Waterbury News Archives

The Waterbury Fire Department has moved Henry S. Chase School students from the lower level of the school to a safe area within the school after a gas main broke about 20 feet away on Wednesday morning.

A man was taken to the hospital with a mangled leg Monday after saying he'd been hit by a Metro-North train as it was leaving the Seymour station.

Lawyers for a former Central Connecticut State University student have asked the state Appellate Court to rule that she did not plagiarize another student's term paper.

The milling and resurfacing project previously announced by the state Department of Transportation is scheduled to begin tonight, Oct.

Local and state officials met Monday about several projects that have been delayed indefinitely, including the widening of Mill Plain Road and improvements to Interstate 84.

A man who robbed a Webster Bank on Queen Street Thursday was arrested after investigators discovered he had cashed stolen checks at the bank on Monday, police said.

State Police Troop I is investigating a one-car crash in which three adults, all from Waterbury, were killed when their car struck a tree along Route 69.

A 21-year veteran of the Waterbury police department has been named as the city's new police chief.

Connecticut officials say budget problems have forced them to delay the final phase of an Interstate 84 widening project between Southington and Waterbury indefinitely.

Connecticut environmental police say they've charged a Waterbury man with negligent hunting after he shot another hunter while aiming at a pheasant in Canaan.

There's no need to double check your calendars, it is still October, even with the snow on the ground.

A 17-year-old girl was charged with murder today in the death of her grandmother, Italia Ligouri, last month, police said.

A Connecticut company that is developing a promising swine flu vaccine will have to wait until next year to gain approval from the Food and Drug Administration .

Discovered in Connecticut long after they died, these three nameless bodies are among about 40,000 that linger in morgues and unmarked plots throughout the country: Asian male - 90 percent skeletonized; found in 1992 in woods in Milford ; wearing a shirt with the logo "Forever" on the left chest pocket; shot four times in the head.

Rumbles of thunder and flashes of lightning lit up parts of Connecticut early Wednesday, with the promise of high winds and possible power outages later in the day.

An internal affairs report said a Waterbury police officer who was fired after police found drugs inside his wrecked pickup truck was drinking before the accident.

Parents of a baby girl born 10-1-1970 in or near Waterbury Connecticut. Possibly with red hair.

Fire officials are investigating the cause of an overnight two-alarm fire at vacant building in Waterbury.

As school buses left Margaret M. Generali Elementary School in Waterbury, some parents were coming to the school to pick-up their children instead.

Teacher smashes glass jar in class in frustration WATERBURY, Conn. - Waterbury officials say a Wilby High School teacher smashed a glass jar against a marker board in frustration with his class and had to be escorted off school property.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro says she was surprised by what she learned Monday morning on the 9:15 to Bridgeport: People rely on the train for lots of reasons.

A list of military personnel with ties to Connecticut who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Derek Poundstone can bench press 550 pounds and he can dead lift 900 pounds. While some people tweet about movies, books or who they have meetings with, he tweets about pulling a fire truck in his spare time.

A 69-year-old Naugatuck woman has been killed and a suspect is being detained in what police are investigating as a homicide.