Willington News

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.

Nassau's Furniture is closing its warehouse store in South Windsor , open just two years, and will sell the remaining furniture until it's liquidated, or until May 27 at the latest.

Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor has told surprised legislators that his department needs $35 million more to run the 84 magnet schools in the state - on top of the $280 million the agency receives under the state budget.

The finance board has begun reviewing requests for more than $180 million, and Comptroller Glenn Klocko's staff is posting hundreds of pages of documents on the city's website.

Officials at the University of Connecticut intend to vote this week to further increase the cost of attending the state's flagship university over and above the 26 percent, four-year increase already approved.

A Fairfield woman faces larceny and risk of injury to a minor charges after police say she stole money from a tip jar at a local restaurant.

The Avon Congregational Church's legendary 31st Annual Rummage Sale promises to have treasures for everyone! The popular sale is Friday, March 28 from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, March 29 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. All are welcome.

The Pentagon said on Monday it would shrink the U.S. Army to pre-World War Two levels, eliminate the popular A-10 aircraft and reduce military benefits in order to meet 2015 spending caps, setting up an election-year fight with the Congress over national defense priorities.

Officials at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving say they have raised enough money to fund a new scholarship in honor of the late Walter "Doc" Hurley, a former city educator who helped hundreds of students attend college through his own aid program.