Waterbury

A New York driver who reported his car stolen with his child inside in Connecticut ended up under arrest himself Friday after police said he lied about the child in hopes of getting a faster response. Waterbury police say it happened shortly before 9 a.m. Friday at a gas station. Police say the driver told 911 that his 11-year-old was...

A Waterbury police officer has been fired after an Internal Affairs investigation into his conduct during an encounter with a citizen while directing traffic last month.

The Naugatuck father accused of killing his 11-month-old daughter has been taken into custody, police said. Waterbury Police arrested Christopher Francisquini Friday afternoon at about 3 p.m. Francisquini is accused of killing his baby daughter Camilla Francisquini. He had been on the run for two weeks and was taken into custody in the area of 400 Grand St. in Waterbury….

A mother who lost one of her sons in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre testified Tuesday that her biggest fear is that people who believe the shooting was a hoax will harm her other son, who survived the attack at his school. Nicole Hockley and her former husband, Ian Hockley, were the latest family members of the 26 victims of…

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones made his first appearance Tuesday at a trial in Connecticut that will determine how much in damages he should pay for telling his audience of millions the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

A lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars empire acknowledged on the witness stand Wednesday that the show and website spread falsehoods about the Sandy Hook school shooting. “I don’t think that we disagree that there were false statements made,” Brittany Paz testified at a civil trial involving Jones’ claims that the nation’s deadliest school shooting was staged as...

A sister of a teacher killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre and an FBI agent who responded to the school shooting became overwhelmed with emotion Tuesday as they described what it has been like to be accused of being crisis actors by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and others. Carlee Soto Parisi and FBI agent William Aldenberg were the first…

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who for years claimed the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown was a hoax, is set to go on trial in Waterbury this week. This comes one month after a jury in Texas ordered Jones to pay nearly $50 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child killed in the shooting….

A Hartford Police detective is accused of shooting a man in Waterbury over the weekend while he was off-duty. Police were called to the area of Kingsley Court and Society Hill Road shortly before 5 a.m. on Sunday after getting a report of a gunshot victim. When officers arrived, they said they found a 37-year-old man with a gunshot wound….

A New Jersey man is dead after a shooting at a nightclub in Waterbury early Saturday morning that also injured two other people. Police have identified the man who died as 38-year-old Adam Bellamy, of New Jersey. Officers were called to the Lit Ultra Lounge on West Main Street shortly before 2 a.m. after getting a shots fired complaint. When…

The owner of a restaurant in Waterbury who is accused of fatally shooting a man during a fight early Saturday morning has been arrested and is being charged with murder, according to police. Officers were called to Mikey’s Jamaican Restaurant on East Main Street around 1:40 a.m. after getting a shots fired complaint. When police arrived, they said they...

A woman is seriously injured and two men have minor injuries after a wrong-way crash on Route 8 south in Waterbury late Monday night. State police said a Honda HRV was traveling the wrong way on Route 8 south near exit 34 around 11:52 p.m. when it collided with a Honda Pilot. The female driver of the Honda HRV suffered…

Police have arrested a man in connection to a shooting that injured a 2-year-old boy in Waterbury last week. Investigators said they identified 20-year-old Kharis Samuels, of Waterbury, as a suspect and obtained a search warrant for him. On Monday, Samuels turned himself in at Waterbury Police Department. Samuels is facing charges including assault, illegal discharge of a firearm, reckless…

Two people are dead after a house fire in Waterbury on Tuesday morning. Officers were called to a multi-family home on Arch Street around 3:45 a.m. after getting a report of an active structure fire. According to investigators, two people have died. Police said both people appear to be adults. Their identities have not been released. A photo from an…

Police are searching for a person of interest who is wanted for questioning after a woman was struck and killed by a stray bullet while in her home in Waterbury over the weekend. The woman who was struck is the mother of a Puerto Rican Olympian and she was sewing in a front room of her home when the shooting…

Seven Waterbury police officers were injured over the weekend when a woman struck eight police vehicles and they have been released from the hospital, police said. While they are out of the hospital. they are on workers’ compensation, police said. On Monday afternoon, police released police body camera video. Waterbury Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo commended the officers for how they…

A 22-year-old woman has died after she was found inside of a vehicle in Lakewood Lake in Waterbury early Sunday morning. Officers responded to Lakewood Road around 3:45 a.m. after getting a report of a vehicle submerged in the water of Lakewood Park. Dispatchers a utility company worker who was working on a utility pole because of a power outage…

A Connecticut man who allegedly struck two people in Brooklyn with a stolen vehicle late Friday is also suspected of stealing another vehicle just the day before, according to authorities. Kahlil Ivey was arrested in Brooklyn on Thursday on charges of grand larceny and possession of stolen property based on a reported car theft out of Waterbury, and he was…

A Connecticut man has been arrested for the second time in just a few days for stealing a car. Authorities say he crashed one of those vehicles into two people in Coney Island.

A New York man has been charged with killing a man in Waterbury last month