West Hartford, CT

A 51-year-old Connecticut man was killed after being ejected during a single-vehicle crash. The crash took place in East Hartford around 9:15 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 18, on Route 2 near Exit 5. According to the state police, Glenn Pelletier, of Plainville, was killed when for an unknown reason, his 2005...

Some low-income Connecticut families with school children will receive payments this weekend of $258 for each child. Gov. Ned Lamont’s office announced Friday the “one-time, back-to-school, COVID-19 relief special benefit” will be paid out to families over the weekend. The program is called the Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund.

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (WTNH) — Emergency crews responded to a construction accident in Rocky Hill Friday morning where a man was impaled by equipment, police said. Fire, police crews, and Aetna Ambulance responded to 153 Parsonage St. for a construction-related incident. At the scene, police said officers located a 45-year-old man suffering from an impalement […]

WEST HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - A driver was clocked at 95 mph going up Avon Mountain, according to police in West Hartford. The West Hartford Police Department posted about the incident on its Facebook page Thursday. It said its traffic division conducted a speed enforcement detail on Albany Ave. near...

MIDDLETOWN, CT (WFSB) - A detective with the Connecticut State Police was suspended earlier this week. According to state police, Michael O’Hara’s police powers were suspended as of Aug. 15 and he was assigned to administrative duties “pending the outcome of an active investigation.”. They have not...

Five months after a devastating fire closed the downtown Hartford location of The Place 2 Be, the restaurant reopened to the public on Friday. The fire, which started when a person tossed a cigarette near the restaurant, caused $100,000 in damage to the interior Constitution Plaza eatery. “He smoked a cigarette and flipped it. Where it landed, it caught near the dumpster,” said Gina Luari, ...

A Plainville man was killed in a motorcycle crash on Route 2 in East Hartford on Thursday, according to the Connecticut State Police. Glenn Pelletier, 51, was driving his 2005 Harley-Davidson heading east on Route 2 near the Exit 5 off-ramp when he struck the concrete barrier on the left side of the road a little after 9 p.m. on Thursday night, state police said. The impact threw him from his ...

A Connecticut man was nabbed for driving drunk after police stopped him for driving in the wrong direction on a busy highway. The incident took place in Hartford County around 10 p.m., Monday, Aug. 15, in South Winsor on Route 5. Israel Sanchez-Vilchis, age 44, of New Britain was arrested...

Already this year, Hartford has seen more than two dozen gun homicides. Last year, there were 35 homicides in the city, which was the highest annual number in 18 years, according to Hearst Connecticut. But residents in the city are working every day to pull young people out of destructive...

CONNECTICUT, USA — This weekend may be bad for outdoor plants with the lack of rain but it'll be great for those with outdoor plans!. Across the state, festivals are being held this weekend to celebrate food, culture, and the arts!. Sign up for the FOX61 newsletters:. The Hartford...

DRONE 3 VIDEO: Security guard shot during shoplifting incident at Buckland Hills Mall. A security guard was shot during a shoplifting incident at the Buckland Hills Mall in Manchester on Friday. This is video from Drone 3 above the scene. Updated: 4 hours ago. Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon said we're...

CONNECTICUT, USA — Connecticut's drought continues to worsen as the summer season presses on. Eastern parts of Windham and New London counties have been upgraded to extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor as of Thursday morning. The area makes up about 13% of the state. But the rest of Connecticut is also experiencing a moderate or severe drought, depending on the location.

West Hartford, CT Tom Boyle and Steve Pappas of Chozick Realty completed the sale of 5 Highland St. Apartments for $6.5 million. 5 Highland St. is a 39-unit apartment complex located at the corner of Farmington Ave. and Highland St. in a residential location. Covered parking along with a unit mix of 12 one-bedroom and 27 two-bedroom apartments has kept this property in high demand and at full occupancy.

TORRINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) – State police arrested a man for allegedly driving 130 miles per hour on Route 8 in Torrington. Police said on Wednesday just before 7 p.m., troopers observed a white Dodge Challenger driving significantly faster than surrounding traffic. Troopers clocked the driver at a speed of 130 MPH on a calibrated speedometer […]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The Greater Hartford Puerto Rican Parade and Festival is coming up on Sunday, Aug. 21. Joe Garcia, the manager of engineering with Electric Boat, joined Good Morning Connecticut at 9 to talk about his involvement with the parade. Watch the full interview in the view player above.

WINDSOR — Since February, a local restaurant has failed six health inspections, including three times last month, records show. Michael Pepe, director of health in Windsor, said MofonGo, a Broad Street restaurant that serves a combination of Puerto Rican and American food, has remained open because it has passed all but one of its reinspections.

Gov. Ned Lamont announced that the Connecticut Department of Social Services will deliver a one-time COVID-19 relief special benefit to more than 15,000 low-income households as a way to alleviate the...

States are continuing to send monetary aid, in the form of child tax credits, tax rebates, etc., to help residents offset at least some of the impacts of inflation. Connecticut is the latest state to join this growing list, and it has come up with a unique way to make things more affordable in the state. This latest stimulus check from Connecticut comes in the form of a Sales Tax-Free Week. Connecticut’s second Sales Tax-Free Week will start on Sunday, and it is the first time that the state will hold two sales-tax holidays in one calendar year.

A Connecticut ice cream shop was cited for numerous violations during a health inspection earlier this month.Milkcraft in West Hartford had a routine inspection by the health department at noon on Friday, Aug. 5, according to a report from the West Hartford-Bloomfield Health District.The shop …

Connecticut police officers used force against Black and Hispanic people nearly twice as many times as they did against white people during a recent two-year period, according to a study released Thursday. The findings from the University of Connecticut’s Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy analyzed police use-of-force incidents reported...