Willington News

A 15-passenger van that crashed on I-84 earlier this month, injuring more than a dozen people, may have been operating illegally as a for-hire vehicle.

A vehicle struck a pole on Sugar Hill Road Tuesday afternoon, causing damage to a transformer and leaving about 80 residents without power, officials said.

The Terryville High School Kangaroo mascot has been part of the USA Today Best Mascot Contest for the past three weeks.

A major change is in the works that would permanently diminish the weight of the state's standardized test scores as a component of the new teacher evaluation system, a teachers' union leader says.

Eugene Filshtein was rescued from his Brainard Road home by West Hartford firefighters who responded after a police officer found smoke pouring from the house.

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The Pomfret Republican Town Committee endorsed Penny Bacchiochi in her bid to become Connecticut's next Lieutenant Governor at their meeting on Wednesday, April 9. "Voters in Pomfret know Penny and her record well" said Committee Chair Pam Lewerenz.

The Arthritis Foundation New England Region has named Wade Gibbs of Storrs , CT the Adult Ambassador for the 2014 Greater Hartford Walk to Cure Arthritis .

A Florida man was indicted Wednesday on charges of witness tampering, obstruction of justice and lying to a federal grand jury that is investigating former New England Patriot star Aaron Hernandez 's alleged role in illegal gun trafficking.

Freshman U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty ramped up fundraising in the first three months of the year, raising more than Reps.

Gov. Dannel Malloy's office issued this news release on calling for a special election this November in Tolland, Mansfield, Coventry and Willington to replace Probate Judge Claire C. Twerdy: Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that an election to fill a vacancy for Judge of Probate for the Tolland-Mansfield Probate District, which is ... (more)

High school seniors Gabe Rogan and Andrew Uzdejczyk have been selected to represent the state at the 39th annual American Regions Mathematics League's competition.

Daniel Hamilton and DeAndre Daniels, both LA kids, go way back. When UConn won the national championship, Hamilton texted his congratulations.

Who said the NCAA can't respond in a timely fashion when is under savage daily attack and facing several lawsuits that could put college's governing body out of business? Only days after Connecticut basketball star Shabazz Napier complained that he sometimes went to bed hungry , an NCAA Legislative Council on Tuesday approved a rule that will ... (more)

There he was, unrecognizable, staring back at him in a mirror in a New Haven restaurant where Ireland's lawyers had taken him for a steak dinner on the day he was released from prison after serving 21 years for a crime he did not commit.

Environmentalists in West Haven have raised objections to the proposed site for a Sandy Hook memorial playground because development of the idyllic shoreline location is restricted under a 2007 agreement.

Robert Davidson, a Norwich resident and longtime advocate for people with mental illness, died of brain cancer on March 17 at age 65. Bob Davidson's goal in life was to reduce the stigma suffered by people with mental illness, and help them get the support they needed - preferably in a community setting with housing, peer support and counseling.

Ukrainian security forces launched an operation Sunday to clear pro-Russian separatists from a police headquarters in the eastern city of Slaviansk, with Kiev reporting dead on both sides as it combats what it calls an act of aggression by Moscow.

The Friends of the Canton Public Library will hold a spring used book sale on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the library.

Four nursing homes have been fined by the state Department of Public Health in connection with incidents in which one resident died, another was verbally abused and several female residents were touched inappropriately by a resident.