Bitter cold that stings your face, tingles your nose and possibly sets weather records will greet us today and into Saturday, with little comfort or reward for persevering through Thursday’s snowstorm. Yes, hearty residents sighed, this is New England; it…

TORRINGTON – The Community Soup Kitchen on Maiden Lane ordinarily closes after lunch. City residents with nowhere else to go until the Operation Overflow church basement shelter opens at 8:45 p.m. ordinarily would have had the option of spending a…

WATERBURY – A prolonged stretch of extreme cold and Thursday’s storm has pushed the St. Vincent DePaul Mission shelter on Benedict Street to its limit. About 125 men, women and children sheltered at the 7,628-square-foot building at the height of…

KENT – A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport on Wednesday claims Kent School failed to adequately supervise and protect a 15-year-old freshman from severe injuries suffered when he crashed during a school-sponsored bicycle ride in 2016. Danilo…

CANAAN – At the Troop B state police barracks on Route 7, just south of the Massachusetts state line, 19-year-old Mya Marshall of Amenia, N.Y., turned herself in Wednesday after learning a warrant had been issued for her arrest for…

BEACON FALLS – On the second go-around, voters approved three of four capital projects at a meeting Wednesday. Voters, largely from the Chatfield Farms neighborhood, rejected the same package of expenditures in September. Several voters at the time said they…

MIDDLEBURY – Working Foreman Anthony Polzella watched the latest news of Thursday’s snowstorm on the wall-mounted TV in the Middlebury Public Works office at 1 Service Road Thursday afternoon while waiting for his drivers to return from the firehouse. The…

TORRINGTON – Two Massachusetts men were charged with possession of heroin in the city on Saturday. Plainclothes officers noticed the pair driving fast on East Main Street before turning into the Walmart parking lot on Torringford Street. The officers approached…

WATERBURY – A Hartford man who police suspect beat a woman bloody after awakening her in her bed while her daughter slept nearby was released by a judge without bond after police completed an investigation into the incident. Cinque Jenkins,…

WOODBURY – Woodlake Condominium Complex will soon have new solar panels to power its sewage treatment plant. The Inland Wetlands Agency recently approved an application by Commercial Solar Works to install 444 photovoltaic solar panels in a nearby field that…

WATERBURY – A multifamily home that caught fire last week had not been inspected by the fire marshal – nor should it have been, based on a city policy of only inspecting residences with three or more families. Seven adults…

BARKHAMSTED – There is a power outage on Wright Road at Triangle Road in Canton and there are 220 homes out between Canton and Barkhamsted, according to Barkhamsted First Selectman Donald S. Stein. In Barkhamsted, approximately 145 homes on Ratlum,…

WATERBURY – A city man was charged with a drunken attack on his elderly roommate, leaving the roommate with a stab wound to his upper arm.. Khurshed Amrietdienov, 59, was charged with first-degree assault in connection to the New Year’s…

USPS driver Sandra Kurtz has been delivering mail for 30 years. "There’s been worse," she said, "but this is a good one." She said she was unable to complete parts of her route today because of the road conditions. Even New Haven Road is bad, she said.

WATERBURY – A natural gas leak kept a small portion of East Main Street closed overnight, but otherwise, city officials report few problems as a growing storm took hold of the city Thursday morning. The city has a parking ban in…

LITCHFIELD COUNTY — “Stay off the roads,” State Trooper Richard Binkowski at Troop B said early Thursday afternoon as callers reported being stuck in blizzard conditions throughout the Northwest Corner. “There are only so many plow trucks.” High winds whipped…

NAUGATUCK — An armed robber stole about $130 in cash and 50 packs of cigarettes from Cumberland Farms on Rubber Avenue early Wednesday morning, police said. The heavyset Caucasian man displayed a weapon around 3:18 a.m., then stuffed the stolen…

WATERBURY – Central and parts of Western Connecticut can expect an average of 6 to 10 inches of snowfall today, with heavy winds and freezing temperatures causing problems into Friday. “The main message is get ready for a wild 12-hour…

Pick a direction, and watch the snow from the Republican-American’s tower cams. Just click this “View From the Top” link. VIEW FROM THE TOP Related

WATERTOWN – The Watertown Food Bank scheduled for today has been rescheduled due to inclement weather. It will open Friday instead, following the Thursday appointment schedule. Anyone with questions or concerns can call the info-line at 860-945-5272. Related