Old Saybrook News

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."

Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection on Monday announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Debris Program has awarded $752,822 in federal funds to the State of Connecticut through an agreement for removal of marine debris from Connecticut's shoreline.

Operation Fuel, known for helping needy families get home heating oil and pay overdue utility bills, has opened its summer energy assistance program.

More calls are coming into the Estuary Center each day requesting services through the "Meals on Wheels" program, which benefits the nine estuary towns.

Rebecca Barnard, a 2013 Temple University graduate, uses a large net to sweep the water for native and non-native shrimp along the dock at the Old Saybrook Town Dock Friday.

An accident involving a motorcycle and a car tied up traffic on I-95 South for hours Sunday evening, a Westbrook state trooper said.

Israel-Palestinian conflict Relatives mourn outside a hospital following an Israeli air strike killed three members of al-Shair family in Khan Yunis in the southern of Gaza strip on July 20. Hamas 's armed wing said on Sunday it had captured an Israeli soldier, as fighting in Gaza led to the bloodiest losses in a nearly two-week military offensive, ... (more)

A 5-year-old Kansas girl who was kidnapped on Friday night died in a gun battle between police and her abductor following a high-speed chase, police said on Saturday.

The zoning board of appeals has continued its public hearing on an appeal of a town cease and desist order for a disputed structure at 33 Plains Road to an August 19 session.