Willington News

Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman on Wednesday announced that the State Bond Commission, chaired by Governor Dannel P. Malloy, is expected to support a $400,000 bond item for the Tolland County Mutual Aid Fire Service to upgrade their radio dispatch system.

The listeria-related recall of potentially contaminated fruit this week from certain grocery stores in Connecticut and across the nation is no reason for people to panic, a Yale University medical expert said Wednesday.

Two men have been charged in connection with a June 14 shooting that left a 25-year-old man in critical condition, according to police.

Police responded to the area about 10:45 a.m. after a person called in and said he would shot his mother, his father and then himself, police said.

Officers arrested a man and seized a small amount of crack cocaine and some cash Tuesday at an apartment on Ward Street, police said.

These mosquitoes, which were identified by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, were the first of the year to test positive for the virus, DPH said.

The woman who was driving the older Chevrolet Blazer was on the bank of the pond in the 800 block of Vernon Street when firefighters arrived at about 2:30 p.m., Fire Chief Robert Bycholski said.

A local man attempting to move a large turtle out of the road on Evergreen Avenue last Tuesday was bit by a dog, police said.

Officers are looking for the suspect involved in the armed robbery of The Nutmeg State Federal Credit Union on Prospect Hill Road Monday afternoon, police said.

Rodolfo Gomez-Rosa, 28, was shot in the leg about 10:40 p.m. Saturday night on Lenox Avenue after he tried to run from a man who had demanded money from him.

Angry that he could find no smokeable cigarette butts in a trash barrel, a young man set a fire that heavily damaged a Spruce Street bar late last year, police said.

When parents help teenagers shop for a used car, they should focus heavily on safety, worry less about style and avoid the lure of high horsepower, Connecticut's top motor vehicles official says.

Hillary Clinton , the former first lady and secretary of state who is said to be considering a run for president, drew hundreds of people who waited hours to meet her at a book signing at R.J. Julia Booksellers on Saturday.

A moose was reported on I-84 near the Cheshire Waterbury line, and on Hall Street in Cheshire, a spokesman from the Department of Environmental and Energy Protection said.

The effectiveness of about 5,000 vaccinations given over the last year and a half at Hartford HealthCare Medical Group locations may have been compromised by issues with temperature control where they were stored, a spokesperson said Friday.

A man stole an unspecified amount of money when he robbed the First County Bank on Westport Avenue Thursday morning, police said.

A former clerk for the Connecticut General Assembly who moonlighted as a bouncer/DJ at Kahoots was sentenced to seven years in prison Wednesday for selling cocaine to undercover police officers at the strip club last year.

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Seeking to energize his campaign, Republican candidate for governor John McKinney on Thursday accused rival Tom Foley of fiscal naivete and shifting positions on government spending in the first major debate of the election cycle.

Musician Kenn Morr said an unfortuate incident led to the creation of his latest album.