Hamden News

Perhaps it was in a vineyard where it was once said, "With wine, comes truth." For Jacqueline Smith, the truth about this year's Fourth of July was a bit disappointing.

Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a Hamden couple who defrauded the federal Food Stamp Program were sentenced today in Bridgeport federal court.

As it sat on a wrecked, you could see the plaster dust and scrapes along the length of a Saturn, after it plowed though one garage, down an embankment and into the garage next door.

People Submitted by Stephanie Kruzick on 2009-06-30.   Quinnipiac University Cynthia Christie of Hamden, assistant dean for career services in the School of Health Sciences at Quinnipiac University, has been elected a trustee of the Connecticut Career Counseling and Development Association.

Americans once considered long holiday weekends an ideal time to hit the road. But with the nation still in the grips of a financial crisis, fewer people are willing to spend cash on a decadent vacation.

A Southington woman has been crowned the new Miss Connecticut. Sharalynn Kuziak beat out 18 other women to win the title and an $8,000 scholarship.

A Connecticut man is challenging Milford's attempts to block him from reopening his exotic smoking lounge featuring hookahs and belly dancers.

HAMDEN, Conn. _ The Connecticut AAA says gasoline prices in the state remain among the highest in the region, but they've gone down a bit in recent days.The AAA said Thursday that in the past three days average prices have dropped 3 cents a gallon, the third drop in about two months.AAAs daily Fuel Gauge Report shows average statewide prices for ...

Shoppers at The Home Depot and other stores won't be buying chives that were labeled as leeks, thanks to a Fox61 producer.

Randy Noonan and his wife, Kate, celebrated the birth of their first child Wednesday morning at Danbury Hospital.

Jun. 19, 2009--HAMDEN -- The Planning and Zoning Commission has approved the plan for a hotel on Sherman Avenue.

The Bally Total Fitness Center in Hamden, Ct., is the latest Bally's to close on June 26 under its bankruptcy reorganization.

NAACP officials called for a federal investigation into police conduct in dispersing a crowd at a Boston Post Road nightclub early Saturday morning, a mile from where two teens were killed when their car collided with a returning Milford police cruiser.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell says she opposes tax increases to close the state's yawning budget hole.

The survey released today is the first since Crist, 52, said May 12 he'll seek the U.S. Senate seat of fellow Republican Mel Martinez, who won't run again.

Hamden native Linda Greenhouse has returned to Connecticut after three decades covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times.

Volunteers are sought for the city's fourth annual beach cleanup, which will take place from 10 a.m. to noon March 28 at Sandy Point on Beach Street.

New Haven police are asking for help in finding a navy blue Mercedes involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed an 18-month-old boy and injured three others.

The early days of the swine flu outbreak brought a rash of school closings. Then, with signs that the virus was milder than initially feared, schools reopened and the closures stopped.

The Helen Street Elementary School in Hamden will be closed today and Monday because three students have the H1N1 virus and other students are said to have flu symptoms, too.