Brigitte Ruthman

With 50,000 acres of farmland now under its protection, the state's 45 year-old Farmland Preservation program -- the oldest of its kind nationwide -- isn't done yet.The State Bond Commission last week approved nearly $9.4 million that will go toward the protection of another 10 farms statewide.In Li

TORRINGTON – If unseating an incumbent is a challenge, Democrat Paul Honig of Harwinton didn’t know it.

NEW MILFORD – Just teenagers when they were convicted and sentenced to spend most of their lives in prison, Shawn Henning and Ricky Birch each were offered $2.5 million by the town of New Milford to settle a wrongful imprisonment lawsuit and avoid a potentially even more costly jury verdict in federal court.

TORRINGTON – The driver of a car that struck and killed a bicyclist on Winsted Road in the city on June 2, 2023, admitted guilt to negligent homicide Thursday in Torrington Superior Court while accepting a plea deal that avoids prison time.

TORRINGTON-In an alcohol-fueled rage, according to testimony Monday in Superior Court, Aaron Vella-Whelan fought with Jonathan Todd and Vella Whelan’s wife and was stabbed nearly to death.

TORRINGTON - A Meriden man accused of depositing a fake U.S. Treasury check into his Thomaston Savings Bank account and drawing funds from it was allowed to go free Tuesday at his arraignment in Torrington Superior Court while his case is pending.Police and bank investigators allege Adrian Ibarrondo

TORRINGTON – Defendant Jonathan Todd told police in an interview in 2022 he didn’t want to die when he stabbed Aaron Vella-Whelan five times to stop his aggression, nearly killing him.

HARWINTON — He died doing what he loved most, according to his obituary: Being in the outdoors.

TORRINGTON — Released early from a five-year prison term for stalking, burglary and malicious voyeurism after he installed spy cameras in a Salisbury woman’s home to capture bathroom and bedroom images, Christopher Pelgrift was back behind bars this week on a $500,000 bond.

TORRINGTON — Nearly two years after he crashed head-on into a car carrying an ice hockey player and his grandfather, killing them both, Glen Ragin Jr. was back in Torrington Superior Court on Tuesday as his manslaughter case moves forward.