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Fans of old arcade games and wood-fired pizza may have a new favorite place to grab a slice in Tolland County. Square Peg Pizzeria, which already has seven restaurant and food truck locations throughout the state, opened its newest location in Vernon at 226 Talcottville Rd. (Route 83) on Frida…

Storrs - This is a story about hope. Belief. About combating stigma. About challenging conventional thinking to find a better way. About the counterintuitive. This is a story in Storrs on Tuesday, when the country’s only two nationally ranked northern college baseball programs will play in typical early spring New England elements: cloudy, 49 degrees, yuck. No. 13 Boston College and No. 24 UConn, the northern lights of the latest Baseball America poll, two schools with some of college baseball’s worst geographic and meteorological disadvantages … and now two schools that have found some salvation in the unlikely gateway of Division III.

Manchester Police said they arrested a Hartford man Saturday after they learned he had “inappropriate” conversations with a minor. Lt. Ryan Shea said the Manchester Police Department’s Child Investigations Unit received information that Christopher Delorde Cameron, 39, of Hartford, was having “inappropriate” conversations with a 10-year-old victim via text message over the course of several weeks.

On March 27, 1877, the Staffordville Reservoir Company’s dam burst, flooding the valley for a distance of five miles and causing the loss of two lives. The dam, on the east branch of the Willimantic River, gave way at 6 a.m. and washed away bridges, smaller dams, houses, tenements, a church, livery stables and the manufacturing district from Staffordville to Stafford Springs, placing about one thousand people out of work. Most of the mills destroyed were cotton and woolen factories. The freight depot, a large number of freight cars, and two to three miles of the New London Northern railroad were also destroyed or swept away. At the time the reservoir was one and one quarter miles long and covered six-hundred acres. The dam had been recently raised several feet and at the time of the flood was full for the first time since the changes. The pressure of the additional water and the recent rains caused its failure.

The UConn men’s basketball team has made a run to the Final Four for the first time since 2014, and it will naturally bring financial benefits to the school’s athletic program and coach Dan Hurley. Hurley’s contract calls for bonuses and extensions that will add up to close to $700,000 as he leads his team deeper into March Madness. When he arrived in March 2018, Hurley signed a six-year ...

STORRS, Conn. — Players on teams that make it to the quarterfinals of a national championship don't do it by themselves. Sure, they pull off the alley-oops and slam dunks, but there is a leader on the sidelines who helps strategize plays and motivate the team to make those wins happen.

MANCHESTER, Conn. (WTNH) — A Sunday afternoon fire in Manchester destroyed a single-family residence, displacing nine adults and two children, according to officials. The fire happened at about 4 p.m. on Foster Street. When crews arrived, they saw heavy smoke coming from the roof and fire coming from the rear of the building. The fire […]

SEATTLE — It was Selection Sunday and Azzi Fudd was told that junior guard Paige Bueckers had been a member of the UConn women's basketball team for 100 games. And had played in only 46 of them, including 15 in two seasons alongside Fudd. "It's very frustrating," Fudd said....

South Windsor was first founded in 1659. While the town has a rich historical past, including being the birthplace of one of the most famous sermon writers of the Enlightenment period, Jonathan Edwards, it is a place that has retained its small town feel, even though it is now the fastest growing town in Connecticut. This is partly due to the well maintained historical buildings and the legends that are still talked about as lore.

A man has pleaded guilty to robbing a gas station on North Road in East Windsor with a hatchet that he used to strike the counter between him and the clerk three times, court records show. ROBBERY DEAL. DEFENDANT: Joseph P. Carmen, 43, who has listed his address as an...

UConn's national championship hopes ended on the women's side with Saturday's 73-61 loss to Ohio State. After the game, coach Geno Auriemma was frank about the Huskies' Sweet 16 performance. Telling reporters, "Ohio State just outplayed us, and took us out of a bunch of stuff that we wanted to do." ...

If we’re lucky in the Opinion section, we work through our beliefs completely and support them with great arguments. But sometimes, we don’t need a deeper reason to hold our convictions. Rapid Fire is for those tweet-length takes that can be explained in just a sentence or two — no more justification needed.

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (WTNH) — A Hartford man was arrested on Friday for driving under the influence and attacking a woman in South Windsor, police said. South Windsor police responded to reports of an erratic driver in the area of Ellington Road on Rt. 30 and Sullivan Avenue at Rt. 194 around 9:30 p.m. Police […]

The University of Connecticut’s Human Rights Institute has been renamed the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute in honor of Gary Gladstein, who graduated from UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1966. An event will take place on Wednesday, March 29 in the Student Union Ballroom to celebrate the renaming.

Two men are facing first-degree assault charges in a knife fight between them that happened in the early hours of Jan. 1 after they had spent New Year’s Eve drinking with a mutual friend in her apartment in a low-income apartment building on Connecticut Boulevard in East Hartford. KNIFE...

The University of Connecticut Rainbow Center will be hosting a biannual event called “Legally and Medically Trans” today from 6-8 p.m. in the center’s main lounge, according to a UConn Daily Digest post. At the event, “legal and medical professionals will be in attendance to provide information on how to navigate gender-affirming and transition-related services,” per the post. Previous iterations of the event have also discussed the process of changing a student’s name on official university documentation as well as details about hormone replacement therapy. Interested students can visit the UConn Daily Digest or events calendar for more details.

STORRS, Conn. (WTNH) — University of Connecticut students are still reeling in excitement over the men’s basketball team’s win over the Gonzaga Bulldogs on Saturday. The UConn Huskies are now moving on to compete in the Final Four NCAA Tournament against the Miami Hurricanes on Saturday, April 1st in Houston, Texas. All eyes are now […]

LAS VEGAS — When Hassan Diarra transferred to the Huskies prior to the season, he knew a familiar face would be waiting on him: his older brother Mamadou. Fast forward 10 months and the brothers have experienced a magical season with the Huskies and each other. The team has reached the Final Four following its 82-54 win over third-seeded Gonzaga at T-Mobile Arena Saturday.

With 40 minutes to Houston on the clock, there was one aspect of Nahiem Alleyne’s pregame routine that had to stay consistent. “Just stay confident. I know we haven’t been here before, but we’re here for a reason. All the hard work in nine months is paying off right now. I feel like all of us just exude confidence,” said Alleyne.

LAS VEGAS — The joyful feeling in the fourth-seeded UConn men’s basketball team’s locker room following its 82-54 win over No. 3 seed Gonzaga in the West Regional final Saturday at T-Mobile Arena was palpable. But perhaps no players felt that joy more than Connecticut natives Donovan...