Category Archives: Local News
THURSDAY MORNING UPDATE
NEW LONDON BUDGET PASSED The New London city council has approved a 90-million dollar budget. The spending plan will increase the city's tax rate by more than nine-percent. Opponents argue the hike wi...
Jun 01, 2017
WEDNESDAY EVENING UPDATE
WORK CENTER AT YORK NIANTIC, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut's Correction Department has opened a job training center at the state's only prison for women. The American Job Center at the York Correctional In...
May 31, 2017
WEDNESDAY MORNING UPDATE
FIGHTING ADDICTION A local group that's working to create a coordinated response to the opioid epidemic has released a comprehensive action plan. Members of the New London Opioid Action Team met with ...
May 31, 2017
TUESDAY EVENING UPDATE
EDUCATION SPENDING CUTS COULD HIT TEACHING SLOTS Twelve teaching positions, six at the elementary school level, the other six at the Sixth Grade Academy, could be on the chopping block as part of a 1-...
May 30, 2017
TUESDAY MORNING UPDATE
HIKER FALLS TO HIS DEATH KILLINGLY, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut environmental authorities say a man who fell about 100 feet from a cliff while hiking at Ross Pond State Park has died. Environmental Conse...
May 30, 2017
FRIDAY EVENING UPDATE
PASTOR SEX ASSAULTS The former pastor of a Connecticut church has been convicted of sexually assaulting female parishioners, including a 15-year-old girl who later had suicidal thoughts. A jury Thursd...
May 26, 2017
FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE
PASTOR GUILTY A pastor from Clinton was found guilty in Middlesex Superior Court yesterday on sexual assault and other charges. Francisco Moran was a pastor with The Good Samaritan Church in Old Lyme ...
May 26, 2017
THURSDAY EVENING UPDATE
OSTEN ALLEGEDLY HIT BY SON-IN-LAW A wild incident involving Sprague senator Cathy Osten leads to the arrest of her son-in-law. Police say it all began when 39-year-old Timothy Stahl got into a heated ...
May 25, 2017
THURSDAY MORNING UPDATE
MAULING TRIAL CONTINUES The trial continued yesterday in Danielson Superior Court for the woman charged with reckless endangerment after her dogs mauled a home health aide in 2014. A neighbor of Jenna...
May 25, 2017
WEDNESDAY EVENING UPDATE
HOUSE APPROVAL OF CASINO BILL UNCERTAIN HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - While the Connecticut state Senate has passed legislation allowing a new satellite casino to be built by the Mohegan and Mashantucket-Peq...
May 24, 2017
