New London News

Blake Lamothe, right, addresses a group gathered in October 2012 at the Palmer Steaming Tender Restaurant on Depot Street, which he owns, signaling a special passenger train trip from New London, Conn., to Brattleboro Vt.

The northeast district of the city, which includes Hodges Square, Riverside Park and the surrounding neighborhood, is home to about 3,000 residents and another 3,000 students, cadets and faculty at Connecticut College and the Coast Guard Academy.

Ron Gaska and Sir Jasper want to get rolling again and may be able to as a result of a crowdfunding effort intent on raising the $3,600 necessary to repair belts and wheels on Gaska's custom-made, motorized wheelchair.

Dick Campo of Waterford, drummer and founder of the Dick Campo Big Band, plays his Gretsch drum set, resembling the color scheme of a 1957 Chevy, at his home in Waterford on March 6. Yeah, yeah, yeah, John, Ringo, George and Paul.

The city will see a 10 percent increase in the cost of its liability and auto insurance policy and an increase in its deductible for that policy to $500,000, the city's finance director said Friday.

More than 40 youth groups, civic organizations, local bands and Irish civic groups will participate in this year's St. Patrick's Day parade in downtown New London, parade organizers announced.

New London Police arrested a former New London man Friday on charges he sexually assaulted a young girl left in his care.

The ShopRite of New London, located at 351 North Frontage Road in New London , has initiated a voluntary recall of all store-made ground meat produced and sold between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. on Thursday, March 6. There is a possibility that these products may contain small pieces of hard plastic.

With the deadline approaching for online enrollment and tax subsidies, a final push is on to get as many people signed up for health insurance through the state's online marketplace as possible over the next three weeks.

I wasn't planning on feasting on goat meat the other day, but that's exactly what I did when Managing Editor Tim Cotter and I went to check out the In-N-Out Caribbean Cuisine in New London.

Behind-the-scenes negotiations, with an eye towards a settlement, are in the works between the city and Thomas Northup, a former New London police officer fired for shooting and wounding the unarmed driver of a stolen ice truck.

Rabid Facebook groups are popping up with the very apparent objective of controlling the New London administration and elected leadership.

A Maryland-based investment group announced Thursday its intention to pump $1.6 million into the rehabilitation of Huntington Towers, a three-decade-old downtown building with 120 affordable apartments for seniors and the disabled.

Earlier this year, in welcoming the new president of Connecticut College, Katherine Bergeron, to New London, I suggested she might want to have lunch with Mayor Daryl Finizio, to help warm up town-gown relations.

And perhaps no other agency in the region is more acutely aware of that than Chid & Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut.

Two New London organizations were awarded a total of $188,055 in funding for several projects under the state 2014 Nonprofit Grant Program .

Google's mystery barge is floating toward its new home 80 miles to the east after being ordered to leave San Francisco.

The cars that have been targeted were usually unlocked, according to a statement from the New London Police Department, and most thefts have taken place south of Bank Street.

The City Council this week approved a $20,000 appropriation from state Local Capital Improvement Program funding to help pay for the repair and replacement of cameras and associated equipment for police vehicles.

An 83-year-old disabled man has been charged with sexually assaulting a mentally challenged woman on Dec. 15 at the George Washington Carver housing complex in New London.