Category Archives: Local News

NEWTOWN REPORT DUE TOMORROW HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut State Police say they are releasing a report Friday on the agency's response to the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary Schoo...

POSITION NIXED About a month after Griswold officials signed a newly created town administrator contract, a bureaucratic snafu has led to its nullification. Although the previous board, led by previou...

TRANSPORTATION WORK SUSPENDED HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Gov. Dannel Malloy says he's postponing indefinitely $4.3 billion in transportation projects until state lawmakers approve more money for them. He ca...

CMEEC GRAPPLING WITH ETHICS The Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative ethics meeting was held Tuesday. Officials struggled with the delicacy of language and the harshness of the mandates o...

GOVERNOR PROPOSES BUMP STOCK BAN HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has proposed a statewide ban on bump stocks, the devices designed to make semi-automatic rifles mimic the firi...

MAN ARRESTED FOR HOME INVASION A Groton man has been arrested after allegedly entering his girlfriend's home without permission and going on a rampage, punching and strangling her multiple times. The ...

TAX COLLECTIONS UP, MEDICARE SAVINGS RESTORED HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The office of Connecticut's governor says the state's projected revenue from personal income tax collections has risen by more than...

PFIZER CUTTING JOBS Pfizer has announced it expects to reduce 300 positions in the coming months, with about 100 expected at Groton. Pfizer announced that it has decided to halt its neuroscience early...

MAILMAN INJURED A U-S postal deliveryman in Norwich suffers a serious leg injury Friday due to a hit and run crash. City police say it occurred around 11 AM on Washington Street near the intersection ...

NEAR BLIZZARD SURVIVED Southeastern Connecticut seems to have made it through yesterday's near blizzard. City and town leaders throughout New London County reported few major problems but by evening, ...