New Canaan Woman Nabbed For DUI, Resisting Arrest, Police Say New Canaan Woman Nabbed For DUI, Resisting Arrest, Police Say
New Canaan Woman Nabbed For DUI, Resisting Arrest, Police Say A Fairfield County woman was charged with DUI after an officer saw her allegedly running a stop sign and then smelled of alcohol. The incident occurred in New Canaan around 5 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 25, in the area of Ponus Ridge Road and Davenport Ridge Road. According to Lt. Marc DeFelice of the New Canaan Police, an officer on patrol observed a vehicle fail to obey a stop sign. The officer conducted a traffic stop and identified the operator as Emily Zuwlyya, age 46, of New Canaan.  While speaking with Zuwiyya, the officer detected an odor of alcohol emitting from her breath. DeFe…
New England Native, Second Astronaut Will Hitch Ride On SpaceX Capsule Amid Starliner Troubles New England Native, Second Astronaut Will Hitch Ride On SpaceX Capsule Amid Starliner Troubles
New England Native, Second Astronaut Will Hitch Ride On SpaceX Capsule Amid Starliner Troubles After spending months in limbo aboard the International Space Station, an astronaut from Massachusetts finally has a return date to Earth. Pilot Suni Williams, from the town of Needham in Norfolk County, and commander Butch Wilmore will abandon Boeing’s troubled Starliner and instead hitch a ride on a SpaceX Dragon capsule in February 2025, NASA confirmed Saturday, Aug. 24. The stunning decision capped off 11 weeks of uncertainty after NASA discovered numerous helium leaks and malfunctions with Starliner’s thrusters following its launch from Florida's Space Coast on Wednesday, June 5. Ea…
Fighter, Actor Ronda Rousey Apologizes For Sandy Hook Conspiracy Post Fighter, Actor Ronda Rousey Apologizes For Sandy Hook Conspiracy Post
Fighter, Actor Ronda Rousey Apologizes For Sandy Hook Conspiracy Post Former UFC champion and actor Ronda Rousey said she "deserve(s) to be hated and detested" for posting a video that cast doubt on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting more than a decade ago. Rousey posted a lengthy apology on her social media platforms saying 11 years ago she made the most "regrettable decision" of her life when she watched a Sandy Hook conspiracy video and reposted it.  Though she took the video down before it got major news coverage, the former Olympian said she has regretted it ever since. She said she posted the conspiracy video in January 2013, a month after&n…
FDA Approves Updated COVID-19 Vaccines: Here's When They Will Be Available FDA Approves Updated COVID-19 Vaccines: Here's When They Will Be Available
FDA Approves Updated Covid-19 Vaccines: Here's When They Will Be Available The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved new COVID-19 vaccines.It marks the third time the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna have been updated to match circulating strains since the original shot. The shots should be available within days, the FDA said in making the announcement Thursday afternoon, Aug. 22. The new vaccines have been updated with a formula to more closely target currently circulating variants and provide better protection against serious consequences of COVID, including hospitalization and death. “Vaccination continues to be the cornerstone of COVID-19 preventi…
Powerful Attorney With CT Roots, Wife Missing After Luxury Yacht Capsizes In Italy: Reports Powerful Attorney With CT Roots, Wife Missing After Luxury Yacht Capsizes In Italy: Reports
Powerful Attorney With CT Roots, Wife Missing After Luxury Yacht Capsizes In Italy: Reports A New York attorney with Connecticut roots and his wife are among seven people missing after the yacht they were on capsized early this week in Italy, according to multiple reports. Christopher Morvillo, age 59, who attended the Canterbury School in Litchfield County, Connecticut, and later Fordham University, along with his wife, Neda Morvillo, age 57, are among six people who are unaccounted after the 184-foot luxury yacht overturned off the coast of Sicily on Monday morning, Aug. 19, according to ABC 7. Twenty-two people were on board the ship at the time of the incident near Palermo, ac…
Blue Supermoon: What You Need To Know About Rare Lunar Event Blue Supermoon: What You Need To Know About Rare Lunar Event
Blue Supermoon: What You Need To Know About Rare Lunar Event There's an out-of-this-world lunar event set to begin this week.  From Monday, Aug. 19, through Wednesday, Aug. 21, the moon will appear bigger and brighter in the night sky than normal. It's called the supermoon. It's the first one of the year, but that's not why this one is special.  A supermoon occurs when the moon is full and closest to Earth in its orbit, according to NASA. That closeness makes the rocky satellite appear 15 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter.  What makes August's supermoon so unique is that it's a blue moon. No, the light of the moon won't change co…
World War II Era Letter In Bottle Discovered By Woman During Tropical Storm Debby World War II Era Letter In Bottle Discovered By Woman During Tropical Storm Debby
World War II Era Letter In Bottle Discovered By Woman During Tropical Storm Debby Shortly after Debby made landfall along Florida's west coast as a Category 1 hurricane earlier this month, it produced something no forecaster — or anyone else — could have predicted. Suzanne Flament Smith, age 46, of Tampa, discovered it on Wednesday, Aug. 7, in the form of a World War II-era artifact. She said she found it while collecting debris in the city of Safety Harbor. It was a bottle sealed by a cork. Inside was a handwritten letter from a location in Virginia over 800 miles away near Virginia Beach. Above is a closer view of the letterhead, which reads, "United States Navy Amphi…
Support Pours In For Family Of Swimming Pool Company Van Driver Killed In CT Crash Support Pours In For Family Of Swimming Pool Company Van Driver Killed In CT Crash
Support Pours In For Family Of Swimming Pool Company Van Driver Killed In CT Crash Community members are coming together to support the family of a 37-year-old man killed in a crash on a busy Connecticut roadway.  The effort came following a crash in Tolland County on Tuesday, Aug. 13, when two vehicles collided on Route 32 (River Road) in the town of Willington near the intersection with Battye Road, according to Connecticut State Police.  Willington resident Fred Viets, who had been driving a Ram van owned by Vernon-based Juliano's Pools, LLC, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, police said.  Earlier Report - 37-Year-…
First Human West Nile Case Of Season Confirmed In Connecticut First Human West Nile Case Of Season Confirmed In Connecticut
First Human West Nile Case Of Season Confirmed In Connecticut It's time to protect yourself from mosquitoes, as the first case of the West Nile virus in a person in the state has been confirmed.  On Friday, Aug. 16, the Connecticut Department of Public Health announced that a New Haven County resident had tested positive for the virus. A woman between 60–69 became ill during the first week of August with a WNV infection and has since recovered, the department said.  “Symptoms include fever, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, rash, or gastrointestinal symptoms for non-neuroinvasive disease, while neuroinvasive signs and symptoms can include high…
COVID-19: Surge In Summer Cases Sparks Concern COVID-19: Surge In Summer Cases Sparks Concern
Covid-19: Surge In Summer Cases Sparks Concern A surge in COVID-19 cases in the United States and around the globe is sparking concern among health officials who are warning that more severe variants of the virus may be coming. “COVID-19 is still very much with us and circulating in all countries," Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove of the World Health Organization said in a news conference last week. “Data from our sentinel-based surveillance system across 84 countries reports that the percent of positive tests for SARS-CoV-2 has been rising over several weeks." Wastewater surveillance suggests that the circulation of COVID is two to 20 times…
Disney Says Husband Of Late NY Doctor Can’t Sue Over Allergy Death Because Of Disney+ Account Disney Says Husband Of Late NY Doctor Can’t Sue Over Allergy Death Because Of Disney+ Account
Disney Says Husband Of Late NY Doctor Can’t Sue Over Allergy Death Because Of Disney+ Account Disney is raising eyebrows with its seemingly novel defense against a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widower of a late New York doctor and Jersey City, NJ resident. Kanokporn Tangsuan, who grew up on Long Island in Bellerose and practiced family medicine at NYU Langone Hospital in Mineola, died at the age of 42 on Oct. 5, 2023 while on a family vacation to Disney World. According to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by her husband, Jeffrey Piccolo, the couple decided to eat dinner at the park’s Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant. They repeatedly warned their waiter that Tangsuan was…
NY County's Mask Ban Signed Into Law; Here's Possible Sentence For Violations NY County's Mask Ban Signed Into Law; Here's Possible Sentence For Violations
NY County's Mask Ban Signed Into Law; Here's Possible Sentence For Violations It’s now against the law to cover your face in public in this New York county. On Long Island, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed the “Mask Transparency Act” into law during a ceremony held Wednesday morning, Aug. 14. It came a little more than a week after the Republican-controlled county legislature passed the act by a vote of 12-0 on Monday, Aug. 5. All seven Democrats abstained from voting. Earlier Report: Nassau County Criminalizes Mask Wearing Amid Rise In Covid-19 Cases The bill makes it a misdemeanor for anyone 16 and older to wear a face mask in public spaces in…