Waterbury News

There are 10 inmates on Connecticut's death row: NAME: Lazale Ashby, 24 CRIME; Ashby was convicted of raping and murdering his 21-year-old neighbor, Elizabeth Garcia, in her apartment on Dec.

Chestnut Hill BioEnergy LLC confirmed Wednesday they are pulling the plug on plans to build a waste-to-energy plant in Waterbury, Conn., amid public outry, but are committed to building a facility elsewhere in the state.

A Massachusetts company says it is no longer interested in building a garbage-to-energy power plant in Waterbury.

A Connecticut firm offered a $32 million contract for the planned SUNY Orange expansion in Newburgh was prohibited from building a nearby Thruway interchange four years ago because of long-standing suspicions that the company's founder and president had Mafia connections.

It's the kind of anniversary no one wants to commemorate: Five years ago today, on July 1, 2004, Gov.

A Connecticut partnership has bought six nursing homes in the state that have been operating in receivership because of Marathon Healthcare's bankruptcy filing.

A Hartford County resident with swine flu died Friday, the fifth state death linked to the H1N1 virus.

By ELIZABETH CAMPBELL His heart and kidneys were failing, but the Rev. Bill Belury was determined to perform the wedding of his oldest grandson in California last weekend.The family gathered at Ocean Beach with waves crashing against a cliff, son Josh Belury said.Mr. Belury was in a wheelchair and on oxygen, but during the wedding, he seemed to ...

An action movie written by a Waterbury native will soon begin filming in Connecticut.

There was a small fire at the West Side Middle School in Waterbury, Wednesday morning.

The Board of Finance last week deferred action on a $26,000 payment for fire hydrant maintenance on Federal Road due to what members saw as a lack of information on the expenditure.

New Canaan commuters will have an opportunity to voice their opinions on improving service along Metro-North's New Canaan and Waterbury branches from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 18, at the Stamford's Ferguson Library, One Public Library Plaza.

Biz Buzz Submitted by Nancy Andrews on 2009-06-19.   Nancy Castonguay Recently laid-off workers just completed a unique Connecticut Business & Industry Association program that teaches them new skills that will help them land high-demand jobs in manufacturing.

Three hundred students at the Yukon Flats School District in rural Alaska, 11,000 students in 15 urban Chicago elementary schools, and 9,000 students in Waterbury, CT, are among the 57 low-income school districts across the country that'll benefit from $18.5 million in federal grants from the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program.

He loves wildlife and he loves body art, and he hopes soon to incorporate both loves at a tattoo parlor/gallery downtown.

A woman in her 40s is the third person in the state to die after contracting swine flu.

A pair of robbers fired their weapon inside a Waterbury convenience store during a midday robbery Sunday, police said.

Connecticut health officials say the death of a child from New Haven County is the second in the state linked to the swine flu virus.

A six year old Waterbury boy has dies after complications from the H1N1 virus. School officials were informed on Thursday that the unidentified boy had died at Yale New Haven hospital.

The swine flu kills a second person in Connecticut. The latest victim a kindergarten aged child from Waterbury.