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Eighteen middle and high school students carefully and patiently excavated a section of ground around the Welles Shipman Ward House in the sweltering heat for five hours Thursday morning, looking for colonial ...

What it doesn't have is a residential component. PRA Development is hoping to change that.

- In the moments after Alfredo 'Junior' Ferrer allegedly shot and mortally wounded his girlfriend Amanda Realie, the three Coventry police officers working that afternoon were quickly overwhelmed.

Ferrer, 43, was moving around behind the Bidwell Tavern at 1260 Main St., carrying his 2-year-old son and a .38-caliber revolver. The situation was bad and on its way to getting worse, with a toxic combination of alcohol, a gun, a child hostage and a convicted felon apparently bent on suicide. Two off-duty officers quickly arrived to help, said Coventry Police Chief Mark Palmer.

On Tuesday, the town council began finalizing a plan it hopes to take to a referendum Election Day, a date that would guarantee a high voter turnout.

The East Central Narcotics Task Force has charged four people with selling or possessing drugs this week in Manchester and Glastonbury.

The latest bust came Thursday night in a parking lot on Birch Street in Manchester, police said.

Michael Richardson, 45, of Manchester was arrested and charged with possession of crack cocaine with intent to sell, possession of crack cocaine, possession of crack cocaine within 1,500 feet of a school and possession of crack cocaine with intent to sell within 1,500 feet of a school, police said. He was observed selling crack to Douglas Waitkevicz, 32, of Manchester, police said. Waitkevicz was charged with posession of crack cocaine and possession of crack cocaine within 1,500 feet of a school, police said.

The abandoned National Welding factory on Cedar Street is coated on the inside with asbestos and sits on ground that is contaminated with petroleum.

But the 4-acre site off Route 9 that town officials have stamped as an eyesore can be cleaned up for commercial development, according to an environmental assessment of the property that was presented to the town council Tuesday night. The town now plans to solicit developers for the site in the next few months.

Dave Hurley, an environmental engineer with the consulting firm Fuss & O'Neill, which conducted the three-phase study with help from the Department of Environmental Protection, told the council that the cost of removing the contamination 'is more than the value of the property, but it's not astronomical.

The Haven Healthcare nursing home chain began a new era Monday, as most of its 25 homes in New England were sold to three real-estate investment firms, while four Connecticut homes were placed in the hands of a ...

Jonathan Jacques is willing a deck of cards to move. He is on his knees in his Glastonbury, Conn., home, rubbing his fingertips together and talking about a guy who can mind-move objects.

FINANCIAL SERVICES Peter F. Samson joined TD Banknorth's commercial lending division, Glastonbury, as a senior vice president.

Michael Templeton, 47, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after East Hartford police stopped him on Burnside Avenue and found a socket that had been converted into a crack pipe in his car, police ...

Police today released a surveillance photo and description of a suspect who held up the American Eagle Credit Union Tuesday.

A Glastonbury police officer on Tuesday told a judge in Superior Court in Hartford that a plea deal for the man who shot him two years ago is 'kind of a slap in the face.' Minutes later, Judge David Gold sentenced Candido Camacho to 15 years in prison, telling him 'you deserve every day' of it. The full sentence is 25 years, suspended after 15, followed by five years of probation. Officer Nathan Saucier suffered from what was described as a 'grazing' type of wound, although prosecutor Sandra Tullius said he still has bullet fragments in his right arm. Camacho, now 43, was living in Hartford when he was arrested in 2006. He pleaded guilty May 21 to first-degree assault and third-degree burglary, a charge that stems from a convenience store break-in he committed shortly before he shot Saucier. His plea on the assault charge was under the Alford doctrine, which means he does not admit guilt, but concedes the state has enough evidence to convict him in a trial. Saucier briefly described his emotions during the early morning struggle with Camacho on June 25, 2006. Camacho is bigger and, at the time of the confrontation, was stronger than Saucier.

A man walked into the American Eagle Federal Credit Union in Glastonbury early Tuesday afternoon, hopped the counter, grabbed some cash and dashed out.

Glastonbury and state police swarmed the area which is just off Exit 8 of Route 2 searching for a suspect who is described as a white male, wearing a knit hat, light blue shirt, blue jeans and sunglasses.

He was last seen fleeing on foot from Sycamore Street to New London Turnpike. A police dog from Manchester was brought in for the search. American Eagle is at 109 Sycamore. The tracked ended on Washington Street.

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The board of education discussed a proposal Monday night that would limit the ranking of high school students according to their grade-point averages.

Glastonbury police say that man who robbed a credit union in Glastonbury was captured.

St. Andrew's Italian Fest: Wooster Square, New Haven - A celebration of everything Italian is kicking off in New Haven today.

A coalition of groups that want Connecticut to allow ballot initiatives like those in California is urging voters to approve a convention in the fall so the state constitution can be changed.

A group that wants Connecticut to allow ballot initiatives like those in California is urging voters to approve a convention this fall so the state constitution can be changed.

When the town council in April held a tour of the vacant Academy School and an informational meeting about its future, residents urged that as much of the historic building be preserved as possible.

On Tuesday, the council heard a new proposal that would save a large portion of the building from the wrecking ball.

Over the past year, Town Manager Richard J. Johnson and the council had discussed two options for the building's 'D' wing, directly behind town hall: renovate it as school administrative offices or demolish it and build a new one for the offices.