A former Manchester man - who a judge said grew up in a "sexually dysfunctional" family - was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a young girl from the time she was 9 until she was 16.
A year after finding a Middletown man mortally injured and unresponsive after being struck by car in a motel parking lot, police on Saturday arrested the man's girlfriend.
The town has been named one of the top digital communities in the nation, in large part because of the wide range of online services that connect residents to local government.
Police are looking for two men who held up a gas station at gunpoint Sunday. Police said the two men entered the Getty Gas Station at 886 Hartford Road at about 6:40 p.m. and demanded money from the cash register.
The Connecticut Army National Guard is deploying 700 soldiers this weekend to the Middle East in the largest single deployment of its troops since the Korean War.
Health Notes Submitted by Rosemary Martocchio, Eastern Connecticut Health Network, on 2009-11-13.   Johanna Heidtman, MMH Auxiliary Scholarship chairwoman, accepts a $15,000 donation from Auxiliary President Harriet Haslett for the Auxiliary's traditional scholarship fund.
Lured by kin who had crossed the sea before them and the promise of a better life, textile workers from Northern Ireland flowed into this silk-making center from about 1890 to 1930.
Health Notes Submitted by Amy Lantaigne, Eastern Connecticut Health Network, on 2009-11-13.   Eastern Connecticut Health Network's new, state-of-the-art cancer center, expected to be completed by the summer of 2010, will be named in honor of the late John A. DeQuattro.
Police charged two men with gun crimes over the weekend. About 2 a.m. Sunday, witnesses contacted police and reported seeing a man brandishing a sawed-off shotgun.