As expected, Alex Karaban will show his skills to NBA scouts and coaches before deciding where to play next season. Karaban, a sophomore forward, has been a starter on the Huskies’ back-to-back national champions and has talked about going for a “three-peat” as a junior in 2024-25, but he has the option of entering the NBA Draft, working out and getting feedback from teams, before deciding ...

He was First Team All-NCAA Tournament, First Team All-East Region, and First Team All-Big East. On Wednesday, Cam Spencer earned first team honors for his work in the classroom as well. The UConn men’s basketball standout was named a First Team 2023-34 Academic All-American by the College Sports Communicators (CSC). The graduate guard became the fourth Husky to earn CSC Academic All-American ...

Nearly four hours into her termination hearing earlier this week, the oversight commission considering the removal of Chief Public Defender TaShun Bowden-Lewis asked her lawyer whether he wanted to continue until late at night or recess and reconvene another time. “You want to stay here until 10?” attorney Thomas Bucci whispered to Bowden-Lewis, though not softly enough to avoid being caught ...

Legendary Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is returning to Mohegan Sun Arena on Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. with his longtime touring act, His All Starr Band. The lineup of the All Starr Band this year will be Steve Lukather (the guitarist and songwriter from Toto), Edgar Winter (the guitarist whose 1970s hits included “Frankenstein” and “Free Ride”), Colin Hay (the singer-songwriter who fronted the ‘80s ...

Tears, shouts and interruptions marked residents’ comments Wednesday night over a proposal to exterminate geese in Bristol parks. As the city’s Board of Parks considered a proposal to kill resident geese that are causing excessive waste that is marring Veterans Memorial Park, dozens of residents shared conflicting opinions on how the city should proceed. One decried that “mass execution” could ...

When the Connecticut Sun take the court for the 2024 WNBA season, they’ll do so in some new threads. The team introduced its new Nike ‘Rebel Edition’ uniform, which it says was designed in collaboration with the Mohegan Tribe. The jersey features the wordmark “Keesusk” on the front, which means ‘sun’ in the Mohegan language. ‘Keesusk’ has been featured on the team’s alternate uniforms since ...

Police have charged a third person in connection with a fatal shooting outside a courthouse in Waterbury last month and expect to charge at least one more suspect. Nicholas Chiapponi, 26, of Glastonbury was arrested Wednesday in connection with the death of 26-year-old Jarron Chapman, according to the Waterbury Police Department. He was taken into custody by Waterbury Major Crimes Detectives ...

It’s a sad reality for UConn men’s basketball fans to think about, but next year, the Huskies won’t be led by Bristol native and seven-foot wunderkind Donovan Clingan in the middle. They’ll have to move on from the big man, who leaves Storrs and heads to the NBA with two championships in two years and a lifelong UConn legacy. Who will replace Clingan? In the hearts and minds of fans, it’s not ...

Two people are dead and a third is in critical condition following a fire at a multi-family home in Connecticut on Wednesday that police say is “criminal in nature.” The fire broke out Wednesday around 6 p.m. at a home located at 25 Geneva Ave. in Wallingford, where crews responded after receiving a 911 call from someone who reported hearing screaming from inside the home, according to the ...

An East Hartford man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $900,000 in restitution for defrauding the Medicaid program by submitting claims for counseling services that were done by someone who was unlicensed or never provided at all. Ramon Apellaniz, 39, faced sentencing Wednesday in Hartford Superior Court, where Judge David P. Gold ordered that he serve five ...