Newtown Hires Trauma Expert to Help Community Cope
Newtown has hired a trauma expert and mental health adviser to determine what help town residents need more than three months after 20 children and six educators were fatally shot at an elementary...
View ArticlePolice Investigate Shooting Homicide in Hartford
A 22-year-old Hartford man was found shot to death on Sunday night in the Barbour Street neighborhood of Hartford. This is the third shooting in the neighborhood in a week. The victim's name has not...
View ArticleHundreds of Teens Mob Pedestrians in Chicago
More than two dozen teens were arrested Saturday night after dozens of mob groups began attacking pedestrians on the Magnificent Mile, an upscale area in Chicago. Police said 28 teens were arrested...
View ArticleI-95 South Westbrook Reopens
Interstate 95 Southbound was closed in Westbrook for hours between exits 65 and 64 because a box truck carrying cheese overturned, but the road has since reopened. The driver of the truck was conscious...
View ArticleATV Rider Attacks Pedestrian in Willimantic
An ATV operator attacked a pedestrian in Willimantic Saturday evening, police said. Four people were illegally riding ATVs in a residential neighborhood around 6:30 p.m. Saturday. One drove onto the...
View ArticleMan Dies in Dirt Bike Accident
A Plainfield man watched his 20-year-old son die after crashing his dirt bike Sunday afternoon, police said. The victim, Alantte "Tay" D. Jusino of 300 Putnam Road in Wauregan, was riding his 1991...
View ArticleTexas Law Enforcement Officials on Alert after Slaying of DA, Wife
After one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down in January, Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland carried a gun everywhere, even when walking the dog. He was extra careful when...
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Easter Bunny Pulled Over for Driving Motorcycle without Helmet
A motocyclist in full Easter bunny costume was pulled over Saturday on a Southern California freeway in a traffic stop that was caught on the California Highway Patrol officer's camera. The bunny --...
View ArticlePriest Accused of Meth Dealing Due in Court This Week
A Connecticut Roman Catholic priest accused of taking selling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of methamphetamine plans to plead guilty to one charge against him. Msg. Kevin Wallin, the...
View ArticleMan Charged in Fight Outside Shelton Bar
Shelton police have arrested a suspect in a fight outside a local bar that sent a Derby man to the hospital early on Easter morning. When police responded to a fight outside Cuppy’s Cafe, at 366 Coram...
View ArticleGoogle, Twitter Get In On the April Fool's Day Fun
The end of YouTube, smell-enabled Google search, Twitter paywall, bacon mouthwash. If these ideas sound like jokes, that's because they are. Monday is April Fool's Day and cheeky marketers and...
View ArticleHolmes to Hear If Prosecutors Will Seek Death Penalty
After a week of legal twists and turns, James Holmes will find out Monday if he could face execution if convicted in the Colorado theater attack that killed 12 people. Behind-the-scenes maneuvering...
View ArticleUndercover Operation Ends in Arrests in Honda Tire Thefts Case
After hours of surveillance, using night vision and new encrypted radio communications equipment, Branford Police have arrested two men suspected of stealing tires early on Saturday morning, and hope...
View ArticleWild ATV Ride Ends With Vandalism and Assault
Willimantic police are looking for the driver of an all-terrain-vehicle who damaged at least one property and assaulted a concerned neighbor over the weekend. The vandalism happened on South Ridge...
View ArticleI-84 Widening in Waterbury to Begin
The final phase of widening Interstate 84 in Waterbury will begin in the middle of next year and the project is expected to take five years. The road will widen from two to three lanes between exits 23...
View ArticleNewtown Families: Don't Grandfather High-Capacity Magazines
Families of victims killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting are making an emotional plea that any new state gun control law does not include a clause that grandfathers existing large-capacity...
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Arrest Made in L.A. Girl's Kidnapping, Search Expands
One person has been arrested in the case of a kidnapped 10-year-old Los Angeles girl who turned up barefoot and wounded in a neighborhood near her own last week. The Los Angeles Police Department...
View ArticleNew Fire Chief in New London
With "serious cuts" on the way in city government spending, New London's mayor swore in a new fire chief, Henry Kydd, the acting fire chief since October. "It's a relief to have the job, to be not...
View ArticleNew London Budget Cuts Impact Fire and Police Departments
New London's mayor is proposing some tough cuts in his 2013 budget--both the police and fire departments are on the list. "That does bother me to some degree," said Al Skidmore, who lives in downtown...
View ArticleSearch Warrant Sheds Light on Texas DA Murder
Information revealed in a search warrant released Monday sheds light on the investigation into the murders of the Kaufman County district attorney and his wife. In the document, officials said a family...
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