Ansonia News Archives

There's no recession in the charitable donations from the Travelers Championship this year.

Ansonia is playing Derby Friday night for the first time since 2003, and we'll be covering the heck out of it.

Police said Christopher J. Mutchler, 18, has no link to others arrested in connection with Jasper Howard's death.

Route 334 was closed in both directions in Ansonia Thursday afternoon after holes were found in the surface of the Maple Street Bridge, the mayor's office said.

The eloquent but misguided Michelle M. Gonzalez is very mistaken in her statement that the citizens of Connecticut owe a debt to Jasper Howard's family ["Howard Family's Loss Is Our Failure," Your View, Oct.

Mark Sanchez is hot-doggin' it again. This time, the New York Jets' rookie quarterback isn't sneaking a snack on the sideline, though.

Boston Celtics forward Glen "Big Baby" Davis had surgery Tuesday on his right thumb, which he broke while fighting with a friend, a person familiar with the injury told The Associated Press.

A 21-year-old Bloomfield man has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of UConn cornerback Jasper Howard, police said.

For nearly a century, it's tones tolled milestones first on the west side and later the east side of the city.

Baseball analyst Steve Phillips was fired by ESPN on Sunday night, less than a week after he admitted having an affair with a production assistant at the cable network.

Firefighters at Webster Hose, Hook & Ladder Co. proudly washed, polished and buffed their new pumper truck, showing it off to the public during an open house Oct 17.

West Virginia coach Bill Stewart said quarterback Jarrett Brown is day-to-day after taking a helmet-to-helmet hit Saturday against Marshall in Morgantown.

A West Hartford man accused of torching his 3,200-square-foot home in February could go to trial as soon as January.

About 300 people poured out of the University of Connecticut's Student Union when a fire alarm sounded early Sunday, and campus police are betting that many of them had cellphones with cameras.

Shots were fired on Olson Drive Thursday afternoon, but it doesn't appear that anyone was shot, according to police.

A 20-year-old Ansonia man went to the hospital with a bullet wound in his buttocks Monday after he was shot on Hill Street, police said.

State police have identified the kidnapping and shooting suspect who shot and killed himself Sunday in Essex as Robert Finkeldey, 24, of Old Saybrook .

A 21-year-old Hartford man was arrested at the scene of fight that led to the death of University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard, but police insist that the man is not a suspect in the stabbing.

A woman died after a fire Sunday at a condominium complex on Ellington Road, officials said.

Jasper Howard, a 5-foot-9, 174-pound starting cornerback on the UConn football team, died today after an on-campus stabbing.

Fans of pro football couldn't help but notice that the giants of the gridiron wore hot pink this past Sunday - pink gloves, pink sweatbands, pink towels and even pink cleats.

A 17-year-old girl was charged with murder today in the death of her grandmother, Italia Ligouri, last month, police said.

Authorities say a Plainfield man faces up to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to stabbing his former girlfriend to death in 2007.

With Brook Hart completing 28 of 40 passes for 390 yards and three touchdowns in his first start of the season, the Bulldogs found little resistance in rolling to a 38-7 win, their first Ivy League victory this season.

The Ansonia volleyball team heads into the final two weeks of the regular season looking to make a final push for the post season.

Let others concern themselves with scaring the heck out of you and your family this month.

The court case for Rodney Lee Brown, the father of the 3-month-old baby who died in Ansonia last month, was continued for another three weeks Tuesday.

Charles McManus, Jr. owns Seven Star Martial Arts Academy, a new karate studio at 210 Main St.

A Superior Court judge on Thursday found that there is sufficient evidence to believe that Jose Lacouture stabbed his wife to death Aug.

A 30-year-old man was charged Friday with torching the awning at the Ansonia Republican headquarters on West Street.

What a difference a week makes for the Ansonia Chargers! They shook off a disappointing loss to Holy Cross and rebounded with a big 49-28 win over Wilby in a game witnessed by 200 hearty fans on a drizzly Friday night.

More than a week after an arson at Republican Headquarters on Main Street, a 30-year old Ansonia man was arrested Friday for setting the blaze, but police and fire officials emphasized the arson was not politically motivated.

An Ansonia man will serve 14 years of a 25-year prison sentence, followed by 20 years of probation for sexually assaulting three Derby children in 2007 under a plea deal accepted Friday in Milford Superior Court.

Downtown Ansonia may get a taste of Poland this winter. A city resident is busy fixing up a storefront on Main Street to house a new Polish bar and club.

It's hard enough to try and negotiate the 100 plus yards of real estate, kicking a soccer ball through a purposeful defense willing to sell out for a wicked collision along the journey.

Wednesday afternoon is turning out to be a very busy day for emergency workers and area public work crews.

Connecticut State Police said an Ansonia man escaped from a halfway house in Waterbury and was taken into custody in Danbury on Oct.

Misdemeanor assault and breach of peace charges against Maryland freshman basketball player Jordan Williams of Torrington were dropped Monday in Litchfield, according to the Baltimore Sun.

The girlfriend of the Ansonia man arrested last month in connection with the death of their three-month-old daughter was arrested herself Friday for an unrelated incident this past summer.

Three Ansonia officers saved a wheel-chair bound woman in a multi-family house fire Friday evening, police say.

A fire, thought to be at least partly fueled by a oxygen tank, left one man dead and his wife in critical condition Friday night. VIDEOS FROM THE SCENE

An elderly man was killed and his wheelchair-bound wife was taken to the Bridgeport Hospital burn unit after a massive house fire at 16 Fifth St.

A 28-year-old man was shot and killed at 734 Orchard St. early this morning, police said.

A man accused of killing a neighbor with an ax and dumping his body in Suffield this summer was indicted for murder today, the Norfolk District Attorney's office said.

A British coroner says a girl who died after receiving a vaccine against cervical cancer was likely killed by a tumor.