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Hartford holds gun buyback program

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:18:27 GMT

Hartford police and the city's hospitals are teaming up to offer a day long gun buyback program, giving out gift cards in exchange for working weapons.

No bipartisan goodwill for Conn. budget

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:30:41 GMT

Connecticut legislators drew national attention for their bipartisan agreement on gun control, but that spirit of goodwill appears absent as they try to reach a final budget deal with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

Body found in woods

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:45:36 GMT

State police say DNA testing has shown that human remains founds in the woods near the Bridgeport-Trumbull line are those of the missing Eastern Connecticut State University student.

Fatal shooting in New Haven

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:45:27 GMT

Investigators are trying to identify the man who opened fire on several people in New Haven, killing one man and wounding two others as nightclubs were closing.

Mom, daughter charged with burning home

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:57:53 GMT

A mother and daughter have been charged with setting a fire that heavily damaged the mom's home in Stratford.

Woman charged with making bomb threats

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:42:45 GMT

A New Haven woman has been charged with making bomb threats against Connecticut courthouses.

CT commuter trains collide; 70 injured

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:16:58 GMT

Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 70 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy said.

Man guilty in Yankee Stadium fraud case

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:34:22 GMT

A British citizen living in Westport has been convicted in a fraud case that involved plans to sell dirt from the old Yankee Stadium in New York.

Senate passes bill for gay vets

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:02:59 GMT

A Connecticut bill that would restore state benefits to gay and lesbian veterans discharged under the U.S. military's former "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is moving to the governor's desk.

Woman arrested for trespassing

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:51:00 GMT

Greenwich police say a Canadian woman who was on a watch list for trespassers was arrested Wednesday at a polo field where Britain's Prince Harry was preparing to play in a charity match.

Lawmakers consider indoor tanning ban

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:31:24 GMT

Young people in Connecticut could be banned from using indoor tanning services under a bill being considered.

Hartford PD shooting same day as Spfld

Anthony Fay — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:22:38 GMT

One person was shot and killed by Hartford police, less than 24 hours after a man was fatally shot by Springfield police officers.

Yale fined for not reporting sex crimes

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:03:13 GMT

Yale University has been fined $165,000 by the U.S. Department of Education for failing to report four sex crimes that occurred on campus in 2001 and 2002.

Victim's tied up in armed home invasion

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:18:54 GMT

A frightening afternoon yesterday for a New Haven couple. Police say they were held at gun point, threatened, and watched the perpetrators steal their belongings.

1 charged for damaging casino sculpture

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:47:04 GMT

A Massachusetts man has been charged with damaging a glass sculpture at the Mohegan Sun casino.

Drugs sold out of UHart dorm room

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:41:48 GMT

Twenty two-year-old Tonia Wande of Lynn, Massachusetts, was arrested over the weekend and appeared in court Monday morning for allegedly selling drugs out of his dorm room.

Suspect: this time I'm not admitting it

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:37:28 GMT

A West Haven man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl, police said.

Panel: Tear down Sandy Hook, rebuild

Sat, 11 May 2013 02:55:16 GMT

A task force of elected officials in Newtown on Friday recommended tearing down Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December, and rebuilding on the same site.

Meteorite lands on Waterbury home

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:24:09 GMT

A small meteorite landed on a house in Waterbury on Wednesday.

CT cigarette tax

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:40:54 GMT

The American Heart Association is urging Connecticut lawmakers to increase the state's cigarette tax.

One dead in house fire

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:24:53 GMT

One person is reported dead after a fire at a two-story home in Suffield Wednesday night.

92-year-old woman attacked & robbed

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:45:10 GMT

A man claiming to be delivering a package beat up a 92-year-old woman at her Enfield home.

PD: man called 911, hit cop with 2x4

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:41:12 GMT

A man was arrested Wednesday and taken for a psychiatric evaluation after beckoning police to a Winchester alley and then assaulting responding officers with rocks and

Newlywed cashes in $100k scratch ticket

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:38:45 GMT

When a Torrington newlywed made a pit stop to gas up while driving with her husband last Saturday, she didn't expect that the stop would change her life.

Final resting spot?

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:39:43 GMT

Connecticut man offers burial plot next to his mother to family of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

2 burned in Enfield propane tank leak

Anthony Fay — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:43:45 GMT

Two workers at an Enfield metal shop had to be taken to Baystate Medical Center, after they were burned by propane from a leaking cylinder Tuesday afternoon.

3 CT schools evacuated over bomb threat

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:56:34 GMT

Three high schools in Bridgeport, Connecticut have evacuated after police received four bomb threats.

Hamden plot offered to Tsarnaev family

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:48:26 GMT

A Yale Divinity School graduate wants to donate his burial plot at Mount Carmel cemetery in Hamden to the dead Boston bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

CT talking and driving fines may go up

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:21:42 GMT

Some Connecticut lawmakers are frustrated by drivers who ignore the state's ban on talking and texting on hand-held cell-phones.

Still no decision for Sandy Hook future

Joyce Ogirri — Sat, 04 May 2013 14:30:42 GMT

There's still no decision for the future of Sandy hook Elementary School, where a gunman massacred 20 children and 6 educators.