Local News

Video - Storm warnings as snow bears down on mid-Atlantic

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:31:42 EST

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A major storm moving up the Atlantic Coast on the last shopping weekend before Christmas threatened to shut down much of the region as officials warned of up to 20 inches of snow

Cheshire tops Staples in overtime to win Class LL championship

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:46:25 EST

WEST HAVEN -- The magic has run out for the Staples football team.

UPDATE - Darien teacher charged with indecency suspended with pay

Wed, 9 Dec 2009 06:03:56 EST

DARIEN -- The Darien High School teacher cited for public indecency at a Norwalk gym last month has been suspended with pay pending the outcome of an investigation by the school district.

North Stamford woman won't be charged in chimpanzee case

Mon, 7 Dec 2009 21:22:28 EST

STAMFORD -- The state will not pursue any charges against a North Stamford woman whose pet chimpanzee savagely mauled her employee and friend earlier this year, prosecutors announced at a press

Sunday CIAC State Championship Live Scoring Updates

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:39:10 EST

Can't make it to the CIAC state football championship games? Stay with us right here. The Connecticut Post, Stamford Advocate and Danbury News-Times staff are all over the state championship games,

Live Updates: Thanksgiving Day high school football scoring blog

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:48:33 EST

Welcome to our weekly live high school football scoring update feature, Thanksgiving Day edition. If you can't get to the games, but want to follow everything that's happening across the Connecticut

MVP Elser's pick delivers Pomperaug an SWC title

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:44:31 EST

SOUTHBURY -- The SWC football championship came down to this Thursday night: Masuk, trailing 31-23 with two minutes left in the game, had driven to the Pomperaug 12-yard line.

Hundreds attend vigil outside Lieberman's home over health care

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:02:34 EST

STAMFORD -- Quietly holding candles, hundreds of clergymen, congregants and reform advocates lined the sidewalks outside Independent U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's Stamford home Sunday night in a show of support for universal health care.

Doctor uses wrong man's sperm to produce twins

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:52:19 EST

Hundreds of women have trusted him with their bodies and their dreams of motherhood. Many depend on him as their doctor today. But for nearly seven years, none of Dr.

Tapes released of fatal crash between Milford cop, Orange teens

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:46:47 EST

"Can you send rescue in front of Best Buy? There's an accident with injuries involving one of our officers ... One person thrown from the other car, and one trapped in the car.

Video: Firefighters, others race to top of Trump Parc for charity

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:56:56 EST

STAMFORD -- At the 35th floor in Trump Parc, the luxury high-rise on Washington Boulevard that dwarfs every other building in Stamford, the hallway next to the elevators was filled with red-faced, panting, sweating and coughing firefighters and civilians.

Shelton candidates debate, without Lauretti

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:21:41 EDT

SHELTON -- In what may have been the only debate of the election season, candidates for the Board of Education, as well as two of the three mayoral candidates, hashed out the issues Wednesday at a

With four mayoral candidates, Milford voters get more choices

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:20:17 EDT

MILFORD -- An old proverb says, "Be careful what you wish for.'' Several times in the past 20 years -- and as recently as 2005 -- voters here had only one candidate for mayor.