Meriden News

According to police, it began in Meriden, Connecticut on April 11. The men invaded a home and bound and gagged four people, including the manager and another employee of a Lenox Jewelry store in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Five people have been charged by federal authorities with involvement in the kidnapping last month of four Meriden residents and robbery of a jewelry store in Fairfield, said a U.S. Attorney's office spokesman.

Five individuals have been charged by federal criminal complaint for their involvement in the kidnapping of four Meriden residents and subsequent robbery of Lenox Jewelers in Fairfield on April 11, 2013.

Windsor Locks Thirty six firefighters from 17 career and volunteer departments from across the state will celebrate their graduation Thursday from the Connecticut Fire Academy.

Maureen Gard at her Meriden, Conn. home with her dog, Demolition. Gard is a student at Quinnipiac University, who raises awareness about military sexual assault.

Robert Braddock Jr. walks outside federal court in New Haven, Conn., Monday May 13, 2013.

The Connecticut State Police confirmed Saturday, May 18, 2013, that the human remains discovered in a wooded area in Trumbull have been identified as missing student Alyssiah Marie Wiley.

Alyssiah Marie Wiley, a 20-year-old Eastern Connecticut State University student, was reported missing to State Police on April 26.

Her most recent novel, "Another Time, Another Place," was published in March. The book tells a multi-generational tale of two women and their loves, which, though years apart, share uncanny similarities.

NORWALK, Conn. Think you have what it takes to become a police officer? Norwalk's Finest may have an opening for you.

Family members of missing ECSU student Alyssiah Wiley scoured a Meriden Park Wednesday night.

Police did a sweep of Canton High School and Canton Middle School on Wednesday morning to look for drugs, the school district has announced.

Questions of dollars, cents and safety are being raised in Meriden. Some people around the city are concerned about a budget plan that could cost the fire department one of its trucks.

Police Chief Keith Mello is halfway toward getting the school resource officers he wants to hire to work in the school system next school year.

The Manchester Police Explorers post performed well in a recent regional competition, earning several first-place finishes, post advisor Sgt.

Kate Lochridge, 4, and brother Liam, 6, of Fairfield, enjoy pink cotton candy, harmonizing with pink dogwood blossoms, Saturday at the 78th Dogwood Festival.

The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's Wildlife Division is seeking volunteers to help investigate the range of periodical cicadas in Connecticut.

From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., residents of the 10 towns can bring up to 5 gallons of hazardous waste per person for free disposal at a special collection site at the Plainville Roadways Garage, 23 Granger Lane, off Route 177.

Magali and Louie Torres met In New York City in 1960 and married in Meriden, Conn.

Middlesex Community College will offer $1,000 scholarship to 10 graduating high school seniors this year as part of an effort to bolster its enrollment with students from smaller towns.