Connecticut

First lady Jill Biden will be in New England this week for a fundraiser and an event about research on women’s health, the White House said Sunday. Biden will travel to to Connecticut, then Massachusetts, on Tuesday, and leave Wednesday afternoon, according to a news release from her office. Biden will arrive at Tweed New Haven Regional Airpo...

More than a dozen cows were dead when a cattle truck rolled over on a ramp on Interstate 84 in Newtown, Connecticut, early Thursday morning, authorities said. State troopers responded to the exit 10 off-ramp on I-84 West around 3:26 a.m. after the tractor-trailer rolled over. It was carrying 44 cows. A state veterinarian was called and a decision w...

A dog from Massachusetts died in the care of a Connecticut dog trainer, who misled the animal’s owner and officers investigating what happened, police said Tuesday. Saying the trainer was conducting a dog training scam, police in North Reading, Massachusetts, are seeking to charge the woman with felony counts of larceny and misleading a polic...

Three people have been arrested on sex trafficking charges for allegedly coercing five women into prostitution throughout New England and in New York and New Jersey, federal officials said Friday. The trio were arrested Wednesday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts, over allegations dating back to 2012-2016. Jermall And...

A woman who crash-landed her 79-year-old husband’s plane on Martha’s Vineyard last month reported that he became incapacitated behind the controls, a month after his Federal Aviation Administration medical certificate had been updated, investigators said Wednesday. Randolph Bonnist, of Norwalk, Connecticut, previously had to provide extensive...

The pilot of a small plane that crashed, with a passenger at the controls, on Martha’s Vineyard this weekend has died, authorities said Friday. Randolph Bonnist, a 79-year-old from Norwalk, Connecticut, died at Boston Medical Center Thursday night, according to the Cape and Island District Attorney’s Office. Authorities have previously ...

Certain classes of driver’s licenses from five states, including three in New England, are no longer valid in Florida under a new immigration law.

A construction company hired by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is under fire after a Confederate flag was seen openly hanging off equipment along busy Route 2 in Fitchburg. NBC10 Boston was sent video from Sunday night, taken by a cellphone in a car, showing the flag. MassDOT confirms it was displayed on a truck from Garrity Asphalt...

The Connecticut Sun underwent some notable changes in the offseason after falling short in the 2022 WNBA Finals. Play-by-play commentator Brendan Glasheen shared his thoughts on this year’s group during NBC Sports Boston’s WNBA season preview.

The 2023 WNBA season is almost here, and the Connecticut Sun are motivated to return to the playoffs for the eighth consecutive year. Here’s the full TV schedule for all of the Sun’s games.

The Connecticut Sun and NBC Sports Boston announced today a partnership to televise 31 Sun games on NBC Sports Boston during the 2023 season. The two-year deal makes NBC Sports Boston the viewing home of all New England’s premier professional basketball. “All of us at NBC Sports Boston are excited to be the home of the Connecticut Sun. This p...

A man already in jail in the killing of a man found in a burning car in Hartford is pleading guilty to killing three other people, all in Springfield, Massachusetts, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Calvin Roberson is set to plead guilty to manslaughter for the 2006 death of a woman working at a nail salon, a man found shot in the…

Police in Hartford, Connecticut, have arrested a man who is suspected in the crash last year that killed a Trinity College student and injured two others. The crash happened near the campus in Hartford on a Thursday night, March 31. Twenty-year-old Jillian Hegarty, of Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, died from injuries, a 19-year-old Trinity student was l...