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UConn students head back to campus
STORRS, CT. (WFSB) - Channel three is your back to school authority - including college. Today at UConn - it was move in day and channel three New London Bureau Chief Luke Hajdasz was on campus as students arrived. “You got it?”. Angelina Shannon has her arms full - she’s...
Baystate Medical Center hosts annual back-to-school drive for Western Mass students
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Baystate Medical Center hosted their annual back-to-school drive in Springfield Friday to support children in Western Mass ahead of their first day. More 3000 students across eight schools in Springfield will receive several classroom supplies including pencils, notebooks, markers and calculators. The items, which were requested...
Man with 12 active warrants arrested in Montville
MONTVILLE — A man wanted on multiple warrants was apprehended by police Thursday morning after being spotted driving northbound on Route 32 near the Norwich town line. Jake Pendergast, 33, initially gave officers a false identity during a traffic stop at about 8:55 a.m. Authorities were able to confirm Pendergast’s true identity and arrested him on the outstanding warrants without incident.
Person arrested after displaying firearm while operating vehicle in Thompson
THOMPSON, CT (WFSB) - A person was arrested after displaying a firearm while operating a vehicle on I-395 in Thompson Friday night. State police say that at around 6:25 P.M., Troop D received a report that a person displayed a firearm while operating a vehicle on I-395 in Thompson. Troopers...
Programs at Norwich Free Academy helping students get a leg up in the medical field
HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - Channel 3 is your back to school authority!. At Norwich Free Academy, there’s a new program helping students get a leg-up in the medical field. As channel three new London bureau chief Luke Hajdasz explains - students are already benefitting. Dressed in their scrubs -...
Incidents in Portsmouth, Berlin prompt action from NH Civil Rights Unit
State prosecutors are bringing additional civil complaints against a 31-year old man accused of smashing historic lanterns at Temple Israel in Portsmouth. Meanwhile, they’ve also settled a separate civil rights case with a 22-year-old Berlin man who repeatedly stole LGBTQ+ pride flags from a home in that community. In...
PREVIEW: Hartford Host League-Leading Louisville City FC
Location: Trinity Health Stadium, Hartford, Connecticut. HARTFORD ATHLETIC (7-12-4) vs LOUISVILLE CITY FC (17-4-2) Hartford Athletic have a chance to take six points away from this home stand after an uplifting win over Las Vegas last week, but they’ll need to beat the top team in the USL Championship tomorrow night to do it.
'Give them hope': A pickleball program inside a CT prison helps incarcerated people find self-worth
Caesar Oneil and three other pickleball players are doing warm-up exercises in an echoey gym. They’re not at just any gym. They're playing on a court in Suffield, inside the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison, where they are incarcerated. Their coach, Angelo Rossetti, shows up a few...
Wrong-way driver on I-90 charged with DWI
A Connecticut man was charged with driving while intoxicated after he was driving wrong way on I-90. State Police said troopers stopped a vehicle driven by Edilson Joviana Pereira, 35, of West Hartford, after they observed it going west in the eastbound lanes just before 1 a.m. on Aug. 18.
Simsbury slips past Avon golfers in season-opening match
AVON, August 22, 2024 – Caleb Calitri had one birdie and eight pars as he shot an even-par 36 to lead the Simsbury High boys golf team to a three-stroke season opening win over Avon, 155-158, at Blue Fox Run on Thursday. Elijah LaTour shot a 39 for Simsbury...
Community organizations, businesses donate food and essentials to New Britain families
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — A collaboration between community organizations and their business partners resulted in the distribution of food and essentials to nearly 400 New Britain families on Wednesday. According to a release from Price Rite Marketplace, the supermarket retailer teamed up with the hunger-fighting charity Feed the Children,...
Interview: Two-time Puerto Rican Olympian India Pagán talks the 2024 Games and other basketball experiences
Swish Appeal is thrilled to share this conversation with with India Pagán. The New London, CT basketball legend—who was selected as the city’s best player of the 2010s—is a two-time Olympian with the Puerto Rico National Team. Pagán played for Stony Brook Seawolves for five years, then moved to Germany and Czechia. She is now in Puerto Rico; we actually got to talk a day before her flight.
Palmer sues PFAS makers, says landfill is contaminated
PALMER — Two closed landfills here are leaching so-called forever chemicals into groundwater, and now the town has joined a suit against PFAS manufacturers, alleging product liability and negligence, and seeking costs to cover testing and remediation. PFAS, short for “per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances,” are a group of thousands...
Oxford daycare submerged in five feet of water determined to rebuild
OXFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - The damage from Sunday’s rain storm has been devastating, but not enough to crush people’s spirits. Small businesses along the Little River were badly flooded, including a daycare. Creative Starts Learning Center was submerged in 5 feet of water. “Never in my life have...
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