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A former University of Connecticut student has been sentenced to 55 years in prison in a 2020 kidnapping and murder case. He is set to be sentenced Thursday on an additional murder charge.

The Department of Children and Families (DCF) told NBC Connecticut that they recently paid a visit to several Derby children that died in a New York car crash. DCF Commissioner Vanessa Dorantes said the department was asked by New York Child Protective Services to perform a “courtesy visit” to interview the children based on an alleged incident that happened in…

Officials in Westchester County have identified the five kids from Derby who were killed in a crash in New York over the weekend. Westchester County Police said 16-year-old Malik Smith was driving a Nissan Rogue on the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale, New York, around 12:20 a.m. on Sunday when the vehicle left the road, struck a boulder and a…

Connecticut authorities were working Thursday to confirm that convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Steven Hoffenberg was the person found dead in an apartment in Derby earlier this week. Lt. Justin Stanko, of Derby police, said evidence at the scene — including a car, cell phone and a medical record — all pointed to the person being Hoffenberg. But…