect it "to be purely meritocratic," both he and former Columbia Univeristy admissions officer Eric Sherman said mid-level admissions officers strive to consider applicants in good faith and on the basis of their records.

These officers are the gatekeepers of what has become a deeply competitive — and, for many, a deeply unequal — process for high school students where only a tiny fraction of applicants are accepted. The federal case brought this week against 50 people, including CEOs and Hollywood stars, suggests that some rich and powerful families use their wealth to illegally subvert the process and gain an advantage.

A Hamden Public Schools employee has resigned after she allegedly was caught on camera using racial slurs at a supermarket in East Haven on Friday.

"The video appears to show the employee repeatedly calling an African-American man the N-word," according to a statement from Hamden Public Schools.

School officials said the video also appears to show the woman spitting at the man as he was walking away from her.

The video also appears to show the woman's children witnessing the conduct and because the children were there, school administrators filed a report with the Department of Children and Families, the statement said.

After learning about the incident, the district’s Human Resource Director contacted the woman and arranged a meeting with her. Shortly after arrangements for the meeting were made, school officials said the woman gave her resignation, effective immediately.

"The language the employee used in the video is in conflict with the values of the Hamden Public School System. Someone who will use that sort of language in any setting, whether public or private, is not someone we want anywhere near our children. The employee is separated from service, and we hope that her children will receive the support they need after witnessing such a traumatic event," the statement said.

The school system has not released the name of the employee who resigned or said what her position within the district was.

Hamden Mayor Curt Balzano Leng released a statement Saturday afternoon that said in part:

"What I saw was vile and shocking. While I am disgusted and disheartened seeing such hateful behavior, wildly unacceptable anywhere, I am thankful for the swift and effective actions taken by our school system to address this head on and make clear that hate and violence will not be tolerated."

The content of the video is too explicit and offensive to post at this time. We are reviewing it and reaching out to find people who may have been in the store at the time of the incident.

Yale University will be conducting an internal review amid the college cheating scandal that targeted universities nationwide.

President Peter Salovey wrote a public letter to the university stating that Yale will be conducting their own review to see if any other school officials were involved in the athletic recruitment and admissions process scandal. Salovey said the university will hire external advisors to help with this.

A federal investigation revealed that a Yale coach allegedly gave fabricated athletic endoresements to two students, one of whom currently attends the university.

The former head women’s soccer coach at Yale University, 51-year-old Rudolph “Rudy” Meredith, 51, of Madison, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, honest services wire fraud and honest services wire fraud.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has already charged dozens of people involved in the scandal with federal crimes.

Other changes the university will implement include rescinding the admissions of students involved in the scandal and imposing a new code of conduct for athletic recruitment.

"These dishonest and criminal actions are an affront to our community’s deeply held values of fairness, inclusion and honesty," Salovey wrote.

Approximately 320 prizes and scholarships were awarded to students from across the state at the 71st annual Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair.

These scholarships and awards amounted to $225,000, a spokesperson said.

The fair took place at Quinnipiac University on Saturday.

Top student projects are headed to the 2019 Intel International Science & Engineering Fair held May 12 to 17 in Phoenix, Arizona.

For a list of all the winners, click here.

It doesn't necessarily take admissions officers long to figure out if an applicant has a fighting chance at getting into one of the country's top schools, one former officer told NBC News.

In interviews this week, the ex-admissions officers said their former colleagues comb through stacks of applications, pore over essays, scrutinize GPAs and try to help campuses winnow a vast pool of applicants to a select few.

They are the gatekeepers of what has become a deeply competitive — and, for many, a deeply unequal — process for high school students.

The federal case brought this week against 50 people, including CEOs and Hollywood stars, suggest that some rich and powerful families use their wealth to illegally subvert the process and gain an advantage.

To help make sure you stay informed on the most shared and talked about stories, each Saturday and Sunday we'll revisit 5 stories from the previous week, including the most recent updates.

Flights Grounded

The FAA ordered all Boeing 737 Max 8 & 9 aircraft grounded, joining the rest of the world, which had already banned the planes from flying. The FAA said it made the decision as it learned more about the crash in Ethiopia involving one of the planes. The crash was similar to that of a 737 Max 8 in Indonesia in October. The order caused some delays and rescheduling for passengers flying Southwest, American, and United, all of which use the 737 Max 8 & 9 their fleets. See more on the grounding of the Boeing planes here.

Mosque Massacre

A gunman shot and killed 49 worshippers inside two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday. A 28-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder and several others were detained. Police did not say what the others' connections were to the crime. The death toll rose to 50 on Saturday, according to New Zealand Police. Read more about what the prime minister called "one of New Zealand's darkest days."

President Trump Fan Passes

The West Haven man with cystic fibrosis who received a call from President Trump died on Tuesday night. Jay Barrett, 44, was a big fan of the president and had hoped to meet him before he died. After a social media campaign started by Barrett's sister, President Trump called Barrett on March 5. For more on Barrett's call with the president, click here.

Don't Get Scammed

The Better Business Bureau has released its annual report on the riskiest scams nationwide. Employment scams were deemed the riskiest because of the type of information that can be compromised. See what other scams made the list here.

Reunited With Her Rings

A Massachusetts woman who lost her wedding rings at a rest stop on I-95 in Branford last month has her rings again, thanks to a Connecticut state trooper. The woman lost the rings when she got out of her car at the rest stop to use the bathroom. After a state trooper saw the couple's story, he searched through surveillance video from the rest stop and found the moment someone picked up the rings from the pavement. See how the trooper then located the rings and was able to return them to the couple here.

President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out against an old nemesis, the late Sen. John McCain, for his crucial vote against repealing Obamacare in 2017, NBC News reports.

In the same tweet, the president echoed former independent counsel Kenneth Starr's remarks on Fox News in response to reports in conservative media outlets that allege the Republican senator from Arizona was the source of a leak that put a Trump opposition-research dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele into the hands of multiple media outlets.

The reports about the source of the leaks have not been confirmed by NBC News.

The dossier alleges the Trump campaign worked with the Russian government to defeat rival Hillary Clinton in 2016. The core allegations in the dossier compose the heart of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian influence on the presidential election.

"The more we find out the uglier it becomes," Starr, referring to the alleged media leaks of the dossier, said recently on Fox News' "Fox & Friends." "The Steele dossier I think has been very substantially discredited."

In December former U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg said on MSNBC that "the dossier holds up well. None of it has been disproven."

Johnnie Barto, 71, will be sentenced Monday at Cambria County Courthouse in Pennsylvania to spend what’s likely to be the rest of his life in prison for sexually abusing a total of 29 children, including two relatives when they were minors, NBC News reports.

Prosecutors say Barto has admitted to sexually assaulting more than two dozen children during the four decades he practiced medicine, and that most were victimized in the examination room of Laurel Pediatric Associates, his practice in the Johnstown suburb of Richland Township.

Erika Brosig said she was 12 when she was assaulted by Barto in 1994 and remains haunted by what happened to her.

“He just stuck his hand down my pants, digitally penetrated me, and he moaned,” she said. “The sound of that moan will never leave me.”

After defeating the Princeton Tigers last night, the Yale Bulldogs are ready to take on the Harvard Crimson at Yale’s green-clad home court with family, friends and fans in the stands.

The basketball game will kick off at noon on Sunday, but fans have been arriving to the Elm City all weekend from across the country to watch the rival teams battle it out.

The Ivy League Championship has already made this a busier than usual weekend at New Haven hotels, bars, restaurants and other businesses, according to Michael Piscitelli, New Haven’s interim Economic Development Administrator.

"You're bringing in Ivy League schools and you're bringing in people that might not be as familiar with New Haven. The Ivy League did not have a tournament for many, many years so this is a first exposure for many people who don't come every year,” said Piscitelli.

The Ivy League’s player of the year, Yale’s Miye Oni, says the team’s success goes beyond the university.

“I think it's a great, great achievement for our city, for our school, definitely a great event that we hope ends well for us,” Oni said.

Local faith and state leaders will unite against hate at a Berlin mosque on Sunday. Organizers said it's a call for the protection of all places of worship.

State Senator Saud Anwar from South Windsor announced the gathering on Saturday.

He said that this is a time where the community must stand together in response to these tragic events. Not only what happened in New Zealand on Friday, but also after attacks at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last year and a Quebec City mosque in 2017, among others.

Senator Anwar will join Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal and President of the Islamic Association of Greater Hartford Reza Mansoor.

Mansoor believes people need to come together during times of tragedy and hate.

"We have to do everything in our power to live this American dream of a different faith, of a different color, of all these different tapestry of faiths coming together and making this nation better," he said.

The vigil will take place at 4 p.m. and is open to the public.

President Donald Trump called on Fox News to keep host Jeanine Pirro on the air after she didn't appear for her regularly scheduled Saturday night program following her anti-Muslim comments about Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a week ago, NBC News reports.

"Bring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro," Trump tweeted. "The Radical Left Democrats, working closely with their beloved partner, the Fake News Media, is using every trick in the book to SILENCE a majority of our Country. They have all out campaigns against @FoxNews hosts who are doing too well."

Pirro suggested last week that Omar's religion was antithetical to the Constitution.

"Think about it: Omar wears a hijab," Pirro said. "Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?"

Two firefighters were transported to the hospital after a house fire in Southington on Saturday night.

Crews were called to 31 Crissey Lane shortly after 8 p.m. after getting a report of a house fire.

Firefighters rescued two people from inside of the building when they first arrived and the fire was knocked down in about 20 minutes, according to fire officials.

Two firefighters were transported to the hospital, fire officials said. Authorities did not release details about what prompted them to be transported.

A cat died in the fire, firefighters said.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, explained in an interview Sunday with CBS's "Face the Nation" why he thinks his old office might be a bigger threat to President Donald Trump than special counsel Robert Mueller is, NBC News reports. 

Promoting his new book, "Doing Justice," Bharara said that Manhattan federal prosecutors are unencumbered by the restraints put on Mueller, saying the office "doesn't have the same circumscription on its ambit that the special counsel does." 

"The special counsel was appointed under a particular regulation and was supposed to look at only things relating to interference in the election and 'collusion' with Russians in connection with the election and anything arising from it, one of which was obstruction," he said.

It was investigators in the Southern District of New York who prosecuted Trump's former longtime attorney Michael Cohen for a litany of crimes. The office is currently probing the Trump Organization and Trump's inaugural committee, and Cohen said in public testimony on Capitol Hill last month that he was still providing those prosecutors with assistance in their various investigations.

Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that the New Zealand mosque massacre, where a white supremacist allegedly killed 50 people, had nothing to do with President Donald Trump's rhetoric and that the president "is not a white supremacist," NBC News reports.

"You've seen the president stand up for religious liberty, individual liberty," Mulvaney said on "Fox News Sunday." "The president is not a white supremacist. I'm not sure how many times we have to say that. And to simply ask the question, every time something like this happens overseas, or even domestically, to say, 'Oh, my goodness, it must somehow be the president's fault,' speaks to a politicization of everything that I think is undermining sort of the institutions that we have in the country today."

On CBS's "Face the Nation," Mulvaney said Trump "is no more to blame for what happened in New Zealand than Mark Zuckerberg is because he created Facebook." The social networking site said it removed 1.5 million videos of the shooting within 24 hours of the attack.

Trump condemned the shooting on Friday, but when asked if he believes white nationalist terrorism and violence is a rising concern globally, the president said, "I don't really." Trump added that he thinks "it's a small group of people that have very, very serious problems."

A Putnam couple was arrested after police seized drugs and firearms from their home.

Daniel Carroll, 33, is facing charges including multiple counts of criminal possession of a firearm. He was arrested Friday when he appeared in court and was held on a $75,000 bail.

Melissa Carroll, 30, was arrested in January and is facing charges including possession of narcotics and operating a drug factory, police said.

Police searched the School Street residence after a joint investigation by state and local police and the Danielson Probation Office found that fentanyl, heroin and crack cocaine were being sold in the home. They found approximately 183.4 grams of fentanyl/heroin and 58.5 grams of crack cocaine in the search, police said.

In the attic, police said they found seven firearms including two rifles, three shotguns, one revolver and a Bushmaster AR 15 rifle with laser sight, along with high-capacity magazines and ammunition, according to police.

This prompted a separate investigation which found Daniel in violation of concealing numerous firearms in the attic prior to his arrest. He was previously in prison for other charges.

New Britain Police arrested a man involved in a shooting on Corbin Avenue in New Britain on Sunday.

Police arrested one of the suspects, 37-year-old Jorge Gonzalez of Meriden, after learning that two individuals had a dispute and fired at each other.

The shooting happened at around 4:30 p.m.

Police found a firearm in Gonzalez's car when they arrested him in Meriden.

Both of the suspects in the shooting are believed to have known each other, according to police.

Gonzalez faced charges including first degree criminal attempt to committ assault, illegal discharge of a firearm, first degree reckless endangerment and possession of a firearm.

No injuries have been reported at this time.

Police said the investigation is ongoing and more arrests are anticipated.

He is being held on a $500,000 bond and is expected to appear in court on Monday.

Anyone with information is asked to call Lieutenant Adam Rembisz at 860-826-3131.

A woman and a firefighter are in the hospital after a house fire in Shelton on Sunday, according to the Shelton Fire Department.

A woman in her late 60s was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation and other injuries. She was the only person in the home at the time of the fire, firefighters said.

The woman had to be pulled out of the home, crews said.

A firefighter at the scene also broke his ankle in the home, the fire department said.

Firefighters said both the woman and firefighter are being treated at Bridgeport Hospital.

Crews said no one is unaccounted for in the residence.