A convicted rapist was charged with murder and attempted sexual assault Friday in the killing of a visiting nurse at a Connecticut halfway house for sex offenders in October—a crime that spurred calls for better safety measures for home health care workers. Authorities added the charges against Michael Reese, 39, as he appeared in state […]
STONINGTON, Conn.—For the first time, Connecticut has allowed people to cast ballots early, in person, ahead of an election, years after almost every other state in the country offered voters that option. Saturday marks the final day of early voting before Tuesday’s presidential primary and turnout so far has been light. After the first three […]
A woman was convicted Friday of conspiring to murder Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five who vanished from a wealthy Connecticut enclave in 2019 and was never found. Michelle Troconis, 49, was convicted by the Stamford jury following a lengthy trial in which prosecutors laid out a case that she helped her then-boyfriend, Dolus’s husband, […]
Connecticut plans to eliminate medical debt for all eligible residents this year, making it the first state to offer such a relief program, Gov. Ned Lamont said in an interview on Friday. Mr. Lamont unveiled the plan during an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” which will include using $6.5 million in funds from the […]
A New York City dancer has died after eating mislabeled cookies containing peanuts, according to the family’s lawyers, who revealed the product was sold at a popular regional supermarket chain. In a statement on Jan. 24, the legal representatives of Órla Baxendale, 25, said their client went into anaphylactic shock and died on Jan. 11 […]
A judge on Friday dismissed a juror in the trial of a Connecticut woman accused of helping her boyfriend cover up the murder of his estranged wife, after the panelist likened the case to the novel and movie “Gone Girl.” Judge Kevin Randolph received an unsigned note from a juror in the trial of Michelle […]
Connecticut’s secretary of state announced the names of Republican and Democratic presidential candidates who will appear on the state’s primary election in April, and former President Donald Trump’s name was on the list. For Democrats, President Joe Biden as well as challengers Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), Cenk Uygur, and Marianne Williamson will appear on the […]
A nanny who cares for five children whose mother went missing in Connecticut in 2019 recalled in court on Wednesday the frantic day Jennifer Dulos vanished, kicking off a search that eventually turned into a murder investigation. The nanny, Lauren Almeida, testified in the trial of Michelle Troconis, who was the girlfriend of Dulos’ estranged […]
Michelle Troconis insists she did not know her boyfriend, Fotis Dulos, was doing anything nefarious as she watched him toss garbage bags into random bins, or as she helped him write up a timeline of their whereabouts on the day his estranged wife disappeared. Those actions, authorities allege, were taken to cover up the killing […]
SOMERS, Conn.—A fire that raced through a two-family home in northern Connecticut on Tuesday night killed four children and several animals as firefighters struggled with rescue efforts because of clutter, authorities said. The four children who died in the Somers blaze were ages 5, 6, 8, and 12 and lived in one side of the […]
Several different state capitol buildings across the United States on Wednesday received bomb threats, prompting evacuations and lockdowns. At least five state capitol buildings were targeted in the wave of bomb scares on Wednesday: Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Montana, Connecticut, Michigan, and Maine. Other state capitol buildings may also have been targeted. Kentucky State Police asked […]
STONINGTON, Conn.—A man who was fatally shot by police in Connecticut last week had a pistol and fired at a police dog as he attempted to flee from state troopers and other officers serving a warrant for a 2022 shooting, according to a preliminary report released Wednesday by the state’s Office of Inspector General. Vaughn […]
A man wanted on felony charges and a police dog were killed in a shooting involving Connecticut State Police troopers on Thursday evening, authorities said. State police said troopers went to the Pawcatuck section of Stonington, near the Rhode Island state line, at about 7:30 p.m. to serve the warrant and a shooting occurred. No […]
GROTON, Conn.—A man wanted in the killing of a television news anchor’s mother in Vermont in February was captured at a Connecticut hotel Wednesday, the U.S. Marshals Service said. Shawn Conlon, 44, was arrested in Groton by marshals, local police, and Rhode Island State Police. Authorities said Mr. Conlon was arraigned in a Connecticut court […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has been urged to take up a case challenging the elimination of religious exemptions to school vaccine mandates in Connecticut. The group We The Patriots USA filed a petition on Dec. 11, asking the nation’s top court to review rulings by federal district court and appeals court judges against their challenge. […]
A judge in Bridgeport, Conn., overturned the result of a Democratic primary election on Nov. 1. The ruling came after mounting evidence of fraudulently cast ballots in a Sept. 12 mayoral race. In his fourth visit to Israel since the recent terrorist attacks by Hamas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel on Nov. 3 […]
A primary election in Connecticut has been overturned by a judge, who said the evidence presented was “shocking.” The Sept. 12 Democrat primary for the race to become Bridgeport’s mayor included thousands of absentee ballots. John Gomes, one of the candidates, presented evidence indicating some of the ballots were cast fraudulently. State law enables absentee […]
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) leveled fierce criticism at Sarah French Russell, a nominee to be United States district judge for the District of Connecticut, over a controversial letter Ms. Russell allegedly signed in 2020 after the COVID-19 outbreak, which called for the release of prisoners, a moratorium […]
WESTPORT, Conn.—The body of one of two boaters who went missing in the Long Island Sound off Connecticut has been recovered, authorities said. The remains of Juan Gabriel Valle Pineda were recovered at 4:30 p.m. Monday by Bridgeport Fire Department staffers, Westport Police Lt. Eric Woods said. Mr. Pineda, 38, of Spring Valley, New York, […]
WINDSOR, Conn.—A Connecticut high school student died after losing consciousness at football practice, school officials said. Windsor High School student Elijah-Jay Mariano Rivera lost consciousness during practice Tuesday and was given CPR by police and emergency medical technicians, district superintendent Terrence Hill said in a letter to families. Mr. Hill said the teen was not […]
