Groton News

Above, Julie Victoria, a Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection wildlife biologist, struggles Thursday to pull an osprey chick from its nest to band it.

A sailor stationed at the Naval Submarine Base is dead and a Groton man is charged with assault after a dispute over $15 in a Preston bar early last Friday morning.

The Groton Narcotics Task Force along with members of the Statewide Narcotics Task Force arrested a local man Monday on numerous narcotics charges.

Groton - Residents will have a chance to weigh in on the $10.7 million plan to rehabilitate Thames Street in the City at a public hearing Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall Annex.

A Groton Town man was arrested Sunday on drunken driving and other charges after leaving the scenes of two accidents, one in Stonington and the other in Groton City.

New London - When the position of city police chief opened up last January, Capt.

Groton - The new commander of Submarine Group Two wants to "get back to the basics of submarining." "I think sometimes it gets lost," Rear Adm.

Mystic - After a 13-hour search of Elm Grove Cemetery on Route 27 Tuesday, Stonington police located a missing local woman at a residence in Groton.

Deposited by a glacier thousands of years ago at a strategic spot overlooking Palmer Cove, the squarish granite block known as Patriot Rock or, simply, "the big rock," has embodied history and nostalgia for generations.

Michael and Diane Langlois of Norwich are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Destiney Kimmerle, to Matthew Proctor, the son of John and Marjorie Proctor of Ledyard.

A woman puts oil in her car as she gases up at a Chevron station in Beaverton, Ore., last Friday.

From left Hannah Gonzales and Dennaya Parker-Munden stand together as they prepare to plant a flower pot outside their fellow classmate Zane Mugavero's home in Groton on Wednesday, June 17, 2009.

Lindeman Wins at Monadnock Andy Lindeman won the AllStar Race Truck Series 30-lap green to checker feature event at Monadnock Speedway on Saturday, June 13 th continuing his winning streak.

Sprigs & Twigs Landscapes, LLC, has a stellar reputation throughout the greater Groton, Conn., area.

Police Capt. Margaret Ackley didn't grow up wanting to be a police officer. She didn't have aspirations of solving crimes and getting the bad guys off the streets.

Plans for major upgrades to Thames Street are now estimated at $10.7 million and headed for the November ballot.

Area police responded to two motorcycle accidents within an hour Sunday night. A Norwich resident suffered nonlife-threatening head injuries when the motorcycle crashed into a guard rail on Mumford Avenue at the intersection of Forest Street at 8:30 p.m. The rider was taken to Lawrence & Memorial Hospital.

Blackhawk Visits Old Saybrook School Stuff Submitted by Carina Using on 2009-06-05.   If you were in Old Saybrook on June 2, you may have noticed something in the sky that was strangely reminiscent of some of the military movies that you may have seen.

Connecticut's only scheduled air service to Nantucket has been canceled before the first flight ever took off.

New London's new chief of police not only deserves, but will require, widespread support to succeed in the tough job of policing this small but busy city.