Torrington News

An 87-year-old man drove away from his home around 10:30 a.m. Saturday and had not returned as of late Saturday night, according to police, who were searching for him.

Today is a statewide Day of Caring and Compassion and 15 fire stations around Connecticut - including Westport Fire Headquarters - will serve as collection centers for donations of nonperishable food to help replenish the state's two main food pantries.

Mary-Selvi Ingoldsby of Torrington is a senior at the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford , where she is majoring in drawing.

A battle is brewing in Kent over whether a Sept. 11 memorial will say a fallen resident was "Murdered by Moslem extremists," and Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly is getting involved.

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Torrington firefighters fought a 3 alarm fire at a commercial building at 644 Main St.

An 86-year-old woman was critically injured and another woman suffered minor injuries in a one-vehicle crash on South Main Street Saturday.

A Litchfield County marketer with exclusive rights to manufacture certain Michael Jackson memorabilia was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for dodging taxes and hiding money from the IRS .

Remember the ad that suggested "Sometimes you feel like a nut." That's exactly how I feel each time I attend "The Rocky Horror Show," and, honestly, I don't feel the least bit compromised as a critic joining in with the crazed cult followers of this raunchy entertainment.

Clubs & Organizations Submitted by Warner Theatre on 2009-10-27.   On Saturday, Nov.

Government Announcements Submitted by Office of Congressman John B. Larson on 2009-10-23.   CT-U.S. Congressman John B. Larson will host a public forum on the state of our nation's health care system at Northwestern Connecticut Community College on Sunday, Oct.

Junot Diaz , who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," will speak and take questions Friday at 6 p.m. in the atrium of the Hartford Public Library.

The following trips are being planned by Our Lady of Victory Social Group: Wednesday, Oct.

Two people are in critical condition at Hartford Hospital after being involved in a head-on crash about 11 a.m. Tuesday on Route 202 in New Hartford, state police said.

Matt Pagano. The Northwest Corner's 6th Annual "Tour of the Litchfield Hills" Cycling Tour held August 2recently donated $88,000 raised at this year's event to The Center for Cancer Care Fund, Inc.

Historically, nursing did not have a formalized process for yearly competencies.

The Governor says the $220,000 research project, which is only half-way done, is money well spent.

A public document released Tuesday contradicts Gov. M. Jodi Rell 's claim that her office last year rejected the idea of doing a publicly funded poll as part of a now-controversial study by a UConn professor.

Joan Stolicny of Torrington is a recent octogenarian and a retired high school art teacher who earned her master's degree with a study of Connecticut's rustic beauty, including numerous paintings of lily pads, roaring brooks and rock walls.

A 35-year-old Torrington man was killed Saturday afternoon after he lost control of the motorcycle he was riding on Route 72 near Exit 7, state police said.