Bantam News

Police in Connecticut say they arrested four teenagers who misunderstood a woman's screams and beat a 25-year-old man who was having sex with her in her bedroom.

In the only-in-Kent department. A phony Indian is claiming that the state can't go after him for possessing pot on the Schaghticoke reservation along the Housatonic River in Kent.

State police are investigating new allegations against the former New Fairfield officer already accused of stealing donated exercise equipment from the town's police department, a prosecutor said.

It's sort of a joke among authors. Any writer will tell you the number one question they hear at readings is: "Where do you get your ideas?" Well, Luanne Rice , we're not kidding around: where DO you get your ideas? The Connecticut native, who still lives part-time in the Old Lyme house she grew up in, is a bestselling machine whose latest, "The ...

Carol King is a former contributing editor at House & Garden and a freelance garden and lifestyle writer.

Playing dead is taking on a whole new meaning for prosecutors in Connecticut. They thought a man charged in 2004 a narcotics case in Litchfield had died, until they found him very much alive in New York.

Actor Rip Torn is trying to avoid a drunken driving charge in Connecticut by applying for an alcohol education program.

A 27-year-old Danbury man has been charged in connection with sexually assaulting a minor in 2002, police said.

RIP Torn sitting in the Bantam, Conn., courthouse awaiting his DUI pretrial hearing .

Who in history has been the subject of the most books? According to one cataloguer, Jesus leads the list, followed by Shakespeare and then the Virgin Mary, with Abraham Lincoln in fourth place.

In Dashing Through the Snow , there's a picturesque snowbound village in New Hampshire full of Christmas cheer, and there is a cast of local characters whose faces are "glowing with good will" as they ...

The husband of an Oxford town official was arraigned Friday in Milford Superior Court on charges that he sexually assaulted two young girls over an extended period.

A 38-year-old Torrington man was arrested on an outstanding warrant for 1st-degree larceny and 3rd-degree burglary Tuesday, police said.

A 32-year-old Pumpkin Hill Road man was arrested Tuesday for Monday's robbery at Webster Bank, less than 24 hours after the crime.

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A former president and treasurer of the East School PTO accused of embezzling funds from the school group appeared in court for the first time Monday.

A local woman arrested early on Saturday for striking her boyfriend during a domestic dispute on Oak Avenue has been referred to the court system's family services division.

A Harwinton man who faces charges for an armed robbery and area burglaries was arrested again Monday for allegedly stealing two chainsaws and an air compressor from a Torrington home.

Allegedly threatening a woman with a weapon and then engaging police in a pursuit landed one city resident behind bars with a $250,000 bond Wednesday night.