SEYMOUR – A car that spun out on Route 8 northbound Wednesday morning is causing traffic delays. A Ford Taurus lost control and struck a concrete barrier on the side of the highway near Exit 22. At 8 a.m., traffic…

WATERBURY – A morning shooting Tuesday outside of Waterbury Superior Court left a man with a gunshot wound to the leg, which authorities suspect is tied to escalating violence between groups in the city. Multiple pops of gunfire were heard…

BURLINGTON – State police arrested a Burlington man on drug and weapons charges following a seven-month undercover investigation by state and Bristol police.   Gregory J. Hebert, 45, of 51 Main St., was arrested on Dec. 27 and will be arraigned…

WOODBURY – First Selectman William J. Butterly said he’s fed up with the state Department of Transportation, which has taken years to deliver on requested safety measures but recently told the Public Works director to remove flags near crosswalk meant…

NAUGATUCK – Registered sex offenders will no longer be allowed on most borough-owned property. The Board of Mayor and Burgesses unanimously passed an ordinance Tuesday that bans any person convicted of a sexual offense from frequenting borough-owned parks, schools, playgrounds,…

MIDDLEBURY – U.S. Attorney John H. Durham announced the arrest of a Waterbury man on federal charges stemming from two armed robberies in Middlebury last month. Zachary Provost, 32, allegedly robbed the Mobil gas station, 750 Straits Turnpike and the…

HARTFORD – Connecticut taxpayers who pay estimated income taxes every quarter rushed to meet a year-end deadline to take full advantage of a deduction for state and local taxes for the last time. The federal tax overhaul that President Donald…

WINSTED – Independent thinking is the goal in education today, and that mission is clearly evident in the mathematics classes offered at Northwestern Regional School No. 7. “We take a lot of pride in our program,” said George Mitesser, chairman…

Thursday’s forecast winter storm will serve as the appetizer for another blast of Arctic cold and potentially damaging winds on Friday and Saturday. John J. Bagioni, a meteorologist with Fax-Alert Weather Service in Burlington, said the bitterly cold temperatures and…

TORRINGTON – Little Iyla Pietrafesa couldn’t come soon enough, but her entrance was still a tad late for the first day of 2018. There were no babies born on New Year’s Day at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, but the healthy little…

BEACON FALLS Region 16 Superintendent of Schools Michael Yamin is looking to hire a science teacher for the elementary schools next year, a move that may become more common as districts strive to meet the new Next Generation Science Standards….

The icy road conditions over the long holiday weekend led to several accidents on I-84. In Southbury, a Middlebury man veered off the left shoulder of Interstate 84 east in his GMC Acadia amid icy conditions Saturday, and struck a rock…

WINSTED – The Board of Selectmen is gearing up for another budget season. The board approved a schedule on Tuesday night for preparing the spending plan for the 2018-19 fiscal year, which begins on July 1. By March 15, the…

WATERBURY – The severe cold weather that had hovered over the region for most of the holiday break impacted temperatures in some of the city’s public school buildings when classes resumed across the city for the first school day of…

SOUTHBURY – Calvary Chapel opened a storefront in Bennett Square on Main Street South 20 years ago to host services for its 30 members. Since then, the church has grown to 350 members, leases seven storefronts and has two services…

WATERBURY – The Board of Parks Commissioners on Tuesday turned down two competing proposals to rename the North End Recreation Center for upstanding African American men whose lives were cut short. The seven-member board unanimously voted to instead ask both…

TORRINGTON – A Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered a city man with an extensive history of drug convictions held on $150,000 bond. In doing so, Judge Paul Matasavage rejected public defender James Longwell’s bid to have Damon Spencer, 41,…

WATERBURY – For more than a century, Joseph P. Nolan’s family has used Old Saint Joseph Cemetery for its burial grounds, including for several generations of veterans. That’s one of the reasons it’s so distressing, he said, to see the ragged…

KENT – Tim Groski has delivered much more than packages during his years in Kent. The United Parcel Service driver retired Friday after 40 years of service, 33 of them in Kent. The familiar brown truck, which wends its way along…

STATE – Connecticut State Police responded to nearly 500 accidents, two of which were fatal, during the four-day New Year’s holiday. Police on Tuesday announced that they responded to 494 accidents during the enforcement period that started at 12:01 a.m….