Why Tweeting Toasters May Change Your Life
Social media isn't just for people anymore. Inanimate objects are taking to Twitter too -- and changing the way the people think about appliances. The account @mytoaster is an actual toaster that has...
View ArticleAlexion Plans to Expand in New Haven
Just a month after breaking ground on its new home in New Haven, Alexion Pharmaceuticals plans to expand. The company already planned to be the anchor for Downtown Crossing, which will transform an...
View ArticleTwitter Transparency Report Shows Rise in Information Requests
The United States government requested information on 1,319 Twitter accounts in 902 separate requests over a six-month period, according to a transparency report released by Twitter on Wednesday. The...
View ArticleNAACP Meets With Hartford Officials
The NAACP is demanding that the City of Hartford fire a dispatcher and a Police Sergeant after they were caught making racist comments over police radios. A Hartford emergency dispatcher is on paid...
View ArticleSales Tax-Free Week Starts on Aug. 18
Start going through your closet and make your back-to-school list. You have two and a half weeks until the annual sales tax-free week. Between August 18 and August 24, you will not have to pay tax on...
View ArticleWest Hartford Chief Stops DUI Suspect in Middletown
West Hartford's police chief helped stop a driver allegedly operating a car under the influence of drugs in Middletown. Chief Tracey Gove was driving along Route 9 in Haddam when he noticed a car...
View ArticleDeaf Duo Sues Cinema Company
Two deaf men in Connecticut have filed a lawsuit against Bow Tie Cinemas over what they claim is a lack of access to movies for the hearing impaired. Michael Fiorino's loved the movies since he was a...
View ArticleFilner Never Received Sexual Harassment Training: Lawyer
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has never received sexual harassment training, said his lawyer in a letter to the city attorney’s office. NBC 7 has obtained a letter from attorneys representing Filner in a...
View ArticleWomen Come Forward After Road Rage Incidents
Fairfield Police are on the look out for a guy who has a serious case of road rage. Investigators say he has terrorized two mothers over the summer; both had their special needs' children with them at...
View ArticleSwearing In for Police Officers in Waterbury
The Waterbury Police Department desperately needs more officers. On Wednesday night, it was one step closer to filling the ranks. “We need more police presence that's the bottom line,” explained...
View ArticleUConn Women’s Basketball Team Meets Obama, Again
During their summer vacation, the UConn women’s basketball team met President Barack Obama. The team made the trip to the White House on Wednesday, where the president congratulated the women for...
View ArticleDoctor’s Sex Assault Trial Goes to Jury
Closing arguments took place on Wednesday morning in the sexual assault trial of a former East Hartford doctor. Dr. Edwin Njoku is charged with sexually assaulting several female patients and is on...
View ArticleGround Beef Recalled for Possible E. Coli
A Kansas-based company is recalling more than 50,000 pounds of ground beef after a sample of its product tested positive for E. coli. The National Beef Packing Company issued a voluntary recall of its...
View ArticleInjury Reported in Glastonbury Crash
One person was taken to Hartford Hospital after a serious crash on Route 2 West in Glastonbury this morning. The person was ejected when the vehicle went over a guardrail between exits 10 and 8,...
View ArticleSWAT Team Responds in Hartford
The SWAT team was at Franklin Avenue and Standish Street in Hartford this morning to help with a drug investigation. Police said this was a standard vice and narcotics search warrant execution and SWAT...
View ArticleSears Sold File Cabinets Containing Confidential Records
Personal information of hundreds of former Sears employees, including their Social Security numbers, was found in file cabinets a South Side Chicago man bought at a liquidation sale last weekend....
View ArticleAlert Issued for Missing Manchester Teen
Police have issued a Silver Alert for a 13-year-old Manchester boy who has been missing since this morning. When Noah Barnett was last seen, he was wearing a white zip-up hooded Fila sweatshirt, black...
View ArticleFunerals for Four Victims of Hialeah Shooting Held Thursday
Family members and friends said their final goodbyes Thursday to four of the victims of last week's horrific Hialeah shooting. The funerals of Italo and Samira Pisciotti, Merly Niebles and Pricilla...
View ArticleArrest in Triple-Fatal Wrong-Way Crash in Old Lyme
State police have arrested a Rhode Island man in connection with a wrong-way crash on Interstate 95 in December that killed three people, including a mother and daughter. State police said Frank...
View ArticleFirefighters Respond to TGI Fridays in Manchester
The TGI Friday’s in Manchester is evacuated this morning as the fire department responds to a fire. The restaurant is located at 209 Hale Road and this is at least the fourth fire at the same location...
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