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• Several vehicles and outdoor furnace destroyed in fire in Woodstock

  21-12-2024 11:19 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Several vehicles and an outdoor furnace were destroyed in a fire in Woodstock on Friday night. Firefighters from Muddy Brook Fire Department responded to Paine District Road around 9 p.m. for a report of a detached garage on fire with exposure. When fire crews arrived, they said they found a 20′ by 20′ building with fire throughout. According to fire...
  
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• New info sought 12 years after death of man in Watertown

  21-12-2024 14:54 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  New information is being sought 12 years after the death of a man in Watertown. Police said Kyle Seidel, then 34 years old, was found in the parking lot of the Halftime Lounge and Bowling Alley on December 21, 2012, with a single gunshot wound. He was transported to the hospital where he later died. In the 12 years since...
  
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• New info sought 12 years after death of man in Waterford

  21-12-2024 14:54 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  New information is being sought 12 years after the death of a man in Waterford. Police said Kyle Seidel, then 34 years old, was found in the parking lot of the Halftime Lounge and Bowling Alley on December 21, 2012, with a single gunshot wound. He was transported to the hospital where he later died. In the 12 years since...
  
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• Man wanted in connection to Norwalk home invasion found in New York and arrested

  21-12-2024 14:06 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  A man who was wanted in connection to a home invasion in Norwalk earlier this year has been found in New York and was arrested this week. Police said 31-year-old Christian Chavez-Sosa broke into the victim’s home on October 30 and destroyed items before later coming back and terrorizing the victim again. According to investigators, there was already an existing...
  
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• Best and worst times to hit the road this holiday season

  21-12-2024 11:08 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  With Christmas and the start of Chanukah less than a week away, it’s going to be busy on the roads with people driving to their holiday destinations. With that, comes knowing when to get behind the wheel. The message from AAA is simple: get an early start. Over the next several days, experts say those midday, late afternoon, and evening travel times...
  
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• Connecticut travelers hit the roads and the shopping centers

  20-12-2024 22:10 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Whether you’re getting last minute shopping done or hitting the roads for the holidays, it was a busy Friday night. Nearly a million people in our state will be hitting the road this holiday season to see family and friends, but before they can do that, they’re getting some last-minute holiday shopping done. It’s hard to have the season of...
  
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• CT woman sentenced to prison for burglaries targeting Asian families' homes

  20-12-2024 21:58 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  A Stamford woman has been sentenced to prison for her role in at least 10 racially-targeted burglaries in several states, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Federal prosecutors in Rhode Island said Basneyareth Rebollar-Martinez, 28, conspired to steal from Asian homes between July of 2022 and January of 2023. She was sentenced to two years in federal prison, followed by...
  
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• Report alleges Coast Guard leaders kept sexual assault investigation secret

  20-12-2024 21:11 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Former top Coast Guard officials hid a years-long investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the service’s academy from both Congress and the public after leaders debated the fallout from a potential disclosure, according to a U.S. Senate committee report released Friday. Coast Guard officials also took steps to remove references to the investigation, named Operation Fouled Anchor, from records submitted to Congress, according...
  
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• CVS Health to layoff dozens of remote employees

  20-12-2024 21:01 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  CVS Health is laying off nearly 165 employees as a part of a mass layoff at its facility in Hartford, Connecticut. The facility, located on Farmington Avenue, announced that they plan to layoff 164 employees in February 2025. The company said all of the impacted employees are either out stationed, remote or work-at-home employees. None of the employees being impacted...
  
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• CT VIP program marks 5 years of violence intervention among young people

  20-12-2024 20:31 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  “I’m no different, I mean, if I can make it, anybody can make it,” DeSean Graham said. “There’s change in me. There’s change in anybody else.” Standing outside the CT Violence Intervention and Prevention headquarters on Ashmun Street in New Haven, Graham is a lifetime away from Jan. 6, 2021. When the country was watching the U.S. Capitol, Graham, then...
  
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• Woman seriously injured after hit-and-run in Hamden

  20-12-2024 19:05 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  A woman has sustained serious injuries after being hit by a car in Hamden Friday night. The police department said it happened on School Street just before 6 p.m. Officers said a woman was struck by a vehicle, which then fled the scene. The woman was taken to the hospital and is in serious, but stable condition, according to police....
  
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• Warming centers to open across the state amid cold temperatures

  20-12-2024 18:04 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Warming centers are opening their doors across the state amid cold temperatures Friday night. Low temps around 20 degrees are expected, with wind chills in the teens. Temperatures will remain low overnight and through Saturday morning. By the afternoon, temperatures will rise to around 40 degrees. There is possibility of snow Saturday night. A coating to an inch of snow...
  
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• Whale of a celebration planned to commemorate 50 years of Hartford hockey

  20-12-2024 17:45 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  In January of 2025, Hartford hockey will hit the 50-year milestone. We spoke with those who brought the team to Hartford all those years ago. Hockey fans in Connecticut are familiar with the Hartford Wolf Pack. Fifty years ago, it was the Hartford Whalers. Celebrations are now underway to celebrate this special milestone. When you think of the whalers, you...
  
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• Have a passion for poetry? North Haven seeks next poet laureate

  20-12-2024 17:30 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  The Town of North Haven is searching for a person with a passion for poetry to become the town’s next poet laureate. Gabriella Brand has been the poet laureate at the North Haven Memorial Library for the past three years.  “A poet laureate is a person who in a way represents their town but also is there as a missionary,...
  
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• Cub Scout building ransacked in Coventry causing thousands in damages

  20-12-2024 17:30 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Cub Scout Pack 65 in Coventry is looking to recover after their storage building was broken into, leaving the scouts surprised and upset. “They wouldn’t expected someone to come in and steal from them. You know, they’re young kids,” troop leader Brad Manning said. “We always try and teach them a scout is trustworthy and you know this kind of...
  
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• Tuition won't go up at CT state colleges and universities next year

  20-12-2024 17:11 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Tuition will not go up for Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) next year because of a recently-approved tuition freeze. The Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education voted to freeze tuition for all four state universities, Connecticut State Community College and Charter Oak State College during the 2025-26 academic year. “This tuition freeze will only make it easier for...
  
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• Man arrested for sexually assaulting massage parlor worker in West Haven: PD

  20-12-2024 16:17 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  A man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a massage parlor worker during an armed robbery in West Haven earlier this year. West Haven police said they responded to a massage parlor in town on Aug. 18 after an armed robbery was reported. Responding officers learned that a worker was alone when the doorbell rang. She went to the...
  
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• Waterbury police identify suspect in June homicide

  20-12-2024 15:59 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Police are looking for the suspect they say shot and killed a man in Waterbury in June. Officers responded to the shooting on Washington Street around 12:15 a.m. on June 4. They found 30-year-old Robert Baez, of Waterbury, suffering from a gunshot wound. Baez later died at the hospital. On Friday, police identified 25-year-old Angel Rodriguez as a suspect in...
  
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• US Navy sailors return back home for holidays

  20-12-2024 15:58 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Emotions were high on Friday for a big welcome home. “So excited that I might actually fall to the ground,” Lilly Jaremback, of East Lyme, said. “I’ve been waiting for this day to come, 189 days ago,” Jessica McCosker, of New London, said. After being on deployment for six months, U.S. Navy sailors on the USS Virginia submarine made it...
  
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• Dozens of cars broken into with windows smashed in Trumbull and Milford

  20-12-2024 15:30 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Trumbull and Milford police are investigating after receiving reports of more than 45 car break-ins Thursday night. Authorities said all of the cars had their windows smashed. There were about 20 car break-ins in Trumbull and more than 25 break-ins in Milford, respectively. Police said there were similar break-ins reported in other towns, too. Authorities are reminding people to remove...
  
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• Officials say you should give yourself extra time ahead of holiday travel

  20-12-2024 15:20 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  If you have travel plans over the next few days, you’ll want to hear this.  Nearly one million people in Connecticut are hitting the road to travel for the holidays, and tens of thousands of people will be flying out of the state’s two major airports. Tweed New Haven Airport was buzzing to start the day Friday, but settled out...
  
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• Man poses as contractor, takes money from homeowners in New Fairfield: police

  20-12-2024 15:10 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  A man has been arrested for allegedly posing as a contractor and taking money for work he never completed in New Fairfield, police said. State police said they arrested a New York man who posed as a general contractor and collected $265,000 from homeowners who hired him to complete renovations. He was arrested for first-degree larceny in New York on...
  
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• Haddam-Killingworth students raise over $10k for nonprofit through telethon

  20-12-2024 14:22 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Students at Haddam-Killingworth High School raised more than $10,000 at their annual holiday telethon. The 36th annual HKTV Holiday Show took place Friday morning from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., and the three-hour telethon was fully student-run. “Yesterday, we had a run sheet day, so we basically find all of the content that we’ve created — everyone’s worked so hard...
  
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• Firefighters free worker buried in trench collapse in Stamford

  20-12-2024 14:18 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Firefighters rescued a worker who was trapped thigh-high in a trench and suffering from hypothermia in Stamford on Friday morning. Firefighters responded to a home on Hampton Lane around 8:50 a.m. after a worker became trapped in a collapsed trench, according to the fire department. When they arrived, they found a man who was buried up to his thighs at the...
  
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• Police charge man with murder of woman shot on Meriden green in July

  20-12-2024 12:52 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Meriden police have arrested a suspect in the murder of a 28-year-old woman on the town green in July. Trevor Smith, 42, was arrested on Friday and charged with the murder of Beth Ndwiga, according to Meriden police. They said they arrested him on Friday with assistance from the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force and the West Haven Police Department...
  
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• Bridgeport police arrest suspect in shooting that killed 28-year-old woman

  20-12-2024 10:43 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Bridgeport police have arrested a suspect in a shooting in August that killed a 28-year-old woman and injured a 30-year-old man. Police said they have a warrant charging 34-year-old Terence Jermaine Gallimore with the murder of 28-year-old Brandaja Azjree Florence Winston. The shooting happened on Stratford Avenue early on the morning of Aug. 17.  Officers responded after ShotSpotter went off...
  
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• Teen wanted on assault charged in connection to shooting at University of Bridgeport in custody

  20-12-2024 10:03 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  A teen who was wanted in connection with a shooting in a dining hall at the University of Bridgeport in October is in custody. Police said an 18-year-old Queens, New York man turned himself in to police on Friday and he was served with a warrant charging him assault in the first degree with a firearm.  He will be arraigned...
  
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• Person dies after fire at home in Montville

  20-12-2024 07:31 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  A person has died after a fire destroyed a home in Montville on Friday morning. Crews responded to a home on Kitemaug Road around 3:30 a.m. and spent hours battling the fire. Norwich Firefighters Local 892 posted on Facebook that crews from an engine reported a partial collapse. Photos from the scene later in the morning showed that the whole...
  
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• Continued snow showers could cause slippery roads overnight

  20-12-2024 06:58 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  After much of the state got a coating of snow on Friday, dropping temperatures and continued snowfall overnight could make way for slick roads. With temperatures dropping into the 20s overnight, slippery road conditions are possible. Parts of eastern Connecticut could see as much as three inches by the time it’s all over. So far, 4 inches of snow has...
  
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• Man wanted in connection to assault at New Haven Superior Court

  19-12-2024 23:00 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  State police are looking for a man that’s wanted in connection to an assault at New Haven Superior Court on Thursday. Troopers said the assault happened on Church Street just after 12:15 p.m. The man was caught on surveillance footage before fleeing the scene. Details about what happened weren’t immediately available. Anyone who recognizes the man is asked to call...
  
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