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Youth football team in Southbury, Conn. mourns loss of assistant coach
A youth football team from Southbury is mourning the loss of their assistant coach. Mark Oesau, 53, died unexpectedly last Saturday. For four years, he helped coach middle school students from Southbury and Middlebury, including his own 12-year-old son, Gibson Oesau. On Sunday, less than 24 hours after his father’s passing, Oesau was back on the field and scored his first-ever...
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13,000 flags placed at State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown, Conn.
Every year on Memorial Day Weekend, people come out to the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown to honor those who gave their lives for our country. “Everybody that didn’t come back, just thank you. Just thank you,” said Joel Cabral, of Newington. Cabral served in the Connecticut National Guard for seven years and says he regularly attends this event....
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Watch live: Crews use shears to break apart bridge on I-95 in Conn.
Crews are making significant progress demolishing parts of a bridge on Interstate 95 in Norwalk after a fiery crash on Thursday. Those crews are expected to be there through the weekend to get that part of I-95 back open. The demolition started at 8:30 a.m. on Friday and again on Saturday. You can watch it live here. The CT Department of...
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Woman found dead during mobile home fire in Vernon, Conn.
Police have identified the woman who died in a fire at a mobile home in Vernon early Sunday morning. Multiple 911 calls came in about a fire at a mobile home on Middle Terrace around 2:43 a.m. Fire Marshal Dan Wasilewski says first arriving units found a mobile home on 10 Middle Terrace engulfed in flames. “They made several attempts…
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Terminally ill Connecticut woman ends her life on her own terms, in Vermont
“I feel grateful.” That’s how Jacob Shannon feels after saying goodbye to his 76-year-old mother Lynda Bluestein on Thursday. “She was going through a lot of pain, and that was hard to watch,” Shannon said. Shannon’s mother was diagnosed with stage four ovarian and fallopian tube cancer in February 2021. He said the constant pain and suffering turned her...
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Thousands participate in 30th annual Hartford Marathon in Conn.
It was a big day in the Capitol City on Saturday as tens of thousands of people came out for the 30th annual Hartford Marathon. Those who ran the 5K, half marathon and full marathon were quick to hit the buzzer at the finish line. Bill Galpin, of Litchfield, said he has been running for many years, but this was…
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Hungry Bear Steals 60 Cupcakes from Connecticut Bakery
A bear broke into a bakery in Avon Wednesday morning, helped itself to 60 cupcakes and made a “bluff charge” toward an employee. It happened at Taste By Spellbound on West Main Street in Avon. The kitchen supervisor for the bakery said she was putting baked goods in a vehicle in the garage area at the back of the bakery…
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Army Father Comes Home for Christmas, Surprises Son
Christmas came a little early this year for a Connecticut grade schooler when his military father paid him a surprise visit.
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Memorial Honoring Victims of Sandy Hook Opens Nearly 10 Years After the Massacre
A new memorial honoring the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting officially opened to the public on Sunday. Plans for the memorial began in 2013, one year after the tragedy. Hundreds of volunteers, contractors, staff, officials and survivors worked together to create it. The memorial is a large circular structure with a sycamore tree in the center and…
