The Latest Breaking News from Connecticut

Ernesto Strengthens, Causes Swells Along U.S. East Coast

Ernesto strengthens into a hurricane, causing dangerous surf along U.S. East Coast. Unrelated storm leads to flooding in Connecticut.

Top News · Aug 19, 2024

Ernesto gains strength over open Atlantic. Unrelated downpours in Connecticut lead to rescues

Ernesto has regained hurricane status and picked up strength as it heads farther out into the Atlantic Ocean

The Independent UK · Aug 19, 2024

Flash Floods Cause Evacuations And Road Closures In Northeast

Flash floods in Connecticut lead to evacuations, water rescues, and road closures due to heavy rainfall, affecting multiple counties and causing significan...

Top News · Aug 19, 2024

Her sister was murdered nearly 50 years ago. Now she’s turning to the ‘Torso killer’ for answers

In 1975, Patricia Newsom’s slain body was found in a Connecticut drainage ditch, but she wasn’t identified until 2023. What happened to the 18-year-old remains a mystery, but her sister tells Andrea Cavallier she believes a convicted serial killer known as the ‘Torso Killer’ could have the answer. So she…

The Independent UK · Aug 11, 2024

‘RINO Ron,’ Santa Claus highlight four states’ primaries Tuesday - Roll Call

Primaries will pick House and Senate nominees Tuesday in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut.

Roll Call · Aug 9, 2024

Son Charged With Gruesome Murder Of Father In Ridgefield

31-year-old man charged with murdering his father in Ridgefield, Connecticut, shocking the community.

Top News · Aug 8, 2024

Scooby Dooby Doo, Whose Are You?

In Roger v. Keller, decided earlier this month by Waterbury, Connecticut trial court judge Robert D'Andrea, plaintiffs had a pit bull named Scooby; they kept him with defendants (who were apparently, to oversimplify, plaintiffs' family members) for three years, despite defendants' insistence that plaintiffs take them back. Eventually, defendants gave…

Reason · Aug 8, 2024

Sleepy Connecticut town sees its first murder in two decades when son allegedly killed his 83-year-old dad

The case is a ‘a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions,’ the accused murderer’s lawyer said

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2024

How do you read a poem? Embrace the sound, the strangeness and the ambiguity

A word is dead When it is said, Some say, I say it just Begins to live That day. – Emily Dickinson If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting…

The Conversation · Aug 6, 2024

Connecticut man bitten by rare rattlesnake he tried to help ends up in coma

A Connecticut man is in the hospital after being bitten by a timber rattlesnake he was trying to help

The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2024