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2024 Osgood Shootout Benefit Basketball Tournament Planned
The widely popular Osgood Shootout scholarship benefit basketball tournament is set for another year of bringing the community together for a good cause, while watching great basketball competition. Coach Darwin Shaw has announced that the 2024 Tournament is to be August 10th and 11th. It will be held at New...
Crime fighters join kids for 'Law Enforcement Day'
FARMINGTON, Conn. — It happens at Camp Courant each summer: Crime fighters from across Connecticut come to visit the kids at the Farmington campus. This year, “Law Enforcement Day” brought representatives from around three dozen Connecticut police departments to interact and have fun with the 700-plus campers at Camp Courant.
119K Commission Brings Education Focus To Hartford
HARTFORD, CT – Dozens of people packed into a sweltering, standing-room-only city council chamber at Hartford City Hall on Tuesday to hear the 119K Commission discuss how education affects disconnected youth, and what can be done to make the education system more effective for them. “Hartford is a really...
Arrest in July 4th Hartford stabbing
Hartford police have arrested a Sherbrooke Ave. man for a July 4th stabbing. They say a woman in her thirties was slashed in the neck around 7 pm on that holiday. She was attacked outdoors near 444 New Britain Ave. She survived.
West Hartford Fire Academy teaches junior cadets the fundamentals of firefighting
NEWINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — Responding to a fire to save a life when only seconds count. Firefighters face that challenge regularly. But what kind of training is needed to put out a wall of flames? At a teen fire academy in Newington, junior cadets are learning the fundamentals of fighting fires. Getting the hose off […]
‘You’re Gonna Press Charges on Me?’: ‘Karen’ Captured on Video Erupting After Small Black Child Mistakenly Sits In Her Seat During Movie, Ends Up with Unpleasant Surprise
A viral video on TikTok shows a woman accosting a mother in front of her children over some reserved seats in a theater showing the […] ‘You’re Gonna Press Charges on Me?’: ‘Karen’ Captured on Video Erupting After Small Black Child Mistakenly Sits In Her Seat During Movie, Ends Up with Unpleasant Surprise
Hartford HealthCare: Care Logistics Center manages patient flow across 7 hospitals
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH)—Hartford HealthCare’s Care Logistics Center is a centralized, innovative hub that manages patient flow across its seven hospitals. Hartford HealthCare’s Kathleen Race, senior director of the Care Logistics Center, joined News 8 to explain the center’s work and how it has evolved over the years.
Former Canaan resident trades the woods of the Northwest Corner for the grasslands of East Africa.
Dr. Daniel Peppe, a North Canaan Elementary School and Hotchkiss alum, is a professor of Geosciences at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. When he is not teaching both intro and graduate level courses, he can be found conducting research across the globe. In short, his work focuses on the evolutionary processes of plants and animals in response to climate change. Having conducted fieldwork in the U.S. Midwest, Australia and Abu Dhabi, Peppe has settled for Eastern Africa.
Prospect man accused of paying his illegal barber business with stolen credit card
PROSPECT, Conn. (WTNH) — Officials with the Connecticut State Police say a Prospect man is facing charges after allegedly using another person’s credit card to pay himself through an illegal barber business. 29-year-old Corey Lister of Prospect was charged with two counts of sixth-degree larceny, two counts of sixth-degree criminal attempt to commit larceny, and […]
Thanks to LaBonne’s Market, I Now Know What a Skimmer Looks Like
It's Skimmer-Mania in Connecticut today, with every news and media outlet breathlessly reporting another area store in which your financial data may have been skimmed. Do you know what a credit card skimmer device looks like? I do, thanks to LaBonne's Market - Prospect. Over the past two weeks there...
ID Released For Woman Shot, Killed Near Amtrak Station In Meriden As 2 Suspects Remain At Large
The incident occurred in New Haven County on Monday, July 22, near the Amtrak station in Meriden. Lt. Darrin McKay of the Meriden Police said the victim has been identified as 28-year-old Beth Ndwiga of Meriden. "First off, we here at the Meriden Police Department wish to express our sincerest...
Access to Washington Park in Meriden limited due to littering and vandalism
MERIDEN, CT (WFSB) - The city of Meriden is limiting access to Washington Park following several reports of excessive littering and vandalism. City leaders say they’ll be turning off the lights this week at the basketball and pickleball courts due to the issues. The basketball court was recently renovated...
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