Old Saybrook News

One memory is clearer than all the others from Jim Bohan's childhood in Leitrim, Ireland: watching his cousin build a violin.

Two historic state-owned ferries have been carrying vehicles and passengers back and forth across the Connecticut River for generations, but this year is the first time they have been emblazoned with commercial advertising.

Crews working to clear the scene of a tractor trailer accident on Interstate 95 North in Old Saybrook plan to reopen all lanes of traffic this afternoon to accommodate rush hour traffic, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Police and emergency crews in the city of Revere, Mass., outside Boston scrambled to clean up after a rare tornado touched down Monday, downing power lines, damaging homes and overturning at least one car.

Shabazz Napier is back in Connecticut, giving his body a much-needed break while doing something new, something he has long looked forward to doing.

A tractor-trailer has gone off the side of the highway at Exit 67. A flat-bed tow truck is also involved in the accident.

Correction Officer Steve Curran pets Prince, who is about a year old, as inmates and dogs participating in the Red Dog Project leave their rooms to go to the solarium in a housing unit at York Correctional Institution in Niantic.

A popular ESPN analyst is being highly criticized for comments he made Friday morning about women and what he seemed to imply could be their potential role in domestic violence.

Police are investigating a late night shooting Friday, which left a 22-year-old man seriously injured in the torso.

The Board of Selectmen has agreed to form a commission that will create a long-term plan to address climate change and its potential effects on the town.

Police are searching for a 21-year old woman who they say was involved in a serious assault and stabbing incident in June.

Two dozen students at a summer program at the University of New Haven are learning engineering skills thanks to 3D printers.

After 53 years in business in downtown New London, Klingerman Travel has completed a move to this town's Flanders section.

News 8 returned to the Merritt Lane which neighbors feared was compromised by beavers burrowing underneath it.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Debris Program has awarded $752,822 to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for the removal from Connecticut's shoreline of marine debris left by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.

Officers responded to the house at 308 Crystal Ave. about 2:50 a.m. after receiving a report of an armed suspect in the home, police said.

A Dutch air force transport plane carrying the first 16 coffins with the remains of victims of the downed Malaysian airliner took off on Wednesday from an airport in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv for the Netherlands.

WASHINGTON - The National Republican Congressional Campaign committee has elevated Mark Greenberg, a candidate for the 5th District congressional seat, to "Contender" status.

When Michigan police found the body of a 25-year-old man in a park last week, they had a macabre mystery on their hands.

Traffic was backed up from Madison back to Old Saybrook and from Madison down to New Haven this past Saturday, when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , made a pit-stop at R.J. Julia's Booksellers to push her own book, "Hard Choices."