Officials in affluent Woodbridge, Connecticut, have approved a controversial 96-unit apartment complex, with 15% designated as affordable housing, sparking traffic and school enrolment fears.
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Police in Stamford, Connecticut, discovered a decomposed body and a cache of explosives after a deadly standoff with an armed man. Read the full investigation details.
Thomas Peters, 22, wins a tight election to become Durham's treasurer, overseeing millions in taxpayer funds. A generational shift in local politics for the typically Republican town. Read the full story.
A tense standoff in Stamford, Connecticut saw an armed suspect fire over 30 shots at police. SWAT teams and an armoured vehicle were deployed to the residential street. Read the latest.
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A married school assistant faces life for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy after sending him thousands of texts and gifts. Read the shocking details of the case.
Tyree Smith, the 'Connecticut Cannibal' who killed a homeless man and ate his brain, has been granted conditional release. Read the shocking details of the case.
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Alyson Cranick, 44, pleaded guilty to federal charges after supplying an 11-year-old with caffeine to keep him awake for sexual assaults. She faces life imprisonment.
Tyree Smith, found not guilty by insanity for 2011 hatchet murder and cannibalism of Angel Gonzalez, describes eating organs while drinking Sake. Read the shocking details.
An 11-year-old girl, Jacqueline 'Mimi' Torres-Garcia, died from starvation after being restrained with zip ties. Her body was found a year later in a plastic bin, sparking a murder investigation.
An 11-year-old Connecticut girl died from starvation after being denied food for two weeks. Her mother has pleaded not guilty to murder. Read the full story.
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A former Connecticut sergeant pleads guilty to mistreating Richard 'Randy' Cox, left paralyzed in a police van. Three other officers face trial in a case prompting major reforms.
A Novo Nordisk executive was brutally stabbed to death in a random attack outside a Connecticut grocery store, while his wife miraculously survived the same frenzied assault that left multiple victims.
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The decades-long legal saga continues as Michael Skakel, relative of the Kennedy dynasty, has his conviction overturned in the brutal 1975 murder of teenager Martha Moxley, reigniting one of America's most infamous cold cases.
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A bitter financial dispute over sewage treatment costs has erupted between Watertown and Waterbury, Connecticut, threatening local services and revealing deep tensions between the neighbouring communities.
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