A 58-year-old New Haven man is dead after a forklift fell on top of him at a business on North Main Street in Branford on Monday.

Police said the man was transporting a machine on a flatbed truck, stopped to put air in a truck tire and had to adjust the position of the forklift when it fell off the truck and landed on top of him.

Branford police are investigating and Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials have responded.

Police have not released the man’s name because they are notifying family.

A robbery near Roberto Clemente school in New Haven and the discharge of a BB gun led to lockdown at the school and the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center and Monday and there was a large police presence after a false report of an active shooter at the health facility, according to police.

Police said a BB hit a window at the Roberto Clemente school and there was a lockdown. A notification system also goes out to a particular radius, which included the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center, police said.

The health center went into lockdown and someone inside the building reached out to a family member about a possible shooter, police said. The family member misunderstood, then called 911 and said there was an active shooter at the health center, according to police.

Police responded to the building and are searching it as a precaution.

“There is no danger to the public,” police said.

Police are still investigating the incident with the BB gun and have not apprehended a suspect.

No injuries are reported.

The Price Chopper supermarket in Vernon will be closing.

A news release the public relations firm for the supermarket released on Monday says the Price Chopper at 35 Talcottville Road will close permanently on May 28.

“Price Chopper has a history in the Vernon community and we value the relationships that we’ve built with our customers, local community and trade partners and teammates. After thoroughly reviewing the store’s current and future viability, we’ve concluded that closure is the appropriate action to take with this location,” Mona Golub, vice president of public relations and consumer services, said in a news release. 

The company said it is offering most employees positions in one of three “sister” stores close to Vernon and severance packages and outplacement assistance will be offered to those for whom there isn’t an opportunity.

No other Price Chopper/Market 32 locations will be affected.

“It’s never easy to close a store, but imperative to make business decisions that support the company’s continued health and growth,” Golub added.

Chance is getting his lunch back.

The famed Chicago rapper tweeted about Wendy’s Saturday, saying among his list of "positive affirmations" that the fast food chain "WILL bring back spicy nuggets at some point."

Turns out, he was right.

Wendy’s initially responded to the tweet saying "It won’t be today, but there’s always a chance."

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Two hours later, the chain said "the people in charge" decided if Chance’s tweet got two million likes they would bring spicy chicken nuggets back to the menu.

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By Sunday evening, it became official.

“THIS IS NOT A DRILL!” Wendy’s tweeted. “Spicy Chicken Nuggets are coming back! Y’all are crazy! That took like a day and a half! WHAT?”

Timing on when the nuggets will return to the menu wasn’t released but the tweet said it would be "soon." Wendy’s said in a statement to NBC 5 that it could not say when the item will be back on the menu but "we can promise you Wendy's Spicy Chicken Nuggets will be just as good as you remember - and worth all the hype!" 

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It's been one of the wettest Aprils on record, but Monday's sun meant people who work outside were finally able to complete some of the tasks they had to put on hold.

"Constant battle. We're always battling the weather," said East Lyme Park Foreman Jason Alves.

Alves and his crew used Monday's welcomed day of sunshine to paint the soccer, lacrosse and baseball fields, and mow them. If they can, they'll start in early April. It's early May.

"Everything's underwater," Alves laughed.

A few baseball games and a softball game were canceled Monday to get the tasks done, according to Alves.

"We have the soccer lines down. They should be playable in a day or so pending any more rain," Alves said.

East Lyme resident Denise Scaplen soaked up the sun on her walk in Niantic Monday. As a professional gardener, she called the wet weather "draining."

"A lot of the bulbs are dying, people are complaining about their plants. But it's just so wet," Scaplen said.

When the weather is this nice, people could finally break for lunch outside including customers at Tony D's Craft Creamery.

"April has been very brutal, but today the sun's shining. So I feel a little optimistic today," owner Anthony D'Angelo said.

D'Angelo had staff planting flowers and customers buying ice cream. His hope is that May brings more of this kind of weather. He opened for the season on April 13 .

"We've had two sunny days so far. This is the third," D'Angelo said.

A favorite spring activity for many is gardening. But the ground has been so saturated from all the rain in April and the beginning of May.

"Normally I get started earlier than this, but the weather has been too cold, too rainy," said Karen Simpson of Waterford.

Monday could be the day she finally made a purchase at Smith's Acres in Niantic.

"I've been here a few times already, holding off waiting to buy things because the weather isn't quite there yet. But I'm shopping," Simpson laughed.

Owner Teri Smith said there's plenty that is safe to plant. But the number one question she's been getting from customer's is, "when the heck is the rain going to stop?"

"The ground is soggy. We had a tractor stuck in the mud this week," Smith said.

They planted corn Monday and Smith is concerned the ground might be too wet and cold.

"I worry that maybe the corn is going to rot," said said, adding they'll replant in a few days.

But there is some silver lining to the recent weather, according to Smith.

"The good news is, because it's been cloudy and overcast lately, there hasn't been frost for weeks and weeks," she said.

Since the sun came to play, so did Amy Saucier's kids at McCook Point Beach.

"I have four kids of my own and I watch my nieces sometimes," Saucier said. "It's nice to have the weather participate with us."

They've had some cabin fever from all the rain. Monday was the first day of the season they got their feet in the sand.

"Awesome. We are so ready for good weather," Saucier said. "This is what we needed."

The power we use every day in Connecticut is generated almost entirely from natural gas and the Millstone Nuclear Plant in Waterford. But soon there will be a new source of renewable, clean energy powering homes in New England every time the wind blows.

Offshore wind will revolutionize Connecticut’s power grid. It’s new, it’s surprisingly cheap and soon giant wind turbines will be popping up of the coast of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, powering hundreds of thousands of homes throughout New England.

On Block Island a farm of towering wind turbines is spinning off Mohegan Bluffs. This is the first offshore wind farm in American, but it won’t be the last.

"The areas that are currently designated as wind turbine areas off southern New England are affectionately known as the Saudi Arabia of wind,” said Matthew Morrissey of Ørsted U.S. Offshore Wind.

New England’s fickle weather – from nor’easters to tropical storms, make it perfectly suited for wind power. Connecticut and Rhode Island entered an agreement with Eversource and Ørsted, a Danish company, to build 700 megawatts of wind turbines halfway between Martha’s Vineyard and Block Island. It will be called Revolution Wind.

"Offshore wind is one of the most exciting resources we're seeing in the northeast right now,” said Mary Sotos, deputy commissioner for Energy at the Department of Energy and Environmental Protect.

"We've been working with our neighboring states to be able to purchase large quantities of that wind,” she explained.

"Offshore wind power is going to be around for a long time and provide clean, renewable power at competitive rates to rate payers in New England," Morrissey said.

Connecticut’s first offshore wind farm will begin construction in 2021 and be operational by 2023. The 70 turbines will power roughly 100,000 homes in the state and an additional quarter million homes in Rhode Island.

A commitment to revitalize and develop the harbor in New London was one of the reasons Ørsted's bid was so attractive.

"We're seeing a real commitment to work with our prized port because it has so many features that are really well suited to assemble these large components," Sotos said.

Ørsted, Eversource and the state will invest $93 million into New London’s State Pier, creating jobs and building the infrastructure to support the burgeoning wind industry from New Jersey to Cape Cod. 

"There will also be additive economic investment and development with companies in the supply chain that will participate, compete and win to help build America's first round of offshore wind farms," Morrissey said.

While this will be the state's first foray into offshore wind there's no sign of the momentum stopping. The legislature is contemplating upping the state's commitment to wind energy in the future with up to a third of our energy coming from the wind in the coming decades.

NBC Connecticut is looking at climate change and its impact on our state.

Climate scientists agree that the globe is warming, and that it’s due to humans. The question is – what does a warmer world look like in New England, and is there anything we can do about it?

Shorter winters, longer and more intense heat waves, rising sea level, and bigger rain storms – all these things show that climate change isn’t something that’s coming, it’s something that is here.

If you've lived in Connecticut long enough you know the climate is changing.

Summers are hotter and winters are warmer. Since 1970 the average temperature in Hartford has increased nearly 2 degrees. For Connecticut as a whole it's nearly 3 degrees.

While weather varies from season to season, the long term trends are clear. As fossil fuels are burned by cars and power plants the carbon dioxide released acts as a greenhouse gas, warming the globe, and also warming Connecticut.

On Long Island Sound water temperatures are warming, changing the types of marine life that can survive and thrive.

Warming oceans and melting ice sheets are also causing sea level to rise on Long Island Sound. In the last 100 years the sound has risen by nearly a foot, and that pace is accelerating. While a foot doesn't seem like much we're already seeing an increase in flooding. Storms like Hurricane Sandy will produce more severe flooding in the future.

By 2050, a 1 in 100 year flood today will be more like a 1 in 23 year flood. Floods that happened once in a life time will be nearly 4 times as frequent.

As the atmosphere warms it can hold more water vapor. The result is heavier rainstorms. In the northeast, heavy precipitation events have increased 55 percent in the last 60 years. Flash floods are becoming more common as every degree we warm the atmosphere can hold about 4 percent more water.

Climate change impacts us every day. As the earth continues to warm the impacts will become more and more severe here in Connecticut and throughout the globe.

Just last week the globe reached a carbon dioxide level of 415 parts per million - a level not seen in more than 2 million years.

Torrington police are investigating reports of a man exposing himself to girls Monday morning.

Police said they received two separate reports that the man in a white SUV drove up to the victims as they were walking to school, called them over to his car, exposed himself, then drove away. Both incidents happened around 7 a.m. near Brightwood Avenue and East Wood Road, police said.

Investigators stress that there was no indication that the man was trying to lure the girls into his SUV.

Anyone with information on this case should contact the Torrington Police Department at 860-489-2090.

Bud Light will be releasing special, limited-edition, rainbow-inspired bottles to celebrate World Pride, the beverage manufacturer announced Monday.

The bottles will be available at bars nationwide throughout the month of June, which is national Pride Month.

The bottles will make their debut at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York City this weekend.

"For twenty consecutive years, Bud Light has partnered with GLAAD in its mission to accelerate acceptance of LGBTQ people," Zeke Stokes, GLAAD Chief Programs Officer said in a press release. "Bud Light stood with the community at a time when many brands did not, and their continued outspoken support sets the bar for other global brands."

Bud Light plans to donate $1 to GLAAD for every case of rainbow bottles sold between May 27 and June 30, up to $150,000.

Authorities in Indiana said Monday that the 1972 murder of a college student has been cleared, marking the latest example of a cold case solved through DNA testing and genealogy, NBC News reports.

Terre Haute Police Chief Shawn Keen identified the killer of 19-year-old Pamela Milam as Jeffrey Lynn Hand. Hand was killed in a shootout with police in 1978 during an attempted kidnapping, Keen said in a news release.

Milam was last seen on the night of Sept. 15, 1972, leaving a sorority event at Indiana State University in Terra Haute, southwest of Indianapolis, Keen said. Her body was found bound and gagged in the trunk of her car the next night.

“It’s been a long 46 years, seven months and 20 days,” Milam’s sister, Charlene Sanford, said during a Monday news conference. “Many of us, as we got older, thought we would die before we ever learned who killed our sister.”

 "We were happy to know he hasn't been out there living a great life for 47 years," she added.

Yet another pharmaceutical company has recalled blood pressure medication over concerns that long-term use could increase cancer risks.

Vivimed Life Sciences has recalled Losartan Potassium Tablets USP, distributed by New Jersey-based Heritage Pharmaceuticals, due to higher levels of a possible carcinogen than the Food and Drug Administration allows.

Nineteen lots of the drug at the 25 mg, 50 mg and 100 mg doses have been called back because of elevated levels of an N-Nitroso-N-methyl-4-aminobutyric acid (NMBA) impurity, the FDA said.

"Based on the available information, the risk of developing cancer in a few patients following long-term use of the product containing high levels of the impurity NMBA cannot be ruled out," a company statement on the FDA's website read.

Losartan Potassium USP is typically used to help treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure. It can also be used to treat kidney failure in those with Type 2 diabetes.

The FDA encourages all users of the medication to contact their medical providers before they stop taking the drug. If users have experienced any effects possibly related to taking the drug, they are encouraged to contact their doctor.

Just last week, drug giant Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. joined the increasing number of companies taking the popular blood pressure and heart medicine off shelves over cancer concerns.

Teva voluntarily recalled thousands of bottles of Losartan Potassium USP, which at the time was the third such recall in about a week. There have been a series of nearly two dozen similar recalls sweeping the country since last summer. 

The affected Losartan Potassium tablets being recalled are described as: 

• Losartan Potassium tablets, USP 25 mg, are light-green, film-coated, teardrop-shaped biconvex tablet with “LK 25” on one side and ">" on the other side.
• Losartan Potassium tablets, USP 100 mg, are dark green, film-coated, oval-shaped biconvex tablets with “LK100” on one side and ">" on the other side.

Other manufacturers have recalled losartan in recent months, but some have involved different potential contaminants. Be sure to contact your health care provider or pharmacy if you have any questions about losartan overall. 

Call this a classic "only in Florida" moment.

Deputies in Charlotte County found dozens of reptiles in a man and woman's possession early Monday morning during a traffic stop in Punta Gorda, NBC affiliate WBBH-TV reports.

After being stopped for running through a stop sign, the couple told deputies they were coming from collecting frogs and snakes at an underpass nearby.

When deputies asked what kind of animals they collected, the woman opened her backpack at her feet, where there were over 40 small, three-striped turtles, according to WBBH.

When asked if she had anything else, the woman pulled a foot-long alligator from her yoga pants, Charlotte County Sheriff's officials said.

The two were cited for possessing the reptiles, according to the Florida Fish Wildlife and Conservation Commission. The animals were seized and then released.

Demands for action continue in Hamden after one of their police officers was involved in a shooting that injured a young woman in New Haven last month.

Hundreds turned out for a meeting Monday as town leaders took up a plan to hire an expert to oversee the investigation into the shooting.

The council leader admitted after hearing from the people here that this proposed resolution doesn’t cut it.

Now the hope is for a better and stronger response that many are calling for.

Community members spoke out before the Hamden Legislative Council. They believe the council’s response falls short after an officer from Hamden and Yale opened fired on a car in New Haven, hurting a woman inside last month.

“I don’t think anyone watching the video would disagree that something went horribly wrong,” said resident Rashanda McCollum.

McCollum says she’s concerned what the future looks like for her five-month-old son, Justice, and hopes the council takes the right steps.

“In this case there were two young people sitting in a car listening to love songs moments before they were shot and I think it’s the grace of God they didn’t die. But to be honest, it could have been my son, 10 years from now, 20 years from now,” she said.

The council had proposed hiring an independent expert to look over the local review of the shooting.

But many feeling that, among other ideas, did not go far enough. Some are pushing for a fully independent investigation.

Some think another investigation is not needed now with both the town and state reviewing the issue.

Mayor Curt Balzano Leng said the town should look into the idea of creating a Citizens Review Board, which is something many tonight called for.

But the mayor says he’s not sure an independent investigation is the right step now, as the town has already taken other actions.

“We hired an outside, independent expert to come in and help. He’s an expert in excessive force and police policy and procedure,” Leng said.

The plan is to rework the resolution and bring it back for debate in two weeks.

The officer involved in that shooting remains on leave.

A vote on Tuesday will determine what happens to a school in Tolland dealing with a crumbling foundation.

Community members have had several meetings, all to prepare them for Tuesday's vote.

It's a big decision, but the district said it's a decision that needs to be made to fix the Birch Grove Primary School's crumbling foundation.

Fixing Birch Grove Primary School will cost $46 million and on Tuesday, residents will be voting to approve that bond.

The state has agreed to pay 52 percent of that, but that leaves more than $20 million up to the taxpayers to cover.

The town said they're still hoping for federal support as well.

This comes after tests confirmed the mineral linked to crumbling concrete called pyrrhotite is present in the foundation.

If the referendum is approved, the two-year construction project will begin as soon as this school year ends.

“I would expect that within days to weeks after the end of the school year and kids officially vacating, that a lot of progress will be seen on this building alone and those portables will be out there by the first week in August or mid-August at the latest,” said Tolland Superintendent of Schools Walter Willett.

During the repairs, students will be in portable classrooms.

Voting begins at 6 a.m. at the Tolland Library in the Program Room.

Police are calling a 3-year-old girl's death in Queens a homicide after she was found in a burning car that had its doors chained shut from the inside and the girl's father was taken into custody.

The NYPD identified the girl as Zoey Pereira, of Queens.

She died Sunday at a hospital after police found her, critically injured, in a blazing Audi near Baisley and Rockaway boulevards in Springfield Gardens. The medical examiner's office later ruled her death a homicide.

A memorial with candles and balloons is growing in the area.

Officers then discovered a 39-year-old man, later said to be the father of the girl, covered in burns, in a nearby park. He's in custody and hospitalized.

No charges have been filed thus far. Medical examiners are working to determine the cause of the girl's death, and police are investigating the circumstances.

The investigation is ongoing. 

When the Piper single-engine aircraft landed at Sikorsky Airport in Stratford in June 2017, authorities were waiting and found 400 pounds of marijuana on the plane, according to federal authorities. They said that was just part of a drug trafficking operation that earned millions of dollars for the people involved.

Federal officials said the marijuana found on that plane was destined for several people to distribute in Connecticut. Now three men have pleaded guilty to being involved in what officials call a large-scale marijuana trafficking ring, according to John Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

His office said 40-year-old Scott Bodnar, of Ansonia, 34-year-old Terrell Givens, of Beacon Falls, and 60-year-old Donald Burns, of Milford, have pleaded guilty to federal offenses.

It was 2016 when the Federal Aviation Administration began investigating Burns’ plane, which was making regular flights between Stratford, Connecticut, and northern California via the southwest United States according to federal authorities.

The drug seizure happened after Burns flew from northern California to Lubbock, Texas on June 28, 2017 and the next day flew from Texas to Arkansas, and then to West Virginia and Connecticut, according to federal authorities. When the plane landed at Sikorsky Airport in Stratford, investigators found around 400 pounds of marijuana in vacuum-sealed packages, federal officials said. They said the drugs were intended for Bodnar, Givens and others to distribute in Connecticut.

Investigators determined that the people involved in the ring had earned millions of dollars by trafficking nearly two tons of marijuana from California to Connecticut over two years, according to a news release from Durham’s office.

Authorities said Bodnar, Givens and others also laundered around $6 million to buy marijuana in California, pay for their travel to and from California and to pay Burns to transport the marijuana.

On May 2, Bodnar pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute, 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana, and one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.

Givens pleaded guilty to the same charges on May 3.

On May 6, Burns pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute, 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana.

The three defendants agreed to forfeit cash as well as Burns’ Piper aircraft, a 2012 Toyota Camry belonging to Bodnar, a 2009 Jaguar XF and approximately $8,000 in jewelry belonging to Givens.

A disturbance at a night club in Stamford led to the arrest of a convicted felon who was found with a stolen gun early Monday morning, according to police.

Officers were called to the Mystique Night Club around 1 a.m. after getting a report of a disturbance.

When police arrived at the scene, officers said the disturbance had already seemed to end. During their investigation, police said they heard a gunshot.

Officers responded to the area of the gunshot and detained Robert C. Anderson, according to police. He was standing near his car and a black gun was found in his back seat.

Investigators said nobody was shot during the incident and it is unclear why the gun was fired.

According to police, Anderson is a convicted felon and does not have a permit to carry a gun. The gun found was also reported stolen several years ago.

Anderson was taken into custody and is facing charges including criminal possession of a firearm, carrying a firearm without a permit, possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle and theft of a firearm. He is being held on a $100,000 bond and has a court date of May 17.

Police said Anderson has been remanded back to prison for violating his parole.

Many parents use GPS apps to track their children. But few parents know what many teenagers do – that their GPS location can secretly be faked.

It's called "GPS spoofing."

"Almost all my friends, their parents track them," said Abi Ezmerlian, 18, a Fort Worth high school senior.

Her mother can know her location with a few taps on her cellphone.

"I just don't have to worry," Debbie Ezmerlian said. "The other thing I don't have to do is text her, 'Where are you?'"

The teenager has no problem with it.

"I feel a peace of mind in it, I feel safe, that if something does happen, I do feel safe, because she will find me," Abi Ezmerlian said.

Some children are finding ways to fool their parents by tricking the GPS. We're not going to give any lessons on how to do it.

But experts say it's easy to fake your location to not only hide where you really are, but also make it seem like you're somewhere you're not.

"I certainly see that it's possible. It's eye-opening and it's a bit frightening," said technology expert James Bier.

Bier, a father of two teens himself, runs a technology staffing company in Richardson, Texas.

"It's that simple," he said. "It can literally implant you in another state or country. With the technology, with the app development that's out there today, it's nearly undetectable."

Bier said a parent checking on their teen's location has no way to know whether it is accurate.

"You never know," he said.

For Abi's mother, just knowing the technology exists is a concern, even though she said she has total trust in her.

"I mean it's surprising, it really is," Debbie Ezmerlian said.

Bier also said it's a concern.

"As a parent myself, I trust my kids," he said. "I sure hope that trust never gets broken."

Several active ingredients in popular sunscreens don't just sit on the top of the skin, they are absorbed into the bloodstream, according to a new study from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, NBC News reported.

Researchers determined that far higher levels of these ingredients are absorbed into people’s systems than the amount considered benign enough to avoid safety testing — in some cases, as much as 40 times higher than the threshold amount, according to the study published Monday in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA.

Researchers noted it is not clear whether the chemicals tested by the FDA are harmful when there is systemic exposure and calls for further testing to determine the safety of that ingredient for repeated use.

“These products are used to prevent skin cancer,” said study coauthor Dr. Theresa Michele, director of the division of nonprescription drug products at the FDA. “It’s very important from a public health perspective that people use them, especially as skin cancer rates are increasing. Right now, we know that there are benefits from these products and we don’t know if there are any harms.

The four ingredients in question are avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene and ecamsule.

A man who Stratford Police said avoided sentencing for multiple charges for nearly three years has been arrested.

Police said 24-year-old Travis Walton was arrested following a narcotics search warrant that was executed at an apartment on Woodend Road.

Walton is a fugitive who has avoided sentencing for approximately three years for weapons and domestic violence offenses, according to officers.

The warrant was served by members of the Stratford Police Department's Narcotics Unit, along with patrol and detectives. Marijuana, packing materials and money were also seized, police added.

Walton was taken into custody on five outstanding warrants with a total of $400,000 cash bond. He was unable to post bond and was placed in lockup and given a court date of May 7.