Connecticut police officer hugs supporters, appears in court in fatal shooting of Black man

HARTFORD, Conn. — A white police officer in Connecticut who repeatedly shot a Black man suffering a mental health crisis while his colleagues tried to defuse the situation made his first court appearance Friday on a manslaughter charge. Joseph Magnano did not speak during the brief hearing in Superior Court. He later hugged officers who … Read more

40 years after woman murdered in Virginia, DNA leads to arrest in Connecticut

A Connecticut man was arrested for the decades-old rape and murder of a Virginia woman after forensic evidence offered new leads in the cold case, police said Wednesday.  The body of 22-year-old Roberta Walls was found in a field in Virginia Beach on the morning of May 15, 1986, the Virginia Beach Police Department said … Read more

Man with AR-style pistol arrested at Aetna’s Connecticut headquarters without incident

HARTFORD, Conn. — A man carrying a backpack with an AR-style pistol inside was arrested Thursday after walking into health insurer Aetna’s headquarters in Connecticut, police said. Security guards detained the man without incident shortly after 10 a.m., within 3 minutes after he entered the Hartford building. They held him until city police officers arrived, … Read more

DOJ sues Connecticut, New Haven over sanctuary policies: ‘Open defiance’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Connecticut and its city of New Haven, arguing that their sanctuary policies interfere with federal enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws. The lawsuit names Connecticut, its Gov. Ned Lamont and Attorney General William Tong, as well as New … Read more

Connecticut Dems demand IDs to recycle cans but reject GOP efforts to verify citizenship at polls

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Connecticut Democrats recently rushed through an emergency anti-fraud law requiring bottle redemption centers to collect a copy of a person’s driver’s license when they cash in more than 1,000 cans or bottles in a day — a document demand that Republicans say undercuts the party’s attacks on … Read more

Police video shows Vince McMahon’s 100 mph car crash in Connecticut

Newly released police video shows former WWE CEO Vince McMahon’s high-speed car crash in Connecticut last summer and reveals that a state trooper was trying to catch up to him to pull him over at the time. McMahon, now 80, was driving his 2024 Bentley Continental GT on the Merritt Parkway in Westport on July … Read more