Willington News

In the period leading up to a series of crashes, derailments and deadly on-the-job blunders, Metro-North had gradually let supervisors grow lax, training deteriorate and safety fall to a secondary concern, according to a new federal report.

This "interview" about DDrobney Photography at the Holiday Mall Shopping Center, 1733 Storrs Rd. in Mansfield, was conducted by the owner, Dorothy M. Drobney, filling out this form for Patch and submitting it.

Spring into April with historic home research, college financing advice, bee-keeping, and a look at female spies at Hall Memorial Library, 93 Main Street in Ellington! Do you live in an old house or have an interest in historic buildings? Join House Historian Marion Pierre-Louis on Wednesday, April 2 at 6:30 p.m. to learn the ins and outs of ... (more)

Four days before Veronica Skinzera was found fatally stabbed in Darren Davis' apartment, she told another man that Davis had tried to assault her.

The state Department of Correction said Monday afternoon that convicted killer Steven Hayes was found unresponsive in his cell at Northern Correctional Institution Monday morning.

The 8th Annual Childhood Conversations Conference will take place on Saturday, March 29, at the Hartford- Windsor Marriott Airport Hotel, 28 Day Hill Road in Windsor.

Former Ford Motor Co executive William Clay Ford Sr., the last surviving grandchild of the automaker's founder Henry Ford, died on Sunday at age 88, the company said.

The Keep the Promise Coalition Children's Committee is pleased to announce the release of a new issue brief: Earlier - Better: Communities Proactively Addressing Children's Mental Health One in five children and adolescents have symptoms of a mental illness and only a quarter of these children have access to appropriate mental health ... (more)

A Superior Court judge issued an injunction Thursday barring officers of the Doc Hurley Scholarship Foundation from taking any formal action while the judge considers a request by state officials to dissolve the foundation.

Tolland High School's business club is continuing its strong presence both in the high school community and at the state level.

City council member Henri Martin has announced that he wants the Republican endorsement to run for the state's 31st Senate District seat.

A state board has denied the request of a man who shot and critically wounded a Bethel police officer in 1986 to leave a psychiatric hospital and reside full-time in the Middletown community.

This is the first in our series of "Back to Basics" classes that we will be offering at the farm this year.

State auditors have found that Secretary of the State Denise Merrill's controversial e-newsletter, which she discontinued in October, apparently did not violate state law but "could be perceived" as intended for "partisan political purposes."

Russia has started a build-up of armored vehicles on the Russian side of a narrow stretch of water between Russia and the Ukrainian region of Crimea, Ukrainian border guards said on Monday.

A 20-year-old college student from Westport was killed in a car crash just miles from his school's campus in Minnesota on Friday afternoon, according to a press release from the college.

Former football star Darren Sharper , wanted by New Orleans police as a suspect in two rapes, was arrested on Thursday in Los Angeles, where he pleaded not guilty a week ago to charges of drugging four other women and raping two of them.

The Union School Vision Committee is holding a Ham and Bean Supper on Saturday, March 22 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Congregational Church of Union on Rt.

Through the initiative, called "Stop Tailgating, You're Too Close," troopers doing highway patrols in the Hartford and New Haven areas and along the shoreline will be looking to stop drivers from driving too close to the cars in front of them.

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are engaged! The incredibly cute celebrity couple -- friends since "That '70s Show" and dating since April 2012 -- are reportedly set to make it official.