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B4BC's new breast health app provides a self-exam tutorial and wellness information.

Erica Bartol is a registered nurse, so she considers it ironic that it took a TV show to remind her to do monthly breast examinations.

State police on Saturday released a photo and information on a suspect in the killing of a man and serious wounding of another in Willington.

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only changing the configuration of offices as employers seek to safeguard the health of their workers, but it also is raising questions about the long-term place of the office in commerce.

Connecticut outdoors aficionados lost no time stepping out into the sunshine and hitting the trails Sunday morning, prompting state officials to close Sleeping Giant State Park and Southford Falls State Park just after 9 a.m. Sunday morning.

State Police are searching Osbornedale State Park, Derby for 23-year Peter Manfredonia, the UConn senior suspected in the killing of a 62-year-old man in Willington on Friday.

The lawyer for the family of suspected killer Peter Manfredonia on Monday evening apologized to families affected by their son's crimes and urged their son to surrender to police. The lawyer, Michael Dolan of Hamden, also said that Manfredonia does have a history of mental illness.

Hartford police say they are investigating a shooting early Tuesday that happened near the West Hartford line.

Officials are investigating an explosion and fire that injured one person and caused serious damage to a Berlin house.

The head of a Manchester home-based ministry, who already faces charges of assaulting a baby, was charged recently with sexually abusing an older boy.

A suspected Hartford drug dealer had access to two "ghost guns" and high-capacity magazines when he was arrested Saturday, the second recovery of untraceable weapons in the capital city in as many weeks.

A New Canaan woman survived a violent attack and attempted kidnapping Monday afternoon by a Norwalk man who ran her over with his car and tried to drown her in a river.

Peter Manfredonia, the UConn student suspected of killing two people and kidnapping a third before fleeing Connecticut, took an Uber to an East Stroudsburg, Pa. Walmart and disappeared down some railroad tracks behind the building, Pennsylvania police say. Authorities continue the manhunt for Peter Manfredonia.

One man was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon in Hartford’s South End, just before another person led police on a multi-town chase that ended back near the original crime scene.

A Manchester man who crashed his car Monday evening in South Windsor was wanted for a 2001 sexual assault in Massachusetts, according to police.

A driver died after a two-car crash in Bristol Monday, police say.

A multi-state manhunt for Peter Manfredonia, a 23-year-old Newtown man wanted for two homicides in Connecticut, ended Wednesday night in Hagerstown, Md., when a Connecticut state police detective caught him during a foot chase and took him into custody at gunpoint.

A home DNA kit helped lead Vernon and Manchester police to a man they say raped four women between 2001 and 2008 in Manchester and Vernon. Police obtained a warrant for their suspect’s DNA a decade ago, but recently got a break thanks to the popularity of home DNA tests.

Naugatuck police have identified two additional suspects wanted in connection with a brazen, mid-day home invasion and robbery Monday on Horton Hill Road.

The regional trash-to-energy and recycling plant in Hartford’s South Meadows is abandoning its effort to renovate the aging facility, with officials of the quasi-state system saying a desperate lack of state funding is now forcing a return to trucking garbage out of state.

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