Old Saybrook News

A final review of 2013's unusually high death toll of infants and toddlers shows child-protection officials, pediatricians, and caregivers must pay closer attention to the youngest children in troubled families, the state Office of the Child Advocate said Thursday.

Republican gubernatorial candidate John McKinney on Thursday outlined a two-year budget plan that, following a year of spending cuts, would eliminate the income tax for residents earning less than $75,000 a year.

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Andrew W. Nielsen is accused of ordering the pornography over the Internet in 2010 and 2011 while working as a police officer.

Jessica Barrymore, who shared a father with actress Drew Barrymore, was found dead Tuesday.

Jonathan Gibbs told police he was angry that a young man stole his pricey sneakers in New Britain last year, so he got his gun out of his truck and fired a shot, leaving his DNA on the weapon, a prosecutor told a jury Wednesday.

At a brief court appearance Wednesday, lawyers for Christopher Plaskon, the teenager accused of fatally stabbing a classmate at Jonathan Law High School in April, said they are diligently pursuing their own investigation of the incident and are in process of requesting documentation from the state.

Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis, a teacher credited with saving her class of first-graders during the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, has written a book about the aftermath of the shootings, her publisher announced Tuesday.

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.