• west haven March 14, 2024 1:14 pm

    Fifteen students taken to hospital after school bus crash in Connecticut

    Fifteen students have been taken to Yale New Haven Hospital after a school bus crash in West Haven on Thursday morning. Police said the injuries appear to be minor. A school bus transporting students to the Jepson Magnet School in New Haven and a truck with a trailer collided in the area of Campbell Street and Terrace Avenue just before…

  • west haven March 9, 2024 2:44 pm

    Restaurant owner arrested in connection to deadly shooting in West Haven, Conn.

    A restaurant owner has been arrested in connection to a deadly shooting in West Haven last November. Officers received multiple 911 calls reporting a fight in a parking lot of the Tropical Caribbean Restaurant on Campbell Avenue shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. Once in the area, police said they found a man who had been shot….

  • west haven March 4, 2024 3:00 pm

    Testimony begins in manslaughter trial of Connecticut state trooper Brian North

    A Connecticut state trooper who killed a 19-year-old man while firing seven gunshots into a stopped car in 2020 is on trial for manslaughter. Testimony began Monday in the trial of Trooper Brian North. North has pleaded not guilty to first-degree manslaughter with a firearm in the death of Mubarak Soulemane in West Haven. A six-person jury is tentatively scheduled…

  • west haven February 26, 2024 5:00 pm

    2 men, 2 women killed in wrong-way crash in West Haven, Conn. identified

    Connecticut State Police have identified the four people who were killed in a crash involving a wrong-way driver on Interstate 95 South in West Haven on Sunday. State police said 26-year-old Kyle Bulkley, of New Haven, was driving a Chevrolet Silverado northbound in the southbound lanes of the highway around 1:20 a.m. when he collided with a Nissan Altima head-on…

  • west haven February 26, 2024 7:03 am

    4 dead, 2 injured in crash involving wrong-way driver in Conn.

    Update: State police have identified the two men and two women who died after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 95 in West Haven early Sunday morning. Four people have died and two others have life-threatening injuries after a crash involving a wrong-way driver on Interstate 95 South in West Haven on Sunday morning. State police said a Chevrolet Silverado was…

  • west haven December 6, 2023 4:52 pm

    West Haven High School in Conn. announces sudden death of student

    West Haven Public Schools announced Tuesday that a beloved high school student has died. The school district called the sophomore’s passing unexpected and tragic. He was a member of the varsity football team, which is set to play for the Class LL championship this weekend. The school’s football head coach has identified the student as Christopher Fidalgo-Pugh. “He was...

  • west haven December 5, 2023 11:18 am

    Officials release new information on Connecticut shooting that injured officer and killed man

    The Office of the Inspector General is investigating after a man shot a police officer in West Haven and police fired back, killing the man last week, and has released a preliminary report on that investigation. The shooting happened when police responded to an apartment on Terrace Avenue in West Haven just before 2 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 1 to…

  • west haven December 1, 2023 6:23 pm

    Man dead, officer injured after shooting in West Haven, Conn.: police

    A man is dead after he shot a police officer in the leg and police returned fire and shot him in West Haven on Friday morning, according to police. West Haven police officers responded to an apartment building on Terrace Avenue to investigate a domestic violence complaint at 1:55 a.m. and a man shot an officer in his leg, police…

  • west haven May 31, 2023 5:13 pm

    Former Conn. State Lawmaker Sentenced to More Than 2 Years for Theft of COVID-19 Aid

    A former Connecticut state representative has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for stealing more than $1.2 million from the city of West Haven — most of it in federal coronavirus-related aid — and using a good chunk of it to fuel his gambling addiction, according to federal officials. Michael DiMassa, 32, a West Haven Democrat, was sentenced Wednesday…

  • west haven May 2, 2023 8:05 am

    Conn. State Trooper Brian North Due in Court in Connection With 2020 Death of Teen

    A Connecticut State Police trooper is due in court Tuesday for a pre-trial hearing in connection with the 2020 shooting death of a teenager in West Haven after a chase. Trooper Brian North was charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of 19-year-old Mubarak Soulemane after a police chase that ended in West Haven on Jan. 15, 2020 and…

  • Waterbury February 23, 2023 4:58 pm

    Conn. Attorney General Begins Formal Investigation After Stone Academy Closure

    It was just over a week ago when Stone Academy announced it would be closing all three campuses across the state after more than 150 years of operation and Attorney General William Tong said Thursday that his office is starting a formal investigation into the nursing school under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act. After announcing the closure, a Stone…

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