Heads up: These CT road projects could slow you down

One project planned for I-95 in Norwalk could wake some nearby residents at night, and another on I-84 in Newtown will close an exit. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

National Weather Service issues frost advisory for most of CT

Warmed by the 66-degree water temperature of Long Island Sound, the southwest shoreline of Connecticut is the only area not included in the frost advisory. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Rizzuto’s Restaurant in Blue Back Square closing temporarily as weather ends outdoor dining

Rizzuto’s Restaurant in West Hartford’s Blue Back Square, which reopened in August, announced this week that the restaurant will close again temporarily, citing the loss of outdoor dining and the inability to use its popular bar space. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

As infection rates rise and winter approaches, Connecticut moves one step closer to a distribution plan for a COVID-19 vaccine

The vaccine advisory group will help develop a plan that will allow the state to quickly distribute the COVID-19 vaccine once it’s available. If the plan fails and vaccination is delayed, people will contract and die of the disease unnecessarily. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

The Place 2 Be’s downtown Hartford location is made for Instagram. Here’s a look inside the new restaurant

The new location of The Place 2 Be, the breakfast, brunch and lunch restaurant that opened in early October at 5 Constitution Plaza in the former Spectra Wired space, is an Instagrammer’s paradise. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Seymour cancels its Halloween events, urges parents to keep kids safe

Seymour Deputy First Selectman Annmarie Drugonis said the town has canceled its annual Halloween events. She urges families be cautious if going out. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

NWS: Heavy rain followed by cooler temperatures

A chilly weekend is expected with patchy frost likely Sunday morning. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Police: Shelton man stole gun, loaded magazines from parked car

A city man faces charges after police say he burglarized a parked car, taking a gun and several loaded magazines. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

As panhandling grows, Connecticut towns look for answers

West Hartford, Bristol, Newington, New Britain, Glastonbury, Enfield and Meriden are just a few of the Connecticut communities that have been looking for new ways since 2018 to deal with panhandling. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Energy assistance providers brace for high demand amid Connecticut’s pandemic-induced economic decline

Energy assistance providers expecting a busy winter. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Suburban dad who fueled his drug habit by selling dozens of guns to violent Hartford drug dealers sentenced to 46 months in prison

For six months last year – until he was caught – Klosek fed his drug habit by using his pistol permit to buy dozens of cheap handguns that he in turn sold to some of the city’s most notorious drug dealers, who used them as armament in the turf wars that periodically erupt in urban…

Feds: CT man sentenced for selling guns to feed drug habit

An Enfield resident who put 47 guns on the streets to pay for his drug addiction will spend almost four years in prison, officials said. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Enjoy this Indian summer-like day before rain arrives

According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the criteria for a true Indian summer days are hazy or smoky skies, there is no wind, the barometer is standing high, and the nights are clear and chilly. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Bridgeport PD: 1 person seriously wounded in stabbing

One person was seriously wounded in a stabbing in the city early Thursday, police said. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

A COVID-19 outbreak at neighboring assisted living facilities in Avon has left one dead and upwards of 50 infected

Health officials believe the outbreak started with a resident at The Residence at Brookside in late September and may have spread to the Avon Health Care by way of health care workers employed at both facilities. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Daily coronavirus updates: Connecticut reports highest positivity rate since June; hospitalizations also increase

On Tuesday, the state;s daily positivity rate had jumped to 2.4% — after 320 COVID-19 cases were identified out of a total of 13,398 tests. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Lamont to ‘rethink’ COVID-19 travel advisory, which is now larger than ever

Connecticut added Ohio, Michigan and Virginia to its COVID-19 travel advisory Tuesday, making 36 states from which travel is now restricted — the most at a time since the state implemented its advisory in June. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Stratford PD: $1,000 taken during armed bank robbery

Two suspects fled with $1,000 from Chase Bank during an armed robbery Tuesday afternoon, according to police. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

Aquarion: Stop watering lawn as CT drought continues

Aquarion Water Company has announced an irrigation ban for Darien, Greenwich, New Canaan, Stamford and Westport. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

FD: Beer truck caught fire after collision on I-95 in Stratford

A stretch of I-95 north in Stratford remains closed with traffic being detoured around the site by the left shoulder. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

‘COVID closes a lot of doors’: Hartford Public Library, Hispanic Health Council raising awareness of domestic violence crisis during pandemic

Hartford Public Library and Hispanic Health Council are holding their third annual Domestic Violence Awareness Walk in Hartford on Oct. 22. The issue of domestic violence is even more urgent than in previous years, the event’s organizer said, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

After violent weekend in Hartford, police union leader blames recent spike in shootings on new Connecticut police reform law

The violent weekend further extends a surge in gunshot victims since the beginning of September — a period that has seen nearly triple the number of shootings with injuries over any of the previous three years, police data show. Top Featured Tags: – Connecticut News Press Release Distribution Service

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