WATERTOWN Waterbury elementary students are working with students from a Watertown private high school to create a collaborative art project. Just under 100 kindergarten through fifth-graders each made a leaf. The Taft School students will assemble them into a tree…

NAUGATUCK – Beacon Hose Co. No. 1 applauded one of its own after she saved a woman’s life this week. Beacon Falls Emergency Medical responder was in the right place at the right time when the car in front of…

MORRIS – Voters are scheduled to consider a proposed town budget of $9,409,802 for 2017-18 at a town meeting on Jan. 31. The Board of Selectmen set the date during a special meeting on Friday. Selectman Vincent Aiello, however, said…

TORRINGTON – It used to be that when a call came in for a heroin overdose, there was only so much city firefighters could do to stop the effects until EMTs arrived on scene with the life-saving drug naloxone, better…

KENT – Sightseers and out-of-town visitors are still flocking to see Kent’s ice jam – a mile-long block of ice on the Housatonic River that continued to show no signs of movement on Friday. Frank and Miok Lipke traveled to…

WATERBURY – The state Medical Examining Board has reprimanded a Waterbury doctor after an infant died in 2014. According to the consent order, John Kaczmarek provided care to a patient during her labor and delivery at Waterbury Hospital Aug. 10,…

TORRINGTON – A frail but sane Daniel Gervais is now headed toward trial at Torrington Superior Court. He is charged with brutally murdering his 79-year-old wife of 11 years, Phyllis Gervais. The retired 70-year-old tree service company owner waived his…

CORNWALL – The Board of Selectmen projects a gloomy outlook as it begins work on its budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year. First Selectman Gordon M. Ridgway said next fiscal year will be a costly one for the town. Cornwall’s…

TORRINGTON- Bradley Grey stretched his long arms behind his back to be handcuffed by marshals before being led into a basement lockup Friday at Superior Court to begin a 60-day sentence for sexually assaulting a juvenile in Winsted in 2016….

WATERTOWN – Police arrested a Middlebury man in connection to the armed robbery of the Davis Street 7-11 earlier this week. Thomas Gaffney, 34, of 2006 Straits Turnpike, was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree robbery with a deadly weapon,…

WATERBURY – In a decision that could indicate the outcome of multiple criminal cases, a jury in Waterbury Superior Court on Friday found an accused heroin dealer arrested in a major police operation not guilty of slinging the deadly narcotic…

SOUTHINGTON — Democratic and independent candidates for governor offered highway tolls, higher fuel taxes and even a mileage tax as solutions to the state’s transportation funding challenges. The issues of transportation and how to save the Special Transportation Fund from insolvency…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer met Friday afternoon in an eleventh-hour effort to avert a government shutdown, with a bitterly divided Washington locked in partisan stare-down over politically fraught legislation to protect about…

POLICE BLOTTER TORRINGTON Torrington police recently filed the following charges: ZACKARY M. BOSWELL-JACOBS, 31, 24 South St., Collinsville, failing to register as a sex offender, Jan. 4. KRISTOPHER D. GIRARD, 19, 162 Central Ave., first floor, violation of a protective…

POLICE BLOTTER WATERBURY Waterbury police recently filed the following charges: JOSHUA DEJESUS, 28, of 289 Shaker Road, Enfield, first-degree violations of conditions of release. ISAAC NELSON, 34, of 32 Young St., three counts violation of probation or conditional discharge. YAVIER…

POLICE BLOTTER WINSTED SEBASTIAN DUFFY, 20, 191 Oak St., possession of marijuana with intent to sell, possession of less than four ounces of marijuana, Jan. 18. Released on $500 bond pending appearance in Torrington Superior Court Jan. 29. Related

SUPERIOR COURT Court dispositions are released monthly and published daily. Criminal history record information may change daily due to erasures, corrections, pardons and other modifications. These dispositions are accurate as of the time they were obtained. Oct. 27 MEGAN N….

WATERBURY – Police are investigating an armed robbery of a clothing store earlier this month. Two suspects, who police say showed guns during the hold up, robbed Mike T’s Urban Wear on Orange Street on Jan. 10. The men were…

TORRINGTON – A city man with a felony robbery conviction was ordered held on $50,000 bond Thursday in Superior Court. Ryan Marston, 25, of 89 Pearl St., is charged with violating his probation by failing to attend a drug-treatment program…

TORRINGTON – Police in Shelton arrested a 45-year-old Torrington man on charges of fourth-degree sexual assault and second-degree harassment after a 17-year-old girl reported that he touched her while she slept in his car. Christopher Galvin was released on $5,000…