New London News

Groton Town police arrested a New London couple Monday on charges they left an 8-year-old child unattended in a vehicle for 45 minutes while temperatures inside the car reached from 103 degrees to 114 degrees.

The U.S. Coast Guard helped a boater whose vessel was taking on water off City Pier Saturday, one of several cases the Coast Guard said made for a busy weekend in the Long Island Sound area.

Chiburis is a native theatre artist and musician from the New London and Waterford area.

The Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center has announced the winners of a contest to name three of its new resident birds.

Lori Hopkins-Cavanagh of New London considers herself many things: a real estate broker, a radio show host, a melded family's mother of four, a proud member of the National Rifle Association, a constitutional conservative, an entrepreneur, a small business owner and a former weather anchor.

Emanuel Dominguez, 10, jumps into the water at Greens Harbor Beach on Pequot Avenue in New London early Sunday evening.

Elizabeth Schoenberger, 54, is described as white, five feet, eight inches tall, 125 pounds with brown hair and green eyes.

The consultant hired to lead the search for a new superintendent of schools said last week that her firm will continue its search if the Board of Education does not hire Terrence P. Carter, its embattled first choice.

Rafeed Hussain, center, an intern with Project Oceanology, wears a blue squid hat Saturday while talking to kids about a horseshoe crab aboard the R/V Enviro-Lab II during Fish Tales, Tugs and Sails at the New London Waterfront Park.

Joyful, whimsical, colorful, playful, radiating positive energy all describe "Give me Love: Hearts & Threads," now on view at the diane birdsall gallery in Old Lyme.

New London firefighters work to extricate the victim of a single car rollover accident on Bank Street that occurred around 9:30 p.m. Saturday between Pearl and Golden streets.

Senate Minority Leader John McKinney , of Fairfield, was in high dudgeon this week in reaction to Tom Foley 's call for him to quit the Republican gubernatorial primary that's set for Aug.12.

Jaraad D. Simmons, 23, of 45 Barber St., # 106, Hartford, was charged Wednesday with two counts of second-degree forgery and two counts of criminal attempt at fourth-degree larceny.

Today we get all New London-centric and demonstrate why my drive home from work compares with any hellish commutes you'd find in Houston or Los Angeles.

On July 23 an armed, 15-year-old burglary suspect in New London, Connecticut broke into tears when the armed owner of the home confronted him.

The attorney representing Terrence P. Carter said Friday his client signed an agreement to become the city's next superintendent and has relocated to the city with the understanding that the job was his.

The State Bond Commission approved Friday at least seven bond allocations that will directly affect southeastern Connecticut's towns and cities.

The Coast Guard's Leadership Develop Center will have its first change of command ceremony Thursday, July 31 at 11 a.m. in front of Yeaton Hall at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.

Volunteer Shoshanna Phillips, right, and children participating in the summer program Thursday at Red Tail Learning, an experiential learning center in downtown New London, have a snack and work on art projects outside on the sidewalk while getting some fresh air.

Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr., the newly retired commandant of the Coast Guard, has joined the board of directors of the National Coast Guard Museum Association.