TopFeatured.com

TheaterWorks Hartford’s New Works Festival returns with four readings of new plays. Three are streaming May 16-22 online while the fourth is part of a day of live events at the theater May 21. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Ansonia resumed in-person aldermen meetings in April, but has decided to go back to virtual meetings. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Mayor David Cassetti previously said he would veto any budget that increased the mill rate. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The council is expected Monday to try and use a state law to extend the time it has to approve a municipal budget. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Stratford police say a recent robbery arrest illustrates the dangers of buying and selling items privately after online posts. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

About 100 firefighters have been battling wind-driven brush fires that consumed almost 300 acres of woods and open land in Middletown Tuesday and Wednesday. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

“I think that any candidate for governor has got to speak up and let us know where you stand,” Lamont said at a ceremonial signing of the bill outside the Capitol. “What have I heard from the Republican candidate for governor? Crickets.” Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A Bridgeport man has been charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, illegal possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle among other offenses, police said. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A Bridgeport official said no one was injured in the Main Street blaze, which was the second within an hour in the city early Wednesday morning. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A Bridgeport official said crews found “heavy fire” coming from the second floor of the building early Wednesday morning. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A New London man has been charged with the hours-long beating of a man who was later pronounced dead at his home in Chaplin, state police said Tuesday. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Meanwhile, Ford’s heavy investment in electric vehicles — its own and others — has come at a cost. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A suspect in “swatting” calls to police in Connecticut and other states told 911 dispatchers that he had killed his mother, was about to kill his two sisters and would gun down any officers who came to the scene, Windsor Locks police said. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Police identified him as 38-year-old Jose Alicea, of Bridgeport. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A man was shot in the chest on Washington Terrace, while a juvenile boy was shot in the eye with a BB gun on Rosedale Street, according to a city official. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

After a car crash, a Bridgeport man was accused of yelling a racial slur at a Hispanic man and spitting on his face. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Hartford police alerted the public that heavy traffic is expected downtown Wednesday night due to multiple events, including a Yard Goats baseball game at Dunkin Donuts Park and a Journey concert at the XL Center. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Dabate, who is charged with murder in his wife’s death, staging a crime scene and lying to police more than six years ago, took the stand last week and stuck fervently to his story that a masked, camouflage-wearing intruder with a Vin Diesel-like voice broke into his house and killed his wife. Top Featured Tags:…

Across the country, hospital mergers are changing the ways in which people access health care. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The mayor responded to comments from Constance Vickers, who on Wednesday left her job as his liaison with state lawmakers at the Capitol in Hartford, and from City Council President Aidee Nieves. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

It’ll be several months before the sale gets final approval from all interested parties. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Cyrenius “Cy” Menard, 19, died in a car accident in New Jersey on Friday. Continue Reading at CTPost.com here Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service