Norwalk

Police have arrested a man who is accused of trying to kidnap a child in Norwalk, then attempting to buy the child. Just before 5:30 p.m. Sunday, officers responded to reports of a man trying to take the child out of a parked vehicle. The woman told police that the child was sitting in the backseat and she had unbuckled…

Stew Leonard Sr., the founder of Connecticut-based grocery chain Stew Leonard’s, has died at the age of 93, according to the company. Leonard died Wednesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City after a brief illness, the company said in a news release. There will be a public wake on Monday, May 1, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m….

A Norwalk man took videos of himself driving more than 130 miles per hour and posted them on social media, according to state police. State police said they learned on March 28 that there were videos on Instagram and Facebook of a Chevrolet going around 133 miles per hour on Route 7 in Norwalk, which has a speed limit of…

A staff member at a school in Norwalk has been arrested and is accused of putting multiple students in a chokehold last month including one who lost consciousness. Norwalk Public Schools contacted police about an incident on February 24 where investigators said a staff member had made a student go unconscious at Brookside Elementary School. According to police, Stefanie Sanabria,…

Route 7 north and part of both sides of Interstate 95 in Norwalk are back open following a homicide investigation on Saturday. Troopers were called to a one-car crash on Route 7 north near exit 2 around 3:19 a.m. When state police arrived, they said they found a man in the driver’s seat of the vehicle. He was pronounced dead…

Nine people are displaced after a fire at a multi-family home in Norwalk on Tuesday. Firefighters were called to the home on Lexington Avenue around 10:11 p.m. According to investigators, the fire started in the bedroom of the multi-family home and quickly spread to the floors above. The nine people who were home at the time of the fire were…