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A historic West Hartford country club celebrating its centennial year is destroyed after two fires in two days. Firefighters arrived to the Wampanoag Country Club just after 2:20 a.m. on Sunday and found heavy fire coming through the roof of the same building that had been on fire just 24 hours earlier on Saturday morning. According to fire officials, the…

Two people have been arrested in connection to a shooting investigation that briefly closed a gas station in West Hartford on Wednesday morning. This investigation was at the Shell gas station on South Quaker Lane and Park Road around 5:30 a.m. According to police, two arrests have been made in connection to the incident. A man and woman at the…

A pro-Palestine rally led to vandalism in West Hartford Center on Sunday. According to police, about 150 people participated in the rally that began at West Hartford Town Hall at 50 South Main Street. The group then moved through parts of West Hartford Center and Blue Back Square, police said. Some of the protestors posted signs at 65 LaSalle Road…

An 80-year-old man has died after he was hit by a car on Albany Avenue in West Hartford Saturday night, police said. Police have identified the man who died as David Goldfarb, 80, of West Hartford. He was taken to the hospital and was later pronounced dead. The car and driver involved in the crash stayed at the scene. The…

Parents and community members are calling for action amid accusations that a teacher used a racial slur in a classroom in West Hartford. The school board met at West Hartford Town Hall on Tuesday and while the issue was not on the agenda, community members still wanted to send a message. “My questions is when will it stop? Because it…

Two people are dead, including a 2-year-old child, after a serious multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 84 East in West Hartford Wednesday night, according to Connecticut State Police. The crash happened just after 8 p.m. near Exit 44. According to state police, a woman driving on I-84 West lost control of her car and went across the median and into the…

The family of a man shot and killed by a West Hartford police officer last week held a news conference Monday afternoon to address the shooting and said they are devastated. Attorneys representing the family of Mike Alexander-Garcia held a news conference with the family at 2 p.m. During the news conference, the family said Alexander-Garcia struggled with addiction, but…

A person has died after a shooting involving a police officer in West Hartford on Tuesday night. Officers were called to an investigation on New Britain Avenue near New Park Avenue around 5 p.m. Police later said the investigation was related to a shooting involving a West Hartford officer. There were damaged vehicles visible at the scene Tuesday night. According…

A West Hartford man has been indicted on charges in connection to a multi-state scheme defrauding Home Depot of nearly $300,000. The U.S. Department of Justice said 26-year-old Alexandre Henrique Costa-Mota faces charges including conspiracy and wire fraud. Officials say he’s accused of defrauding Home Depot of approximately $297,332 in eight states. Court documents say that between June 2021 to…

A man from New Britain has died after he crashed into the concrete barrier on Interstate 84 west in West Hartford on Sunday morning. State police said 22-year-old Luis Daniel Colon, of New Britain, was traveling in the left shoulder on I-84 west near exit 40 when he lost control of the vehicle around 6:30 a.m. When Colon lost control,…

One of the biggest spectacles in all of sports is happening Saturday. It’s the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby and one West Hartford businessman hopes to be the winning owner, or at least one of them. Mike Gualtieri is a minority owner of the horse, Confidence Game. It is one of the 20 horses this weekend that will be...

The West Hartford Rotary Club is offering a reward for information leading to the conviction and arrest of whoever killed an 89-year-old woman in a December hit-and-run crash. The police department said 89-year-old Eugenia Yurovsky was struck and killed in the area of Boulevard and Whiting Lane while walking on Dec. 20, 2022. The Rotary Club of West Hartford is…

A man from West Hartford was killed during an apparent terror attack in the occupied West Bank in Israel, according to the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford. The U.S. ambassador to Israel confirmed to NBC News that a U.S. citizen was killed in the Monday attack. The Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford identified that person as 26-year-old Elan Ganeles....

A West Hartford man was killed in an avalanche in Washington state on Sunday that swept climbers 500 feet down the Northeast Couloir of Colchuck Peak, according to authorities. The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office in Washington state said six people were climbing Colchuck Peak when an avalanche occurred near Colchuck Lake and three of the six climbers were killed. The…

A man who is accused of assaulting several people, including a police officer and an elderly woman, in the parking lot of a grocery store in West Hartford Sunday afternoon after using PCP was arrested after good Samaritans came forward to assist law enforcement. Police said officers responded to the Price Rite supermarket at 983 New Britain Ave. at 12:39…

Police released the identities Monday of three people who were killed in a crash in West Hartford Christmas morning. The three died in a two-car crash on Simsbury Road near Timberwood Road just before 7 a.m. Sunday. Police identified the victims as 17-year-old Raheim Dantae Barry Nelson, 52-year-old Faye Dawson-Judkins, and 55-year-old Novelette Bailey. All of the victims were from…

Three people were killed in a crash in West Hartford on Christmas morning, according to police. The two-car crash happened around 6:50 a.m. on Simsbury Road near Timberwood Road. Police and firefighters arrived and found two people dead at the scene, police said. A third person was rushed to the hospital but later died. Simsbury Road was closed from Bloomfield…

A bear has made itself right at home inside a hole in a tree not far from the center of West Hartford and it does not seem to want to leave. Martha Guidry, of West Hartford, said the bear has been in the tree for about six weeks. “Every once in a while, he pokes his head out and says…

One person was killed in a major crash that closed Interstate 84 West on the Hartford and West Hartford line Monday morning. Troopers were advised of a crash involving a CT Transit bus and multiple other vehicles on I-84 west near exit 44 shortly before 5 a.m. According to state police, two tractor-trailers, a CT Transit bus, a postal truck…

West Hartford police have charged a man in connection with in a shooting on the University of Saint Joseph campus early Friday morning and a crash on Albany Avenue and they released more information Monday about the investigation. Police said the altercation started when three people got into an argument about a relationship, gunshots were fired, there was a crash…