Norwich police are looking for the driver in a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a pedestrian Sunday. Police said a vehicle struck the victim in the area of 281 Norwich Avenue around 6:20 p.m. Sunday. The victim suffered a serious leg injury and several broken bones. Investigators said the driver fled the scene. The victim could not provide a description…

Connecticut State Police have issued a Silver Alert for a 7-year-old boy who is missing from Norwich on Saturday. Troopers said Jaziel Soto has been missing since Friday. It’s unclear what he was wearing when he was last seen. He is 4 feet tall and weighs 56 pounds with black hair and brown eyes, authorities added. If you see him,…

The cause of a fire at a home in the Yantic section of Norwich on Sunday is under investigation.

The mayor of Burlington, Vermont, joined by a coalition of environmental and business leaders, is proposing a statewide revenue-neutral carbon pollution fee that they say would help cut emissions by 37 percent by 2040. Mayor Miro Weinberger’s proposal was shared Friday at the Renewable Energy Vermont Conference near Burlington.

The former secretary of the Vermont Agency of Education says she’s running for governor as a Democrat.

The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that a Haitian immigrant who was convicted of killing a Connecticut woman in 2015 should get a new trial.

A woman suing Harvard University over 19th-century images of slaves she says were her ancestors received the backing Thursday of dozens of descendants of the professor who commissioned the images in his attempt to prove blacks were inferior to whites. Forty-three of professor Louis Agassiz’s descendants, including several with degrees from Harvard, delivered a letter to the Ivy league school’s...

A woman suing Harvard University over 19th-century images of slaves she says were her ancestors received the backing Thursday of dozens of descendants of the professor who commissioned the images in his attempt to prove blacks were inferior to whites. Forty-three of professor Louis Agassiz’s descendants, including several with degrees from Harvard, delivered a letter to the Ivy league school’s...

A Vermont-based flour company is voluntarily recalling some bags of flour due to potential E. coli contamination. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration posted on its website a statement from King Arthur Flour saying the company is recalling more than 14,000 cases of 5-pound unbleached all-purpose flour. The company said Thursday that to date no illness had been reported in...

Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa appeared to instruct his team to allow an opponent to score an uncontested goal amid extraordinary incidents in a key second-tier match in England on Sunday. Leeds scored the opening goal against Aston Villa in its League Championship game while Villa had a man down injured. It sparked a series of on-field melees, during which Villa...

New numbers from AAA show as of Monday the national gas price average is at $2.74, a $0.28 increase over the last month and $0.08 more than the same time last year.

Harvard University has “shamelessly” turned a profit from photos of two 19th-century slaves while ignoring requests to turn the photos over to the slaves’ descendants, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Connecticut, is suing the Ivy League school for “wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation” of images she says depict two of her ancestors. Her suit, filed...

A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty to killing his wife just three weeks after their wedding nearly a decade ago and will serve 25 years in prison.

A Vermont woman is telling her dramatic story of surviving a battle with a rabid bobcat. Jenn Gaudette of Wilder was one of three people scratched and bitten by a bobcat this week, which was put down by a Vermont Fish & Wildlife game warden Wednesday.

A Vermont woman, who was one of three people scatched and bitten by a bobcat this week, is telling her dramatic story of surviving.

A 26-year-old Pawcatuck woman has died after a hit-and-run crash in North Stonington Tuesday night, according to Connecticut State Police, and they said they have interviewed a person of interest.

The city of Norwich is offering a tax break for military families who have lost a child or a spouse while serving in the Armed Forces.

A Hartford man has died in a rollover crash on Interstate 91.

Police in Norwich are investigating alleged sexual assaults involving a former Norwich Free Academy employee and a student or students who attended the school.

A 22-year-old New York woman is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy in Plainfield and Norwich and has been arrested in Plainfield.