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A Nepali Sherpa broke her own record as the most successful female climber of Mount Everest by reaching the summit of the world’s highest peak Thursday.

Police are investigating after they said a woman was carjacked while sitting in the parking lot of an auto shop in West Hartford on Sunday morning. Officers received a report that a 71-year-old woman had been carjacked in front of 54 Cody St. shortly before 11:30 a.m. According to investigators, the woman reported that she was dropping off her vehicle…

State police responded to multiple tractor-trailer accidents on Connecticut highways early Saturday as heavy snow fell across the state. A tractor-trailer rolled over on I-95 North in East Lyme near Exit 74 around 2:30 a.m. The highway was shut down for about an hour as crews worked to clear the truck. A truck crash closed I-84 West near Exit 40…

Mothers United Against Violence led a prayer vigil for 22-year-old Kendall Fair Saturday afternoon. The man, from West Hartford, was killed on Tuesday in a shootout in Hartford that happened at the intersection of Mather Street and Albany Avenue. Two other men were also shot and are expected to be okay. Fair’s family said they’ve felt the support through...

A father has been charged in connection to the death of his infant after the child reportedly fell in West Hartford and later died. Officers were called to a home in West Hartford on Friday around 11:20 p.m. When police arrived, they said it was reported that an infant sustained injuries from a fall while in the care of a…

An investigation has revealed multiple credible allegations of sexual and physical abuse by former faculty and staff spanning decades at a school for deaf children in Connecticut, school officials said Friday. The American School for the Deaf in West Hartford released the findings of the investigation one year after it says it learned of allegations from alumni of “inappropriate physical conduct”...

The West Hartford school board is officially throwing its support behind later school start times. The Board of Education voted five to one to back a resolution that calls for state lawmakers to require middle and high schools statewide to start at 8:30 a.m. or later. That caused a bit of a celebration for those who have been working for…

Back in 2016, a political gadfly named Mark Stewart Greenstein jumped into the Connecticut River to attract attention to his entry in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, and now he’s the first candidate to sign up for the 2020 contest.

A 15-year-old girl who was reported missing from West Hartford on Friday night and was in need of immediate medical treatment has been found safe.

A 12-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of his sister after he allegedly stabbed her and their mother at their West Hartford home Monday, according to West Hartford police.

A girl has died, her mother is in the hospital, and police said the girl’s brother is accused of stabbing both of them in West Hartford Monday.

A West Hartford police officer on the lookout for burglars arrested a suspect when the man walked up to an unmarked police cruiser and tried to get in, according to police.

Town officials in West Hartford agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit that alleged a sexual assault in a middle school locker room in 2013 and claimed a pattern of negligence within the district.

James Bulger has been moved out of Massachusetts to a federal lock-up in Brooklyn, NY, according to the website of the Federal Bureau of Prisons