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CT police went looking for a stolen dirt bike. They found 2 men with outstanding warrants.
Two men have been arrested after a stolen dirt bike investigation led to discovery of one man with an outstanding warrant, and another with multiple outstanding warrants, state police said. Connecticut State Police troopers from Troop D-Danielson were asked on Wednesday, July 24, to help the Putnam Police Department with a stolen dirt bike investigation, according to a police report. The dirt ...
Report: UConn head men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley shopping book deal
UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley has followed in his father’s footsteps on the sideline and now, according to a report from Page Six, could be looking to join him on the bookshelf. Page Six reported that Hurley is shopping a book and that their sources say he is willing to discuss the $70 million offer he received, and turned down, to become the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers ...
UConn men’s basketball welcomes fans to an open practice in Gampel Pavilion on Aug. 3
UConn fans won’t have to wait long for their first chance to see the 2024-25 men’s basketball team play in Gampel Pavilion. The reigning back-to-back national champions announced Friday that there will be an open team workout hosted in Storrs on Aug. 3. The event is free and open to the public, with tickets available to be claimed on the UConn Athletics website. Doors at the East and South ...
Dom Amore: Farmington’s Peyton Miller may be 16, but he’s playing in a grown man’s game with New England Revolution
For Peyton Miller, the wait was over. And a remarkably short wait it was, or so it would seem for most of us. “It was amazing just to play for the club,” Miller said. “After the game, I stayed on the field, I think I was out there for 10 minutes after the game, just looking around, saying ‘Wow.'” Miller, all of 16 years of age, from Farmington’s Unionville section, where his father, Larry, was ...
‘We’re in crisis mode’: Dumping of pets rampant across Connecticut
Several Connecticut towns are facing a crisis as the number of abandoned pets surges. Karen Annis, president of the Meriden Humane Society Board of Directors, is calling the situation “brutal” and even “unprecedented” after 85 cats and dogs have entered the no-kill animal shelter since June 1. That’s a major uptick from the 59 cats and dogs that entered the shelter over the same time period ...
175 apartments, stores, medical offices to be built in small CT town’s center
Buoyed by $1.4 million in state aid to remediate water and ground pollution, a partnership of developers said Thursday that it expects to break ground next year on 175 new apartments, several retail spaces and a medical office building in Plainville’s town center. Connecticut has now put a total of $2.6 million into cleaning up the 15-acre property that was once the headquarters of the ...
CT gangster gets 14 years in prison for racketeering crimes that includes multiple shootings
A drug-dealing Connecticut gangster was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison this week for his part in a racketeering conspiracy that included involvement in five shootings. Federal prosecutors said Devon “JB” Suggs, 20, of New Haven, was a member of a group of drug dealers who called themselves Exit 8 because of their association with the area around Exit 8 off Interstate 91. Authorities ...
A CT woman avoided high-risk surgery. This is how doctors at UConn did it.
Jaime Sanchez was scheduled for a high-risk surgery. Her uterus was riddled with fibroids, benign tumors consisting of smooth muscle that were both inside and outside the lining of her uterus. She was to have a hysterectomy. But luckily for Sanchez, because her surgery had to be postponed, she became...
Dom Amore: Meet the sculptor who has cast Dwight Freeney’s legend in bronze
Ben Hammond saw enough of Dwight Freeney bearing down on quarterbacks to have an idea of what he wanted to express in bronze. “Dwight, he was a killer and I loved watching him play,” Hammond said. “He had an unstoppable move, no one could stop him one-on-one, so I was thinking, ‘we’re going to do this laser-focused, intense … I remember this great shot of him on the cover of Sports ...
Lamont shakes up troubled CT Public Utilities Regulatory Authority with appointment of utility executive
Gov. Ned Lamont made a much-anticipated change to the troubled Public Utilities Regulatory Authority on Thursday, announcing the imminent retirement of its longest serving member, John W. Betkoski II, and replacing him with David Arconti, a former Legislator now employed as a lobbyist for an electric utility. The personnel shift comes at time of open hostility between the state’s utilities and ...
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