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CT Couple Killed In PA Hit-Run; Driver Pleads Guilty To Homicide: DA
A Connecticut couple visiting friends in Pennsylvania was killed in a high-speed hit-and-run crash, and the driver has pleaded guilty to their deaths, authorities said.
John Thomas Wadlinger Jr., 32, of Bensalem, admitted guilt to 20 charges, including two counts each of homicide by vehicle while DUI and homicide by vehicle, before Common Pleas Judge C. Theodore Fritsch Jr. on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Sentencing has been deferred for 60 days while a pre-sentence investigation is completed, court officials said.
Rebecca Whiddon, 33, and her husband Richard Whiddon, 37, both of Brooklyn, CT, …
Double-Fatal CT Crash: 18-Year-Old Charged With Manslaughter, More, Police Say
A man faces manslaughter charges and more after he allegedly drove a car drunk, leading to a crash that killed two other teenagers.
Connecticut State Police arrested 18-year-old Nicholas Johnson on Thursday, June 20, nearly a year after the Windham County incident took place in the town of Brooklyn.
On June 25, 2023, Johnson (a Moosup resident who was 17 at the time) was reportedly driving a Toyota Prius southwest on Allen Hill Road when, at the intersection of Wauregan Road, he ran a stop sign and turned left, causing the car to spin out just before 4 a.m., slamming into a tree before sl…
Second Teen Dies A Week After Violent CT Crash Kills 15-Year-Old Girl
A second Connecticut teen has died from injuries suffered in a crash that also killed a 15-year-old girl last month.
The crash took place around 4:40 a.m. Sunday, June 25 in Windham County on Allen Hill Road near Route 205 in the small town of Brooklyn.
On Thursday, July 6, Connecticut State Police confirmed that a second passenger, 17-year-old Bryce Burditt, who attended Plainfield High School had died from his injuries.
The crash, which occurred when a 2004 Toyota Prius, with five occupants, slammed into a tree before going down an embankment, also killed passenger Chanelle Edwards,…
Fatal Crash: 15-Year-Old CT Girl ID'd As Victim, 4 Others Hospitalized After Car Hits Tree
A girl was killed and four other young people were hospitalized after an overnight crash on a Connecticut roadway.
It happened around 4:40 a.m. Sunday, June 25 in Windham County on Allen Hill Road near Route 205 in the small town of Brooklyn.
A 2004 Toyota Prius, with five occupants, slammed into a tree before going down an embankment, according to Connecticut State Police.
One of the passengers, Chanelle Edwards, age 15, of Griswold, was rushed to Day Kimbal Hospital in Putnam and pronounced dead.
Another passenger, was brought to Hartford Hospital in critical condition.
The t…
Head-On Crash: 1 Killed, 1 Injured In CT
A Connecticut man was killed after colliding head-on with another vehicle on a busy roadway.
The crash took place in Windham County on Route 6 (Providence Road) around 8 p.m., Monday, May 29 in the small town of Brooklyn.
According to Connecticut State Police, Joseph Kowal, age 81, of Dayville (a hamlet in the town of Killingly) was driving a 2001 Chrysler Sebring east on Route 6 at the intersection of Day Street when he collided head-on with a 2021 Hyundai Palisade.
Kowal was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Palisade, identified as David Meade, age 62, of Brooklyn, wa…
ID Released For Third Victim Found Dead Along With 2 Others In CT Home
State police have identified a third Massachusetts resident found dead inside a northern Connecticut home.
The three people, including a child, were found in Windham County in the small town of Brooklyn around 8:27 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 14, said Connecticut State Police.
Two had been identified as Lury M. Pizarro, age 33, and Emanual M. Pizarro, age 3, both of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Jose A. Perez, age 32, also of Worcester, was identified on Friday, Feb. 17.
Although the state police have not released much information on the case and say the investigation remains ongoing, the state…
IDs Released For 2 Of 3 Found Dead In CT Home
State Police have identified two of three people found dead inside a northern Connecticut home as being Massachusetts residents.
The three, including a child, were found in Windham County in the town of Brooklyn around 8:27 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 14, said Connecticut State Police.
The two have been identified as Lury M. Pizarro, age 33, and Emanual M. Pizarro, age 3, both of Worcester. The third person has not been identified pending notification of next of kin, state police said.
Earlier report: Update: Child Among 3 Found Dead In CT Home, State Police Say
Police responded t…
Henri: Here's How Many CT Residents Are Now Without Power
Thousands in Connecticut are without power following the round of storms that rolled through the region, though the damage was not as bad as expected.
As late Monday morning, Aug. 23, more than 8,000 of Eversource’s 1.28 million customers in the state are reporting outages.
United Illuminating is working to repair seven active outages impacting more than 1,100 of the company’s customers.
The most outages are being reported in:
Pomfret (708),
Woodstock (659),
Thompson (628),
Brooklyn (595),
Plainfield (536),
Canterbury (528),
Town of Fairfield (454)
P…
Retired CT State Trooper Dies Unexpectedly At Age 50
A longtime retired Connecticut State Trooper has died unexpectedly.
Trooper First Class Patrick Dragon, 50, of Brooklyn, Connecticut, died on Saturday, Jan. 2, at Hartford Hospital, said the Connecticut State Police.
A cause of death has not been released to date.
Dragon, a member of the 107th Training Troop entered the State Police Training Academy on January 9, 1998.
Upon graduation, he served as a patrol trooper at Troop D in Danielson, as a resident trooper in the town of Sterling, as a detective in the Eastern District Major Crime Squad, and as a detective in the Fire and…
Covid-19 - 100 Connecticut Communities On "Red" List - Local Rates, Trends
The number of “red" communities in Connecticut has reached 100, according to the most recent state data, Thursday, Nov. 12.
Infection rates have been rising in Connecticut dramatically. There are now 100 cities and towns with the highest daily averages of newly reported COVID-19 cases.
Last week, Thursday, Nov. 5, there were 67 red communities.
And the week before that, Oct. 29, there were 30.
Scroll down for town-specific data.
Red communities are so-called due to the state’s color-coded map of average daily COVID-19 cases. Red communities are reporting 4-15 or more cases per 100,000 re…
Storm Knocks Out Power To Thousands In Connecticut
The latest storm to roll through the region left thousands in Connecticut without power overnight.
Wind gusts and rain downed trees, utility poles, and wires overnight, leaving more than 25,000 Connecticut residents in the dark as Eversource and United Illuminating crews worked through the night to restore power to customers.
As of 9:20 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30, Eversource was still reporting that 16,289 of its 1,281,966 customers were still without power, while UI crews were working on 11 reported outages that were impacting 144 customers.
At the peak of the storm, more than 25,000 wer…
Candidate Accused of Domestic Violence, Dropped Out Of Race, May Still Win GOP Nomination
Early voting results indicate that a man who was arrested and then dropped out of the primary election for Congressional Second District could win the nomination.
As of Wednesday, Aug. 12, morning, Republican Thomas Gilmer, who had dropped out of the race on Monday, Aug. 10, was leading Justin Anderson by just a handful of votes:
Gilmer: 7,875
Anderson: 7,797
Gilmer, 29, of Madison, was arrested Monday, Aug. 10, and charged with first-degree unlawful restraint and second-degree strangulation, police said.
The Connecticut GOP confirmed Aug. 11 that Gilmer had been arrested and drop…
Man Who Cashed More Than $60,000 In Stolen Postal Money Orders Sentenced
A Connecticut man with a criminal history will spend time in prison after conspiring with his wife to steal more than 150 U.S. Postal money orders and cashing more than $60,000.
James Lebel, formerly of the township of Brooklyn in Windham County, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud late last year.
Label, 40, and his wife, Michelle Barbeau, a USPS employee at the Wauregan Post Office in Plainfield conspired to take 179 blank money orders and imprinted them with various den…
