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Iconic CT Seafood Eatery Reveals Closing Date After Nearly 30 Years In Business Iconic CT Seafood Eatery Reveals Closing Date After Nearly 30 Years In Business
Iconic CT Seafood Eatery Reveals Closing Date After Nearly 30 Years In Business An iconic seafood restaurant in Connecticut has officially announced its closing date after being in business for almost 30 years.  Chowder Pot of Hartford will be closing for good on Saturday, March 25, the restaurant said in a Facebook post on Monday, Feb. 13. This comes after the owners originally revealed that Chowder Pot would be closing on Tuesday, Jan. 3.  "It has been bittersweet since announcing our closing," the Chowder Pot wrote on Facebook. "While it has been a good run at this location it is time to say goodbye and look to do something different."  UPDATE TO ANNOUNCEMENT …

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by David Cifarelli
Police & Fire
Impaired CT Woman Caught Driving Wrong Way In Construction Zone, Police Say Impaired CT Woman Caught Driving Wrong Way In Construction Zone, Police Say
Impaired CT Woman Caught Driving Wrong Way In Construction Zone, Police Say A Connecticut woman was busted allegedly driving drunk or high on drugs in the wrong direction in a construction zone on Route 9. The incident took place in Farmington around 12:40 a.m., on Wednesday, Aug. 31. According to state police, Mindy Lee Rivera, age 37, of New Britain was arrested after troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash on Route 9 South where I-84 East and West merge.  Upon arrival, troopers found two vehicles in the left lane adjacent to the construction pattern just north of the Route 9 turnaround and Rivera standing in between the left and right lanes on Route 9 So…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Man Accused Of Operating Remote-Controlled Car On Busy CT Roadway Man Accused Of Operating Remote-Controlled Car On Busy CT Roadway
Man Accused Of Operating Remote-Controlled Car On Busy CT Roadway A man has been accused of operating a remote-controlled vehicle on a busy roadway in the region. Connecticut State Police troopers in Hartford received multiple reports of a pedestrian operating the remote-controlled car on Route 9 in the New Britain/Berlin area at around 7 a.m. Saturday, July, 16. Callers reported the man running across the northbound lanes of travel onto the southbound lanes, operating the car, police said.  A responding trooper located and approached an occupied vehicle, parked on the Route 372 westbound entrance ramp to Route 9, in the town of Berlin, and observe…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
CT State Police Trooper Struck By Wrong-Way Driver In Head-On Crash CT State Police Trooper Struck By Wrong-Way Driver In Head-On Crash
CT State Police Trooper Struck By Wrong-Way Driver In Head-On Crash A Connecticut State Police trooper was struck by a wrong-way driver in a head-on crash overnight. It happened in Middlesex County just after 4 a.m. Saturday, April 16 on southbound Route 9 in the area of Exit 19 in Cromwell. The assigned state police cruiser crashed with the wrong-way vehicle, a 2016 Honda Accord, as it was traveling northbound in the left lane of the southbound side.  The driver of the Honda, identified as Guy Raffles of Meriden, age 65, stated he was not injured and was asked to perform a series of field sobriety tests, which he failed to pe…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
Woman Killed, Toddlers Hospitalized After Single-Vehicle Rollover Crash, CT State Police Say Woman Killed, Toddlers Hospitalized After Single-Vehicle Rollover Crash, CT State Police Say
Woman Killed, Toddlers Hospitalized After Single-Vehicle Rollover Crash, CT State Police Say A woman was killed and two young children were hospitalized after a single-vehicle rollover crash in Connecticut. It happened just before 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10 in Hartford County, in Berlin. A Chrysler Town & Country LX was traveling on Route 9 southbound, just south of Exit 23, in the left lane of two, Connecticut State Police said.  For an unknown reason, the driver lost control of her vehicle, said police.  The vehicle then traveled to the left and struck the metal beam guide rail located on the median, according to police.  It continued along the g…

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by Joe Lombardi