Amanda Pitts

The man accused of brutally beating a family member and her two young children with a baseball bat in Bridgeport last week appeared in court for the third time in less than a week on new charges.

Monday marked one year since the terror attack against Israel and the start of Israel’s war with Hamas. Across the state of Connecticut, memorials and remembrance ceremonies were held to honor the victims. In West Hartford, the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford held a remembrance event at Beth El Temple. The event was sold out and the federation said roughly…

The stepfather of a young boy who died after crashing his go-kart at a Meriden park in April is now facing charges in connection to his death. Steven Stolfi, 30, was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a child this week, six months after the tragic crash. It was early April when Stolfi and his stepchildren, 6-year-old…

The cleanup is just beginning for those impacted by Hurricane Milton, and we checked in Thursday with Connecticut natives who now live in Florida.

The mother of a Bloomfield woman killed in a crash on I-91 last week by an alleged impaired driver is calling on police to charge the accused with a more serious punishment. Jada Upshaw, 26, a soon-to-be mother of two was killed in a three-car crash on Friday, October 4, just before 9 p.m. Her mother, Kimberly Upshaw, tells NBC…

It’s one of the oldest documented parts of our state’s history, and also one of the darkest. The Connecticut Witch Trials occurred from 1647 to 1663, more than four decades before the trials in Salem, Massachusetts. “The witch trials in Connecticut were extremely deadly. The first seven people who were accused and then indicted were convicted and subsequently hanged. Seven…

The City of Torrington is dealing with an influx of unwanted guests – rats – that have terrorized some neighborhoods in recent months.

The family of Robert “Sharkey” Sharkevich Sr. said they'll remember the 66-year-old as a hero who touched countless lives and was meant to be a firefighter.

A high-profile murder case from 2015 was appealed to the Connecticut Supreme Court on Wednesday. The appeal was heard by six justices and a room full of UConn law students as part of the court’s traveling “On Circuit” program. Richard Dabate’s defense team argued that his client didn’t get a fair trial in 2022 when he was found guilty of…

A New Britain man charged with seriously injuring a Farmington police officer back in 2021 while fleeing a scene was sentenced in Hartford Superior Court on Thursday. Pedro Acevedo was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty in June to charges of assault in the first degree, assault on a public safety officer, and evading responsibility resulting in…