Windsor News

He crept into young women's apartments while they slept and would wake them, brandishing a handgun.

Bail for a 49-year-old Windsor man charged with biting his wife and threatening her with a knife today was set at $10,000 by a Superior Court judge.

Debra Butryman, 46, of Broad Street in Windsor, was sentenced to a one-year suspended term and three years of conditional discharge in Superior Court in Enfield.

Josephine Douglas' husband was cooking fried chicken on the stove when a fire swept through their Burnside Avenue apartment complex a few months ago.

He and the rest of the family rushed out of the apartment without remembering to turn off the stove, causing a second fire that heavily damaged the apartment and destroyed much of the family's furniture and clothing.

Douglas, an employee at the Village at Buckland Court senior living community in South Windsor, recalled Wednesday how the fire left her family in chaos.

I was performing an inspection for a priest at a rectory. I was on the third floor, which was hardly ever used, and opened a closed door to find a cat in the urinal.

Robert J. Dillon, who started working as a teenager in the Palisado Avenue restaurant named after his father and went on to manage Bart's Drive-In for nearly four decades, died Saturday at Hartford Hospital .

The decision may not be made until the Town Council's Monday meeting, but most councilors already know which candidate they favor for the high-paying town manager position.

Sam Buca's, at 110 Main St. in the Broad Brook section of East Windsor , will host a wine dinner July 19 from 4 to 6 p.m. A four-course meal will feature an entree of blackened chicken over mashed potatoes with ...

Jealousy about a shared girlfriend led to a fight that ended with a drug-dealing father of five fatally shooting his rival and another man inside a defunct Bristol trucking company June 22, according to an ...

A Windsor man who bought furniture he knew was stolen from The Hartford by one of its managers was sentenced Tuesday in Bridgeport to four years' probation.

Terrance Healy, 63, who operated a furniture installation and interior design firm called Sundrop Corp., was ordered to spend the first 12 months of probation in home confinement with electronic monitoring.

He also must perform 300 hours of community service and pay $71,854.50 of restitution to The Hartford Financial Services Group.

Despite more troopers on the road and more sobriety checkpoints, this past 4th of July weekend was deadly, with at least seven fatalities on state and town roads, state police said.

'We had none last year,' state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said Monday. 'There's no rhyme or reason. We had extra people out there, our ticket numbers were up. We're doing everything we can do.'

Vance said police were unsure whether traffic would be heavier or lighter this holiday, given the high price of gasoline. But as it turned out, traffic volume was heavy throughout the weekend, which may have contributed to the high number of deadly accidents.

The president of Capitol City Ryders, a motorcycle club in Hartford, said the news of a deadly crash that stopped highway traffic quickly made its way through the riding circuit.

Two motorcycle drivers were killed and one of their passengers was seriously injured in a crash involving a tractor-trailer on I-91 north Sunday night, state police said.

One driver was identified by state police as Robert Ramkissoon, a 33-year-old man from Windsor.

The name of the other driver is being withheld until next of kin are notified. His passenger, Korey Morrison, 29, of South Windsor, was taken to Hartford Hospital with serious head injuries and spine and rib fractures, state police said.

A rally in Hartford's Bushnell Park to show that 'Hartford Cares,' followed by the closing of two of the city's nine branch libraries were the biggest events in the Capital City this past week.

Increasing fuel costs are grounding many of Connecticut's private pilots and forcing some small airports to boost their fees for lessons, hangar space and equipment rentals.

Some may say urban preserve is an oxymoron right up there with jumbo shrimp or deafening silence.

The donation will be made during a ceremony at 11 a.m. July 8 at Price Chopper Supermarket, 675 Poquonock Ave.

State police are investigating a bicycle accident that has left a bicyclist in serious condition at a Hartford hospital.

An East Windsor man whom police describe as a heroin-addicted serial robber was arrested Wednesday in connection with April holdups in East Hartford and South Windsor. Thomas Phillips, 41, was arrested on warrants charging him with robbing five stores in the two neighboring towns. He lived on South Main Street in East Windsor until his May 3 arrest by Windsor Locks police, who say they found him in a motel lobby after he struggled with the owner of a package store in a bungled holdup, robbed a gas station convenience store, engaged police in pursuit and hid in the ceiling rafters of Bradley Bowl. Phillips was more successful in hiding from police April 23, when he climbed a tree outside his home as soon as he saw officers coming, the arrest warrants state.

A Manchester man has been arrested in connection with a November car crash that took the life of Windsor High School senior Michael Fairnot.

Antoine Lucy, 18, was charged with negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, reckless driving, driving the wrong way on a divided highway and traveling unreasonably fast, police said.

Lucy turned himself in to Windsor police Friday and was released on $25,000 non-surety bond, police said. He is scheduled to appear in Superior Court in Enfield on July 1.