Litchfield News

Road conditions were not a factor in the two-vehicle accident that took the life of a South Kent man on Christmas Eve, the investigating trooper at Connecticut State Police Troop L in Litchfield said Monday .

State police confirmed one person has died as a result of a two-car accident on Route 341 Thursday.

Submitted by Peter O'Donnell, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Hartford, on 2009-12-21.   Catholic Charities announced today that it has been awarded $2,000 for its Homelinks Program at Southside Family Center, located at 15 Newfield Avenue in Hartford.

Business executive Mark Greenberg has launched his web site in the race for the Republican nomination in the 5th Congressional District.

One of the partially hidden indicators of financial hardship is the increased use of food stamps.

The display of yellow ribbons in remembrance of friends and family serving far away goes back hundreds of years.

Hundreds of advocates for the elderly, poor and infirm flocked to the Legislative Office Building Wednesday to protest nearly $340 million in new spending cuts proposed by Gov.

Do you get the feeling that Gov. M. Jodi Rell doesn't quite understand what people mean when they say, "I want a Christmas straight out of Charles Dickens ?" They mean they want soft cottony snow coating the lampposts and families gathering by the hearth and hard hearts softening with surges of human kindness.

Farms are being put to bed for the winter, but for some, life remains busy inside their barns.

In his new role, the president and CEO of The First National Bank of Litchfield will be the spokesman for the CBA, which promotes legislative and regulatory actions at the state and federal level that benefit the general welfare of Connecticut banks.

A New Milford man charged with attempting to kill his wife in front of their two young sons was ordered by a Litchfield Superior Court judge Tuesday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Untie the yellow ribbons. That's what the local town board of Litchfield is telling several people who have tied ribbons around five trees on the Litchfield Green.

For the past six years several military mothers here and their supporters have decorated the trees on the town green with yellow ribbons to express their support for local residents who serve in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Simon Foundation based in Bethlehem is seeking vendors for its Dec. 12 holiday bazaar.

The second time 15-year-old Kristi ran from Stepping Stone, a private residential facility for troubled adolescent girls in Waterbury, she was stopped by a fellow resident soon after she fled through a gated exit near the gymnasium.

John Brown : Bloodthirsty terrorist or heroic avenger? Part of the promise of America is that we get to debate these things.

Submitted by Jean Andersen, FAVARH, on 2009-11-23.   FAVARH's BeatleMania Live event was a huge success! With over 400 guests in attendance at the Nov.

A New York agency that deeded 160 acres in Litchfield to the Connecticut Junior Republic in 1915 is seeking to take the property back.

State Police are responding to a standoff at a home on East Litchfield Road South in Litchfield after a man allegedly shot his wife on Tuesday morning.

State Police were able to talk a man down after a nearly 10-hour standoff in Litchfield Tuesday night.