Willimantic News

Jermaine Richards, right, standing with his lawyer, John R. Gulash, is arraigned on murder and kidnapping charges in the death of Eastern Connecticut State University student Alyssiah Marie Wiley at Superior Court in Bridgeport, Conn.

The lawyer for a Bridgeport man charged with killing an Eastern Connecticut State University student says his client will plead not guilty.

Officers approached Samuel Maldonado, 48, of 3 Bellvue St., at about 6:15 p.m. and observed him reach down into the rear of his gym shorts with one hand.

Jermaine Richards, 30, was charged with murder Saturday afternoon, hours after police confirmed remains found in a wooded area of Trumbull were those of Wiley.

While sounds of live music and other entertainment drifted from Main Street, coming from the first Willimantic Third Thursday Street Fest of the season, huge clouds of brown smoke billowed from the nearby St.

A three-alarm fire has heavily damaged a historic church in Willimantic not far from where people were attending a street festival.

A state police dive team will search several bodies of water on Thursday in the search for missing ECSU student Alyssiah Wiley.

The state House of Representatives on Thursday voted 122-13 in favor of a bill that would require the state's approximately 200 tattoo technicians working at tattoo parlors to obtain a license, which would have to be renewed every two years.

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney announced today that a total of $600,000 in brownfield-cleanup grants have been made available to clean up sites in New London and Willimantic.

Family members of missing ECSU student Alyssiah Wiley scoured a Meriden Park Wednesday night.

A Willimantic man who told police he was a correction officer at a Rhode Island prison was ordered held on $100,000 bail after his arrest twice on Sunday on domestic violence charges.

This is the third Award of Excellence the Mansfield Downtown Partnership has received from the CT Main Street Center.

When Mark Doyle lost his job in August, it wasn't a huge jolt. Doyle, 59, had taken the traveling sales job six months earlier, and it had become clear the business wasn't strong enough to support his territory.

But Lee Barrows, 77, who lives in Canton, found out she could appeal after contacting the Center for Medicare Advocacy in 2009, when her husband Lawrence was admitted to the hospital following a series of falls.

State police are continuing to search for a 20-year-old Eastern Connecticut State University student who was last seen in Willimantic on April 20.

The family of an Eastern Connecticut State University student who's been missing for nearly two weeks is expected to ask for the public's help in finding her.

Brandon "Bo" Bailey-Santouse, of Hartford, was sentenced by a U.S. District judge to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release, the U.S. Attorney said.

Jeepin' for the Cause, a recreational-Jeep ride sponsored by Capitol Chrysler Dodge Jeep to benefit Windham Hospital , is coming up from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Sunday, May 5. "We offer three different trails of varying terrain and difficulty to maximize driver challenge and passenger enjoyment," said Owner/President of Capitol Chrysler Dodge Jeep ... (more)

The Long River Review will be celebrating the launch of its annual magazine publication with a reading and party hosted at the Co-op bookstore at 6pm on Tuesday.

A black Nissan Altima wanted in connection with the disappearance of an Eastern Connecticut State University student was found in the city Friday night.